2012 in Croatia

Incumbents

• President - Ivo Josipović
• Prime Minister - Zoran Milanović

  Events

• January 22 - 2012 Croatian European Union membership referendum
• November 14 - Economy minister Radimir Čačić sentenced to 22 months in prison by a Hungarian court for causing a traffic accident involving two fatalities.
• November 16 - Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač are acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
• November 20 - Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is sentenced to 10 years in prison on bribe-taking.

  Deaths

• February 13 – Zlatko Crnković, actor
• February 27 – Helga Vlahović, television personality
• July 23 – Mirjana Gross, historian
• August 7 – Veljko Rogošić, swimmer
• August 14 – Maja Bošković-Stulli, historian
• August 25 – Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, archeologist and politician
• September 30 – Boris Šprem, politician
• October 26 – Joža Horvat, writer
• November 20 – Ivan Kušan, children's writer