# 2015 in Lithuania

Events in the year 2015 in Lithuania.

## Incumbents

* President: Dalia Grybauskaitė
* Prime Minister: Algirdas Butkevičius

## Events
### January

* 1 January - Lithuania adopts the Euro and joins Eurozone.
* 1 January - first commercial operations in Klaipėda LNG FSRU.
* 1 January - National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania was established.
* 1 January - Suicide Prevention Centre of Lithuania was established.
* 15 January - a big storm left 15,000 people without electricity, mostly in Klaipėda county.
* 16 January - second honorary consulate of Estonia in Lithuania was opened in the city of Kaunas.
* 26 January - Israel opened its embassy in Vilnius.

### February

* 6 February - honorary consulate of India in Lithuania was opened in the capital city of Vilnius.
* 9 February - Aistė Diržiūtė becomes the first Lithuanian actress to win Shooting Stars Award.
* 28 February - Lithuania signs a trade agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from the United States in a move aimed at reducing heavy dependence on Russian gas deliveries.

### March

* 1 March - Municipal elections held in Lithuania with first ever direct mayoral elections held together.
* 18 March - Polish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce was established.
* 19 March - Lithuanian Parliament Seimas voted in favour of conscription restitution.
* 20 March - NATO general Jean-Paul Palomeros has signed the NATO-Lithuanian agreement on the legal status of NATO command and control centres in Lithuania.
* 25 March - Lithuania's Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius opposed of proposed same-sex partnerships legalization.
* 29 March - archaeologists announced about the thousand-year-old grave discovery near the village of Kvietiniai, Klaipėda District Municipality.

### April

* 9 April - Lithuania was invited to start accession talks with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
* 13 April - Darius Jauniškis appointed as the head of the State Security Department.
* 14 April - International Monetary Fund (IMF) classified Lithuania as advanced economy.
* 17 April - Opened a new Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
* 23 April - Lithuania banned wearing separate elements of military uniforms and insignia in public.
* 28 April - Lithuania opens honorary consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

### May

* 4 May - Biggest stadium in the country - Žalgiris Stadium was sold for redevelopment and eventually de-establishment.
* 7 May - President Dalia Grybauskaitė rejected Vydas Gedvilas as candidate for education minister.
* 9 May - Moody‘s upgraded Lithuanian credit rating to A3.
* 15 May - district heating plant opened in Elektrėnai, that is operating on biofeuls.
* 16 May - 2 Lithuanian pilots died in aviation accident when Klaipėda Avialines plane Antonov An-2 dropped down to the Baltic Sea.
* 23 May - Air Lituanica, Lithuanian airline owned by the municipality of Vilnius, has announced that it is stopping operations.
* 26 May - Vilnius Intermodal Terminal was opened.
* 27 May - Audronė Pitrėnienė appointed as education and science minister of Lithuania.

### June

* 1 June - Lithuanian General Consulate opened in Los Angeles, United States
* 1 June - Laima Jurevičienė appointed as country's new ambassador to the Council of Europe.
* 7 June - Klaipėda Port announces start of international container distribution centre.
* 9 June - cable laying works of NordBalt were completed.
* 18 June - in Batumi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili opened a second Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Georgia.

## Deaths

* 29 March - Petras Dirgėla, writer and recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize in 2003.
* 3 April - Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas, politician and signer of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
* 6 April - Romualdas Ozolas, politician and signer of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
* 6 October - Stasys Povilaitis, variety songs singer, maestro.
* 8 October - Galina Dauguvietytė, actor, TV director.