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See also:	Other events of 2024 Timeline of Bulgarian history

Events in the year 2024 in Bulgaria.

• President: Rumen Radev
• Prime Minister: Nikolay Denkov (until 9 April); Dimitar Glavchev (since 9 April)

• 8–14 January – 2024 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Division II B at Sofia^[1]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 27 October – October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: No party attains a majority in the National Assembly, with GERB attaining a plurality of seats.^[13]

• 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]

• 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]

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

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• 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

• List of years in Bulgaria

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