2 February-16 March

Six Nations rugby tournament

4 February

Grammy Awards

6-8 February

US Republican primaries, Nevada

7 February

Azerbaijan presidential elections

8 February

Pakistan general election

9-17 February

Rio Carnival

10 February

Lunar new year

11 February

American Football Super Bowl

11-15 February

Swiftposium academic conference on Taylor Swift

14 February

Indonesia general election

16 February

Trial begins of German man accused of Madeleine McCann’s abduction

17 February

EU Digital Services Act comes into force

18 February

Bafta film awards

23 February

Second anniversary of Russian invasion of Ukraine

24 February

US Republican primaries, South Carolina

25 February

Elections in Belarus, Iraqi Kurdistan and Senegal

in February

NATO expected to launch Steadfast Defender, the largest military exercise since the Cold War

March

1 March

Iran legislative elections

1-3 March

World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow

2 March

Brit Awards

5 March

US Super Tuesday presidential primary election day

7 March

World Book Day

7-10 March

Crufts, largest dog show in the world

8 March

International Women’s Day

Irish referendums on gender and family

8-23 March

African Games in Ghana

10 March

Portugal elections

The Oscars

10 March-9 April

Ramadan

11 March

Fourth anniversary of WHO declaring Covid pandemic

17 March

Russia presidential elections

23 March

WWF Earth Hour

30 March

Oxford and Cambridge boat race

31 March

Ukraine presidential elections expected

Elections expected in Slovakia and Togo

April

4 April

NATO 75th anniversary

5 April

Thirty years since the death of Kurt Cobain

8 April

Total solar eclipse across North America

10 April

South Korea elections

20 April-24 November

Venice Biennale

21 April

London Marathon

22 April

Earth Day

April/May

Indian elections, also in Maldives, North Macedonia and Solomon Islands

May

2 May

London mayoral elections

UK local elections

3 May

World Press Freedom Day

5 May

Panama elections

10 May

Bicentenary of the National Gallery in London

11 May

Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden

The Great Wall Marathon, China

12 May

Lithuania presidential elections (general election in October)

Bafta TV awards

13-19 May

US PGA golf championship

14–25 May

Cannes Film Festival

19 May

Dominican Republic elections

20 May – 9 June

French Open

21-25 May

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

22 May

Uefa Europa League final

23 May-2 June

Hay festival

Ivor Novello awards

25 May

FA Cup final

European Rugby Champions Cup final

26 May-9 June

French Open

Elections expected in Madagascar and South Africa

China scheduled to launch Chang’e 6, a sample-return mission involving a robotic lander, to the far side of the moon

June

1 June

Uefa Champions League final

Iceland presidential elections

2 June

Mexico elections

“Devil comet” closest to Earth

4-30 June

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup

5 June

Global Running Day

6 June

Eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings

6-9 June

EU parliamentary elections

9 June

Belgium federal elections

10-16 June

US Open golf tournament

13-15 June

Italy hosts the 50th G7 summit

13 June

Women’s prize for fiction

14 June-14 July

Uefa Euros

14-19 June

Hajj

16-21 June

World Biodiversity Forum

18-24 June

Royal Ascot

20 June

World Refugee Day

26-30 June

Glastonbury Festival begins

27-28 June

European Council summit

29 June-21 July

Tour de France begins

Elections expected in Kiribati, Mauritania and Mongolia

July

1 July

Hungary EU presidency

1-14 July

Wimbledon tennis championships begin

9-11 July

US hosts NATO summit

14 July

Euros final

15-18 July

US Republican national convention

15-19 July

International Botanical Congress in Madrid will vote on a proposal to allow culturally offensive animal names to be changed

18-21 July

The Open Golf Championship

19 July-14 September

BBC Proms

26 July-11 August

Paris Olympics

Summer 2024

South Africa elections, also in Croatia and North Macedonia

August

2-26 August

Edinburgh Festival fringe

12-18 August

Tour de France Femmes

17 August

The new city of Nusantara is formally inaugurated as the capital of Indonesia, replacing Jakarta

19-22 August

US Democratic National Convention

26 August-8 September

US Open tennis championships

28 August-8 September

Paralympic Games

Elections expected in Rwanda

September

1-8 September

Tour of Britain cycling race

8 September

Great North Run

9 September

Last Night of the Proms

14 September-19 January 2025

Major Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery in London

18 September

First US presidential debate

22-23 September

UN Summit of the Future opens in New York

25 September

US vice-presidential debate

Likely:

Mercury prize

Women’s T20 World Cup

Elections expected in Austria, Sri Lanka and Tunisia

Japan’s space agency, Jaxa, is due to launch its MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission to explore Phobos and Deimos, the tiny moons of Mars

October

1 October

Second US presidential debate

5 October

Last ever Singapore Gold Cup horse race

6 October

EU to start rolling out its entry-exit system (EES), requiring non-EU citizens to scan their passports when entering the Schengen free-travel area

9 October

Final US presidential debate

11 October

Nobel Peace Prize winner announced

23-27 October

Worldwide Music Expo (Womex), the music industry’s biggest conference, starts in Manchester

24 October

Russia hosts Brics summit in Kazan

26 October

Georgia elections

27 October

Uruguay elections

Elections expected in Bosnia and Botswana

NASA set to launch Europa Clipper, a probe to study the habitability of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

The final race of the America’s Cup takes place in Barcelona

October

Vatican to hold synod looking into direction of the Roman Catholic faith

November

5 November

US election

11-22 November

Cop29 climate summit

13 November

Somaliland elections

18 November

Brazil hosts G20 summit

21-24 November

Kendal Mountain festival

Elections expected in Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Namibia

November

US expected to launch the first crewed mission in 52 years to the moon

December

1 December

World Aids Day

7 December

Ghana elections

8 December

Notre Dame in Paris reopens five years after fire

20 December

South Sudan elections

Elections expected in Algeria, Croatia and Uzbekistan

India’s space agency, Isro, is due to launch the Shukrayaan space probe to Venus

 

Published on www.theguardian.com on 30 December 2023