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These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2004.
Events
January
February
- February 1- Jörg Schild becomes president of the government of Basel-Stadt.
- February 3 – John Edwards wins a primary in South Carolina with 46% of the vote. Wesley Clark wins the Oklahoma primary with 30% of the vote. John Kerry wins primaries and caucuses in Arizona with 43% of the vote, Delaware with 50% of the vote, Missouri with 51% of the vote, New Mexico with 42% of the vote, and North Dakota with 50% of the vote.
- February 3 – Joe Lieberman quits the Presidential race after poor results in primaries and caucuses in South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, North Dakota, and New Mexico.
- February 3 – Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes prime minister of the Faroe Islands.
- February 4 – Andrei Stratan is appointed foreign minister of Moldova.
- February 4 – Dragan Marsicanin becomes acting president of Serbia.
- February 6 – Richard Gephardt endorses John Kerry for President.
- February 7 – John Kerry wins a primary in Michigan with 52% of the vote. Kerry also wins the Washington primary with 49% of the vote.
- February 7 – Peter Beattie (of the Australian Labor Party) wins a 3rd term as Premier of Queensland, again winning over two-thirds of the seats.
- February 8 – John Kerry wins the Maine Caucuses with 45% of the vote.
- February 10 – John Kerry wins primaries in Tennessee and Virginia with 41% and 52% of the vote, respectively.
- February 11 – Wesley Clark quits the Presidential race after poor results in the Virginia and Tennessee primaries.
- February 13 – Wesley Clark endorses John Kerry.
- February 13 – Jesús Pérez is sworn in as foreign minister of Venezuela.
- February 13 – Tassos Giannitsis is sworn in as caretaker foreign minister of Greece.
- February 14 – John Kerry wins a caucus in Washington, D.C., with 47% of the vote. Kerry wins the Nevada caucus with 63% of state party delegates.
- February 17 – Democrat Ben Chandler defeats Republican Alice Forgy Kerr in a Congressional special election in Kentucky with 55% of the vote compared to Forgy Kerr's 43%.
- February 17 – John Kerry wins 40% of the vote in the Wisconsin primary.
- February 17 – Luisa Diogo is named prime minister of Mozambique.
- February 18 – Howard Dean quits the Presidential race after a poor showing in Wisconsin.
- February 18 – Jacques Simonet is sworn in as minister-president of Brussels-Capital.
- February 21 – Ralph Nader enters the Presidential race as an Independent.
- February 23 – Paul Lennon becomes acting premier of Tasmania.
- February 23 – Mamady Condé is named foreign minister of Guinea.
- February 23 – Josep Bargalló takes office as chief councillor of Catalonia.
- February 24 – Viktor Khristenko is named acting prime minister of Russia.
- February 26 – Ljupčo Jordanovski becomes acting president of Republic of Macedonia.
- February 28 – Sulejman Tihić becomes chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- February 29 – Boniface Alexandre is sworn in as provisional president of Haiti.
March
- March 2 – "Super Tuesday" U.S. presidential primaries or caucuses take place in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. John Kerry wins in 9 states, and a dejected John Edwards quits the race.
- March 3 – New Government of Serbia was formed with support of Milošević's SPS party
- March 4 – national parliament and all state assemblies of Malaysia, except Sarawak's were dissolved by the Prime Minister, paving the way for the general election.
- March 4 – Predrag Marković becomes acting President of Serbia.
- March 5 – Mikhail Fradkov is confirmed as Prime Minister of Russia.
- March 7 – Kostas Karamanlis is given the mandate to form a new government in Greece.
- March 9 – Sergey Lavrov is appointed Foreign Minister of Russia.
- March 9 – Petros Molyviatis becomes Foreign Minister of Greece.
- March 9 – Parliament of Latvia approves a new government headed by Indulis Emsis, Rihards Piks becomes foreign minister.
- March 11 – Salomé Zurabishvili is appointed as foreign minister of the Republic of Georgia.
- March 12 – Oleg Chirkunov becomes new acting governor of Perm.
- March 12 – Gérard Latortue is sworn in as Prime Minister of Haiti.
- March 13 – Nomination day for the Malaysian general election. Barisan Nasional wins 15 parliamentary seats and 7 state assembly seats uncontested. The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party settles for one seat in the state of Johor.
- March 16 – Sergey Abaramov is appointed as Prime Minister of Chechnya.
- March 21 – National Front scores a landslide victory in the Malaysian general election.
- March 23 – Lawrence Gonzi is sworn in as Prime Minister of Malta. John Dalli becomes foreign minister.
- March 24 – Baldwin Spencer is sworn in as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Harold Lovell becomes Foreign Minister.
- March 25 – Datuk Idris Jusoh is sworn in as chief minister of Terengganu.
- March 31 – Michel Barnier becomes foreign minister of France.
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
(Very partial list of politicians who died in 2004)
- January 6 – Dominica prime minister Pierre Charles dies of heart problems.
- January 15 – Maaruf al-Dawalibi, former Prime Minister of Syria.
- January 16 – Kalevi Sorsa, former Prime Minister of Finland.
- February 11 – Jozef Lenárt, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.
- February 24 – Indian politician Sikander Bakht, governor of Kerala state, dies of an illness.
- February 26 – Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash.
- February 29 – Sir Harold Bernard St. John, former Prime Minister of Barbados.
- March 1 – Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, former Prime Minister of Comoros.
- March 5 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, former President of Ecuador.
- March 20 – Juliana of the Netherlands, former Queen of the Netherlands.
- April 9 – Sein Lwin, former President of Myanmar.
- April 18 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, former President of Fiji.
- May 9 – Russian-backed Chechnyan president Akhmad Kadyrov is assassinated.
- May 17 – Iraq Interim Governing Council president Ezzedine Salim is assassinated.
- June 2 – Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, former acting President of Ethiopia.
- June 5 – Former US President Ronald Reagan dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93.
- June 10 – Xenophon Zolotas, former Prime Minister of Greece.
- June 16 – Thanom Kittikachor, former Prime minister of Thailand.
- June 24 – Carlos Alberto Lacoste, former acting President of Argentina.
- June 25 – L.F. Ramdat Misier, former acting President of Suriname.
- Jule 5 – Hugh Lawson Shearer, former prime minister of Jamaica.
- July 6 – Austrian president Thomas Klestil dies of a heart attack just two days before he was to retire.
- July 10 – Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo, former Prime Minister of Portugal.
- July 19 – Zenko Suzuki, former Prime Minister of Japan.
- September 12 – Ahmed Dini Ahmed, former Prime Minister of Djibouti.
- September 23 – Winston Cinac, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.
- November 11 – Former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat dies from a mysterious illness, aged 75.
- November 18 – Alfred Maseng, former President of Vanuatu.
- November 26 – Hans Schaffner, former President of Switzerland.
- December 23 – P.V. Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India.
See also
External links
- Rulers – Includes months in politics for 2004.
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