2024 in Poland

Events in the year 2024 in Poland.

Incumbents

 * President: Andrzej Duda
 * Prime Minister: Donald Tusk

January

 * 9 January – Former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and his then-deputy Maciej Wasik are arrested by police inside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw following a legal dispute over their conviction and pardon for abuse of power. They are pardoned for a second time by President Andrzej Duda on 23 January.

March

 * 1 March – Nineteen people are injured, including six children in a vehicle-ramming attack in Szczecin. Police rule out terrorism, and the suspect is found to have a history of mental illness.
 * 5 March – One soldier is killed and another its injured after they are run over by a military tracked vehicle at the Drawsko Training Ground in Drawsko Pomorskie, West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
 * 24 March – A Russian cruise missile violates Polish airspace over Oserdów, Lublin Voivodeship, prompting the activation of aircraft from the Polish Air Force.
 * 29 March – President Andrzej Duda signs a law suspending the country's participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. He also vetoes a law that would have allowed women ages 15 and above to have over the counter access to morning-after pills.

April

 * 7 April – 2024 Polish local elections (first round): The opposition Law and Justice party comes first in local elections while the ruling coalition retains a majority of the votes.
 * 18 April –A Polish national is arrested on suspicion of collecting intelligence at Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport for Russia as part of a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit there, following a tip from Ukrainian authorities.
 * 21 April – 2024 Polish local elections (second round)

May

 * 10 May – 2024 Polish farmers' protests: Thousands of protesters march through Warsaw, against the European Union's environmental regulations.
 * 12 May – A fire breaks out at the Marywilska 44 shopping complex in the Białołęka district of Warsaw, engulfing most of its 1,400 shops and service outlets.
 * 14 May – Three miners are killed after part of the Mysłowice-Wesoła Coal Mine caves in.
 * 23 May – A 17th-century painting by Jan Linsen that was stolen as part of a theft of 85 artworks from the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, The Netherlands in 2005 is recovered from an apartment in Kraków.
 * 28 May – A soldier is injured after being stabbed along the Poland-Belarus border by a migrant trying to enter the country illegally during a patrol in Podlaskie Voivodeship. He later dies of his injuries on 6 June.
 * 29 May:
 * The Polish Defence Ministry gives Ukraine permission to use Polish-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russian territory.
 * Two border guards are injured in an attack by migrants along the Poland-Belarus border.

June

 * 9 June – 2024 European Parliament election: The Civic Coalition emerges as the largest party in the Polish contingent to the European Parliament.
 * 10 June –
 * One person is killed in an explosion at the Mesko armaments plant in Skarżysko-Kamienna.
 * Poland announces a "no-go zone" in the Białowieża Forest in order to prevent migrants from crossing the border from Belarus. In response, concerns are raised about the potential impact on tourism during the summer.


 * 19 June – The European Commission reprimands Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia for breaking budget rules.
 * 26 June – The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia call on the European Union to construct a €2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and Russia and Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats.

July

 * 8 July – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Poland can shoot down Russian missiles inside Ukrainian airspace following the signing of a security agreement in Warsaw.
 * 11 July – A magnitude 3.1 earthquake strikes the south of the country, killing a miner and injuring 17 others at the Rydultowy coal mine.

Holidays
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 * 1 January - New Year's Day
 * 6 January - Epiphany
 * 31 March - Easter Sunday
 * 1 April - Easter Monday
 * 1 May - May Day
 * 3 May - 3 May Constitution Day
 * 19 May - Whit Sunday
 * 30 May - Corpus Christi
 * 15 August - Assumption Day
 * 1 November - All Saints' Day
 * 11 November - Independence Day
 * 25 December - Christmas Day
 * 26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas

Art and entertainment

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

Deaths

 * 1 January – Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, 82, politician, MP (1991–2023)
 * 2 January – Zvi Zamir, 98, Polish-born Israeli military officer, director of the Mossad (1968–1974).
 * 4 January – Emil Polit, 83, painter.
 * 5 January – Ryszard Karpiński, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Lublin (1985–2011).
 * 7 January – Mateusz Rutkowski, 37, ski jumper.
 * 9 January – Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, 67, Roman Catholic priest and political dissident.
 * 10 January – Janusz Majewski, 92, film director (Lokis, Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwiłłówny, Hotel Pacific) and screenwriter.
 * 11 January – Marek Litewka, 75, actor (Camera Buff, The Constant Factor).
 * 25 January – Bat-Sheva Dagan, 98, Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor, educator and author.