2024 in Estonia

Events in the year 2024 in Estonia.

Incumbents

1 January – Estonia becomes the 36th country in the world where same-sex couples can marry.

13 February – The Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, is reportedly put on the Russian Interior Ministry's register of wanted people due to the removal of Soviet War Memorials, making Kallas the first known government leader to be added to a wanted list by Russian authorities.
23 February–2 March – 2024 Biathlon Junior World Championships

23 May – Twenty-five buoys used to demarcate the Estonia–Russia border along the Narva River are removed by Russian border guards in what Estonian authorities call a "a provocative border incident”.
31 May – Estonia becomes the 24th full member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

9 June – 2024 European Parliament election
26 June – The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia call on the European Union to construct a €2.5 billion defence line between them and Russia and Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats.
28 June – Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is nominated to become High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union.
29 June – Climate Minister Kristen Michal is nominated by the ruling Estonian Reform Party to replace Kaja Kallas as Prime Minister.

15 July – Prime minister Kaja Kallas resigns in order to assume her new role as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European External Action Service.
16 July – The Baltic states announce their exit from the Russian and Belarusian electricity grids along with plans to synchronize their grid with the continental Europe grid effective 9 February 2025.

25 November – Authorities announce that eight British soldiers participating in a NATO exercise were injured in a vehicular pileup along the Tallinn-Narva highway the week prior.

25 December – The submarine Estlink-2 power cable running under the Gulf of Finland between Finland and Estonia is cut, causing a significant decrease in Estonia's electricity supply and leading to suspicions that a vessel linked to Russia is responsible.

15 January – Uno Palu, 90, Olympic decathlete
16 January – Vaino Väljas, 92, diplomat and politician, first secretary of the communist party
24 January – Väino Uibo, 81, actor, singer and theatre director
29 October – Ragne Veensalu, 37, actress
31 December – Arnold Rüütel, 96, president, chairman of the Supreme Soviet and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.