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January

Starting January 1, the first version of Mickey Mouse will enter public ownership on his 95th birthday. Of course, Disney retains the rights to all subsequent releases.

On the 10th of this month, it will be 100 years since the birth of sculptor Eduardo Chilleda, and the foundation that bears his name will celebrate this day through activities and exhibitions.

The BRICS group is expanding. The five founding countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – which have contested the economic power of the G7 since 2010, are adding new members starting this year. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran join the group. It was planned that Argentina would do so as well, but Miley backed out.

February

On February 2, the MAPFRE Foundation in Madrid will open an exhibition covering the life, works and political commitment of the Belarusian artist of Jewish origin Marc Chagall. The result of a collaboration between La Piscine – Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent (Roubaix), the Mapfre Foundation and the Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice, the exhibition, titled “Cry for Freedom”, will be a complete read by the artist. Who lived through two world wars and exile.

February 20 marks a decade since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That was the day, in 2014, when the Russian army occupied and later annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. Moreover, on the twenty-fourth of this month, two years have passed since the beginning of the all-out war that Russia declared against Ukraine.

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The 96th Academy Awards (on the 11th) will be held once again at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles. It is expected that the two films that distinguished the year 2023, Barbie and Oppenheimer, will be the ones that received the largest number of nominations.

Depeche Mode will pass through Spain with four concert dates, two in Madrid, one in Barcelona and one in Barakaldo.

The first round of presidential elections in Russia is scheduled to take place on March 17. Currently, Vladimir Putin, who has been in power since 1999, is expected to be re-elected either as president or prime minister. However, this is the first election after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and will serve as a thermometer for Putin regarding his military strategy.

April

On the 5th of this month, it will be 30 years since the death of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, icon of grunge and Generation X.

April will also be Telefónica’s centenary month and the month the company chose to permanently retire its copper network, replacing it with a fixed fiber network, a process it had already been working on for years.

The World Rally Raid passes through Spain once again with a third stage named the Trans-Iberian Rally. The World Championship will begin in the Dakar Rally and end in Morocco.

China is also back in the race. After four years of cancellation due to the coronavirus, the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix will once again be hosted in Shanghai.

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It has been 200 years since the National Gallery, one of the most important museums in Europe, was founded in 1824 in London. The gallery will open 12 simultaneous galleries across the UK.

The Eurovision finals will be held on Saturday 11th of this month. The host city for the Eurovision Song this year will be the Swedish city of Malmo, after singer Loren won the festival for the second time. Sweden, along with Ireland, has the most victories in its history: a total of seven.

May 30 is an important day for com. swifties National because it will be the only one that Taylor Swift will hold in Spain. He will be at the new Santiago Bernabéu.

June

On the third day, 100 years have passed since the death of the writer Franz Kafka.

On the sixth day, the 80th anniversary of what is known as D-Day, the Normandy landings, carried out by the Allies and crucial to the victory over the Nazis in World War II, are commemorated.

Duque returns to Madrid in June and will perform at the Bernabéu on June 8.

This is also the month (the ninth) of the European elections in which members of the European Parliament are elected every five years.

In Spain, we will celebrate royally because June 19 marks the tenth anniversary of the proclamation of King Felipe, after his father, Juan Carlos I, abdicated the throne.

July

Metallica returns to Madrid on July 12-14 as a unique date in Spain. Each concert will have a different opening and Make the list Completely different.

On the 14th, sports fans already have plans. Due to organizational coincidences of sporting calendars, this year the European Cup Final, Copa America Final and Wimbledon Final will be held on the same day. The best thing is that you can see all three, as the schedules don’t overlap.

In addition, this is the month in which the Olympic Games begin in Paris, which will be held between July 26 and August 11 and will include new sports such as Break dance.

Luis Miguel will spend next July in Pamplona, ​​Madrid or Murcia, after an absence of more than six years from the Spanish scene.

August

August 3 marks 100 years since the death of author Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of Darkness, among other works.

Indonesia plans to change capital. Nusantara, a city built from scratch on the island of Borneo, will be declared the new capital on August 17. Jakarta, the capital since 1945, the year of Indonesia’s independence, will not be the country’s administrative capital. Water is to blame: Jakarta sinks about 7.5 centimeters a year.

From August 17 to September 8, the Vuelta Ciclista de España will take place.

On August 28, the Paralympics start in Paris, which will continue until September 8.

September

On September 1, 1939, in an operation known as the “White Cause,” Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, beginning World War II. Therefore, the year 2024 is the year of the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict.

UN member states have agreed to hold their first future summit in September 2024, where they will try to offer solutions to humanity’s problems afflicting the planet (wars, climate change, food insecurity, among many others).

From September 23 to 27, Cordoba will host the World Congress of Heritage Cities, a meeting that brings together more than 300 cities whose territory includes a site designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

October

Who will take charge of NATO? In 2023, the Allies decided to extend the term of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for another year, even though his position expires in 2022. Then, due to the invasion of Ukraine, the extension had already been approved and was renewed in 2023. But October 1, 2024 The new extension expires. Stoltenberg has held this position since 2014.

From October 11 to 13, the city of Jerez will host the final of the first Women’s MotoGP World Championship in history, which will consist of 12 races.

The final of the 37th America’s Cup in Sailing is scheduled to take place from October 12 to 20 in Barcelona. The competition, which is considered the most important in the world of sailing and the oldest sport, will be held 200 meters from the beaches, at the regatta track located between Port Vell and Olympic Harbour.

November

The month will begin with one of the most important electoral events in the world: the US presidential elections will take place on the 5th of this month, and unless a last-minute surprise occurs, the battle will be between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

COP29, or the UN climate summit, is scheduled to be held in November like every year, although it does not yet have a headquarters.

At the end of the month, NASA is scheduled to launch its Artemis 2 mission, which it intends to return to the moon. Although astronauts will not set foot on the satellite, they will orbit it for the first time since 1972.

From November 30 to December 8, the Guadalajara International Book Fair will take place, of which Spain will be the guest of honour.

December

Will there be a global treaty on plastics? Nine years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, the United Nations plans to sign the first binding international treaty against plastic pollution at the end of 2024. The idea is ambitious: to end this pollution once and for all.

December 17 marks 35 years since the first episode of The Simpsons aired. US network Fox aired the first episode in 1989, although an animated short starring the more famous Springfield family had aired two years earlier. Today it remains the longest animated series in history.