2024 in Poland

← 2023 2022 2021 2024 in Poland → 2025 2026 2027
Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2024 Timeline of Polish history

Events in the year 2024 in Poland.

• President: Andrzej Duda
• Prime Minister: Donald Tusk

• 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.^[1] They are pardoned for a second time by President Andrzej Duda on 23 January.^[2]

• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• 24 March – A Russian cruise missile violates Polish airspace over Oserdów, Lublin Voivodeship, prompting the activation of aircraft from the Polish Air Force.^[5]
• 29 March – President Andrzej Duda signs a law suspending the country's participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.^[6] He also vetoes a law that would have allowed women ages 15 and above to have over the counter access to morning-after pills.^[7]

• 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.^[8]
• 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.^[9][10]
• 21 April – 2024 Polish local elections (second round)^[11]

• 10 May – 2024 Polish farmers' protests: Thousands of protesters march through Warsaw, against the European Union's environmental regulations.^[12]
• 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.^[13]
• 14 May – Three miners are killed after part of the Mysłowice-Wesoła Coal Mine caves in.^[14]
• 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.^[15]
• 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.^[16] He later dies of his injuries on 6 June.^[17]
• 29 May:
  • The Polish Defence Ministry gives Ukraine permission to use Polish-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russian territory.^[18]
  • Two border guards are injured in an attack by migrants along the Poland-Belarus border.^[19]

• 9 June – 2024 European Parliament election: The Civic Coalition emerges as the largest party in the Polish contingent to the European Parliament.^[20]
• 10 June –
  • One person is killed in an explosion at the Mesko armaments plant in Skarżysko-Kamienna.^[21]
  • 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.^[22]

• 19 June – The European Commission reprimands Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia for breaking budget rules.^[23]
• 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.^[24]

• 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.^[25]
• 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.^[26]
• 24 July – Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz states that Poland will block Ukraine's bid to join the European Union if it does not resolve issues regarding Ukrainian nationalists' massacre of Poles during World War II, including finding and burying all victims killed on current Ukrainian territory.^[27]

• 9 August – Prime Minister Donald Tusk announces that a six-month investigation had uncovered the illegal spending of 100 billion zlotys ($25 billion) in public funds by the previous Law and Justice government, resulting in charges against 62 officials.^[28]
• 24 August – South Africa blocks the transfer of 50,000 purchased artillery shells to Poland, citing concerns that they would be sent to Ukraine for use in the Russo-Ukrainian War.^[29]
• 26 August – 26 August 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine: Poland says that a drone had likely entered its airspace during the attacks on Ukraine and that searches were underway for the object as it may have landed in Polish territory.^[30]
• 27 August – Ukrainian President Zelenskyy announces that Poland will cooperate with Ukraine to return Ukrainians "who violated the law, traitors, collaborators" by illegally crossing the Poland–Ukraine border in order to escape conscription in the Russo-Ukrainian War.^[31]
• 29 August – The National Electoral Commission rules that the Law and Justice party illegally spent 3.6 million zlotys ($930,000) in public funds for its campaign in the 2023 Polish parliamentary election and orders it to return the amount. The body also orders a reduction in government subsidies for the party.^[32]

Source:^[33]

• 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

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

• 1 January – Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, 82, politician, MP (1991–2023)^[34]
• 2 January – Zvi Zamir, 98, Polish-born Israeli military officer, director of the Mossad (1968–1974).^[35]
• 4 January – Emil Polit, 83, painter.^[36]
• 5 January – Ryszard Karpiński, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Lublin (1985–2011).^[37]
• 7 January – Mateusz Rutkowski, 37, ski jumper.^[38]
• 9 January – Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, 67, Roman Catholic priest and political dissident.^[39]
• 10 January – Janusz Majewski, 92, film director (Lokis, Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwiłłówny, Hotel Pacific) and screenwriter.^[40]
• 11 January – Marek Litewka, 75, actor (Camera Buff, The Constant Factor).^[41]
• 25 January – Bat-Sheva Dagan, 98, Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor, educator and author.^[42]

• Online calendar