title: 2014 in Estonia
text: # 2014 in Estonia
  
  The following lists events that happened during 2014 in the Republic of Estonia.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Toomas Hendrik Ilves
  * Prime Minister: Andrus Ansip (until 26 March), Taavi Rõivas (starting 26 March)
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February
  
  * February 23 - Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip announces that he will be leaving office before scheduled parliamentary elections in 2015.
  
  ### March
  
  * March 4 - Andrus Ansip resigns after nine years as prime minister of Estonia.
  * March 26 - Taavi Rõivas is sworn in as Prime Minister of Estonia, succeeding Andrus Ansip and becoming the youngest government leader in the European Union at 34 years.
  
  ### September
  
  * September 3 - The President of the United States, Barack Obama, visits Estonia in a move to reassure the Baltic states ahead of a NATO summit in Wales.
  * September 5 - Eston Kohver is abducted by gunpoint from the Estonian side of the border by the FSB.
  
  ### October
  
  * October 9 - Estonia becomes the first former Soviet republic to legalize gay partnerships and grant equal rights to same-sex couples.
  * October 27 - The first school shooting in Estonia takes place in Viljandi.
  