# 2024 in Bulgaria

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

### March

* 13 March – Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte dies in Sofia at the age of 78.
* 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.
* 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.

### June

* 6–9 June – 2024 European Parliament election: GERB emerges as the largest party in the Bulgarian contingent to the European Parliament.
* 9 June – June 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: No party attains a majority in the National Assembly, with GERB attaining a plurality of seats.
* 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.

### 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.

### August

* 7 August – The National Assembly votes in favor of a legislative amendment banning the teaching of LGBTQ related topics in schools.
* 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.

### 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.

### October

* 27 October – October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: No party attains a majority in the National Assembly, with GERB attaining a plurality of seats.

### December

* 12 December – The European Union grants Bulgaria and Romania full entry to the Schengen Area beginning in 2025.
* 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.
* 20 December – One person is killed in an avalanche in the Pirin.

## Deaths

* 19 January – Georgi Kostov, composer and politician
* 2 February – Stefan Yanev, football player and writer
* 18 March – Angel Marin, Vice President of Bulgaria (2002–2012)
* 7 December – Doychin Vasilev, mountaineer and filmmaker, stroke.
* 16 December – Margarita Mihneva, journalist and television presenter, cancer.

## Art and entertainment

* List of Bulgarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

## Holidays

Source:
* 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