2023 in the Czech Republic

Events in the year 2023 in the Czech Republic.

Incumbents

 * President – Miloš Zeman (until March 8); Petr Pavel onwards
 * Prime Minister – Petr Fiala

January

 * 9 January – Prague’s municipal court acquitted Andrej Babiš of charges of subsidy fraud.
 * 13 January – 2023 Czech presidential election: Czechs elect their president. Incumbent Miloš Zeman is not eligible to run for re-election, as he is term limited.
 * 27 January – 2023 Czech presidential election: Czechs vote in the second round of the presidential election.
 * 28 January – The Czech Statistical Office reports that former NATO Military Committee chair Petr Pavel has been elected President of the Czech Republic, defeating former prime minister Andrej Babiš with 58 percent of the votes.

December

 * 21 December – 2023 Prague shooting: 14 people are killed and 25 others injured during a mass shooting at Charles University in Prague. The perpetrator, a student at the university, kills himself after the shooting.

Sports

 * 30 July 2022 – 28 May 2023: 2022–23 Czech First League
 * 29 July 2022 – 28 May 2023: 2022–23 Czech National Football League
 * 2022–23 Czech Cup
 * 2022–23 Czech Women's First League

January

 * 2 January – Vasil Timkovič, 99, World War II veteran.
 * 3 January – Petr Pavlásek, 75, Olympic weightlifter (1972, 1976).
 * 4 January – Marie Kovářová, 95, gymnast, Olympic champion (1948).
 * 14 January – Zdeněk Češka, 93, lawyer, academic and politician.
 * 16 January – Pavel Pecháček, 82, Czech-born American journalist and manager.
 * 17 January – Stanislav Tereba, 85, photojournalist.
 * 19 January – Kristina Taberyová, 71, theatre and television director and humanitarian (People in Need).
 * 20 January – Jiří Macháně, 82, cinematographer (Beauty and the Beast, The Ninth Heart, Černí baroni).
 * 28 January –
 * Jaroslav Šedivý, 93, politician, minister of foreign affairs (1997–1998).
 * Jiří Šetlík, 93, art historian and academic.
 * 31 January – Miroslav Lacký, 79, ice hockey player (HC Vítkovice Ridera, HC Dynamo Pardubice).

February

 * 3 February – Naďa Urbánková, 83, singer and actress (Closely Watched Trains, Larks on a String, Seclusion Near a Forest).
 * 6 February – Lubomír Štrougal, 98, politician, prime minister of Czechoslovakia (1970–1988).

July

 * 11 July – Milan Kundera, 94, Czech-born French writer (The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being)