2024 in Bulgaria
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Events in the year 2024 in Bulgaria.
Incumbents
- President: Rumen Radev
- Prime Minister: Nikolay Denkov (until 9 April); Dimitar Glavchev (since 9 April)
Events
January
- 8–14 January – 2024 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Division II B at Sofia[1]
March
- 13 March – Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte dies in Sofia at the age of 78.[2]
- 31 March – Bulgaria and Romania partially join the Schengen Area, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks, Austria vetoed travel by land without border checks over fears that non-EU citizens could get easier access to the European Union.[3]
- 31 March – Customs agents seize 403 kilograms (about 887 pounds) of heroin valued at 8.5 million euros ($9 million) from a truck traveling from Iran to Western Europe at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing with Turkey.[4]
June
- 6–9 June – 2024 European Parliament election:[5] GERB emerges as the largest party in the Bulgarian contingent to the European Parliament.[6]
- 9 June – June 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: No party attains a majority in the National Assembly, with GERB attaining a plurality of seats.[7]
- 30 June – The Bulgarian Orthodox Church elects Metropolitan Daniel of Vidin, a member of the pro-Russian faction among the church's senior clergy, as Patriarch of All Bulgaria.[8]
July
- 3 July – The National Assembly votes 138-98 to reject a proposed GERB-SDS minority government to be headed by former parliamentary speaker Rosen Zhelyazkov.[9]
August
- 7 August – The National Assembly votes in favor of a legislative amendment banning the teaching of LGBTQ related topics in schools.[10]
- 12 August – Authorities announce the seizure of 436 kilograms of heroin valued at 35 million euros from a trailer in the port of Burgas that originated from Kyrgyzstan via Georgia.[11]
September
- 13 September – An Aero L-39 Albatros trainer jet of the Bulgarian Air Force crashes during a rehearsal for an airshow near Graf Ignatievo Air Base, killing its two pilots.[12]
October
- 27 October – October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: No party attains a majority in the National Assembly, with GERB attaining a plurality of seats.[13]
December
- 12 December – The European Union grants Bulgaria and Romania full entry to the Schengen Area beginning in 2025.[14]
- 15 December – Authorities seize 190 kilograms of cocaine valued at $7 million from a cargo ship that had docked in the port of Burgas from Peru.[15]
- 20 December – One person is killed in an avalanche in the Pirin.[16]
Deaths
- 19 January – Georgi Kostov, composer and politician[17]
- 2 February – Stefan Yanev, football player and writer[18]
- 18 March – Angel Marin, Vice President of Bulgaria (2002–2012)[19]
- 7 December – Doychin Vasilev, mountaineer and filmmaker, stroke.[20]
- 16 December – Margarita Mihneva, journalist and television presenter, cancer.[21]
Art and entertainment
Holidays
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 3 March – Liberation Day
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 3 May – Orthodox Good Friday
- 4–6 May – Orthodox Easter
- 6 May – Armed Forces Day and Saint George's Day
- 24 May – Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavic Script Day
- 6 September – Unification Day
- 22 September – Independence Day
- 1 November – Day of the Bulgarian Enlighteners
- 24 December – Christmas Eve
- 25–26 December – Christmas Days
See also
References
External links
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