2009 in politics
These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2009:Events
- United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
January
- January 17 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls for an immediate ceasefire during the Gaza conflict.
- January 20 - Inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States.
June
- June 2 - New Politics Party was formed in Thailand.
- June 4 - Change 2011 party was formed in Finland.
July
- July 3–5 - Global Lincoln, a conference on Abraham Lincoln at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
October
- October 1 - The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom begins operating.
- October 2 - The Republic of Ireland voted in favour of the Lisbon Treaty.
November
- November 3 - Incumbent Democrat Luke Ravenstahl defeats both Franklin Dok Harris and Kevin Acklin in the Pittsburgh mayoral election, 2009.
Deaths
- January 1 - Nizar Rayan, Palestinian
- January 1 - Helen Suzman, South African
- January 15 - Said Seyam, Palestinian
- January 25 - Mamadou Dia, Senegalese
- January 27 - R. Venkataraman, Indian
- February 27 - Manea Manescu, Romanian
- March 2 - João Bernardo Vieira, Guinea-Bissauan
- March 15 - Ron Silver, American
- March 20 - Abdellatif Filali, Moroccan
- March 28 - Janet Jagan, Guyanese
- March 31 - Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian
- April 15 - Clement Freud, British
- April 21 - Jack Jones, British
- May 2 - Jack Kemp, American
- May 18 - Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan
- May 23 - Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean
- May 30 - Luís Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan
- May 30 - Ephraim Katzir, Israeli
- May 30 - Gaafar Nimeiri, Sudanese
- June 5 - Bernard Barker, American
- June 8 - Omar Bongo, Gabonese
- June 12 - Félix Malloum, Chadian
- June 17 - Ralf Dahrendorf, Anglo-German
- June 24 - Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian
- July 1 - Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan
- July 2 - Herbert G. Klein, American
- July 6 - Robert McNamara, American
- July 7 - Reader Harris, British
- July 17 - Meir Amit, Israeli
- July 26 - James E. King, American
- August 1 - Corazon Aquino, Filipina
- August 4 - Svend Auken, Danish
- August 6 - Savka Dabcevic-Kukar, Croatian
- August 11 - Nuala Fennell, Irish
- August 18 - Kim Dae-jung, South Korean
- August 22 - Adrien Zeller, French
- August 25 - Ted Kennedy, American
- September 2 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian
- September 28 - Guillermo Endara, Panamanian
- October 4 - Shoichi Nakagawa, Japanese
- October 16 - Robert William Davis, American
- October 17 - Jay W. Johnson, American
- October 20 - Clifford Hansen, American
- November 4 - William H. Avery, American
- November 13 - Bruce King, American
- November 15 - Pierre Harmel, Belgian
- November 20 - Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Pakistani
- November 20 - Celso Pitta, Brazilian
- November 22 - Ali Kordan, Iranian
- December 3 - Paula Hawkins, American
- December 5 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German
- December 9 - Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Guatemalan
- December 9 - Rodrigo Carazo Odio, Costa Rican
- December 16 - Yegor Gaidar, Russian
- December 16 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
- December 17 - Amin al-Hafiz, Syrian
