Looking forward to sport, festivals, carnivals and parades in 2024
01 Energy price cap takes effect 06 National Insurance cut takes effect
06 Three years since Pro-Trump crowd stormed US Capitol building 08 Commons returns from Christmas recess
16 Ivan Toney ban for betting on football matches ends
25 Burns Night
27 Holocaust Memorial Day
01 XL bully dog ban comes into effect
02 Six Nations Rugby begins 04 Grammy Awards
09 Rio Carnival begins
10 Chinese New Year: Year of the Dragon
11 Super Bowl LVIII 11 “Swiftposium” conference on Taylor Swift
13 Shrove Tuesday
14 Valentine’s Day
16 London Fashion
Week
18 BAFTA film awards
24 Two years since
Russia invaded Ukraine 01 Rail fares increase
01 St David’s Day
02 BRIT Awards
07 Crufts
07 World Book Day 08 International Women’s Day 10 Academy Awards (Oscars) 10 Mothering Sunday
15 Red Nose Day
17 St Patrick’s Day
29 Good Friday
29 Ten years since the first samesex marriages in the UK
30 The Boat Race
31 Easter Sunday /
31 British Summer Time begins 01 National Living Wage 01 Easter Monday 05 Thirty years since Kurt Cobain died
08 State pension Increases
08 Total solar eclipse in North America 13 Grand National 13 Take That tour begins 16 Liz Truss book release 20 World Snooker Championship begins 21 London Marathon 22 Earth Day 02 UK local elections
03 World Press Freedom Day 04 Star Wars Day 06 Early May Bank Holiday 06 Holocaust Remembrance Day
06 One year since King Charles coronation 11 Eurovision grand final
12 BAFTA TV awards
12 Twenty-five years since the first sittings of Scottish and Welsh assemblies
14 Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show
25 FA Cup Final
27 Spring Bank Holiday
01 UEFA Champions League final
04 ICC T20 World Cup 04 Thirty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre in China
06 Eighty years since the D-Day landings in World
War Two
14 UEFA Euros 2024 begin 16 Father’s Day
18 Royal Ascot
18 Forty years since the Battle of Orgreave during the Miners’ strike 20 Isle of Wight Festival 20 Royal Highland Show 20 Summer Solstice
25 Fifteen years since Michael Jackson died
26 Glastonbury Festival starts 29 London Pride Parade