LIST OF IMPORTANT DAYS
To mark the importance of some significant events, we celebrate the days on which these events took place. Other than this, certain days are celebrated to create awareness among people about important things in the world like awareness against any disease, poverty, etc. Such events along with their dates are especially important for those who are preparing for competitive exams.
JANUARY
1 January – English New Year, Army Medical Corps Establishment Day, Global Family Day
4 January – World Braille Day
6 January – World War Orphans Day, National Technology Day
8 January – African National Congress Foundation Day
9 January – Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (NRI Day)
10 January – World Laughter Day, World Hindi Day
11 January – Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
12 January – National Youth Day (Birth of Swami Vivekanand), National Vision Board Day
13 January – Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti
14 January – Lohri
15 January – Indian Army Day, Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Wikipedia Day
23 January – Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary
25 January – International Customs Duty Day, India Tourism Day, National Voters Day
26 January – Republic Day (India), Australia Day
27 January – Family Literacy Day, International Holocaust Remembrance Day (International Day of Commemoration)
28 January – Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
30 January – Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day (Martyr’s day)
Last Sunday of January – World Leprosy Eradication Day
FEBRUARY
1 February – Indian Coast Guard Day
2 February – World Wetlands Day
4 February – World Cancer Day, Independence Day of Sri Lanka
6 February – International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
7 February – International Safer Internet Day
11 February – World Day of the Sick
12 February – Darwin Day, International Day of Women’s Health
13 February – Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary
14 February – Saint Valentine’s Day
15 February – International Childhood Cancer Day
18 February – Taj Mahotsav
20 February – World Day of Social Justice
21 February – International Mother Language Day
22 February – World Scout Day
24 February – Central Excise Day
27 February – World Sustainable Energy Day
28 February – National Science Day
MARCH
2 March – Employee Appreciation Day
3 March – World Wildlife Day, World Hearing Day
4 March – National Safety Day
8 March – International Women’s Day, Ramakrishna Jayanti
10 March – CISF Raising Day
12 March – Mauritius Day
14 March – Pi Day, International Day of Action for Rivers
15 March – World Consumer Rights Day, World Sleep Day
16 March – National Vaccination Day
18 March – Ordnance Factories Day (India)
20 March – International Day of Happiness, World Oral Health Day
21 March – World Forestry Day, World Down Syndrome Day, World Poetry Day, Human Rights Day (South Africa), International Day of Forests
22 March – World Water Day
23 March – World Meteorological Day
24 March – World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
25 March – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, International Day of the Unborn Child
26 March – Purple Day for epilepsy
27 March – World Theatre Day
Second Wednesday of March – No Smoking Day
APRIL
2 April – World Autism Awareness Day, International Children’s Book Day
4 April – International Day for Mine Awareness
5 April – National Maritime Day
6 April – International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
7 April – World Health Day (On this very day in the year 1948, WHO was formed, however, the first World Health Day was observed in the year 1950)
10 April – World Homeopathy Day
11 April – National Safe Motherhood Day, National Pet Day
12 April – Equal Pay Day
13 April – Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre Day (1919)
14 April – B.R. Ambedkar Remembrance Day
17 April – World Hemophilia Day
18 April – World Heritage Day
21 April – National Civil Service Day, Secretaries’ Day
22 April – World Earth Day
23 April – World Book and Copyright Day
24 April – National Panchayati Day
25 April – World Malaria Day
26 April – World Intellectual Property Day
28 April – World Day for Safety and Health at Work, World Veterinary Day
30 April – Ayushman Bharat Diwas
MAY
3 May: Press Freedom Day
4 May: Coal Miners Day, International Firefighter’s Day
7 May: World Athletics Day, Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti
8 May: World Red Cross Day, World Thalassaemia Day
11 May: National Technology Day
12 May: International Nurses Day
15 May: International Day of Families
17 May: World Telecommunication Day, World Hypertension Day
18 May: World AIDS Vaccine Day, International Museum Day
21 May: National Anti-Terrorism Day
22 May: International Day for Biological Diversity
31 May: Anti-Tobacco Day
First Sunday of May: World Laughter Day
First Tuesday of May: World Asthma Day
Second Sunday of May: Mother’s Day
Third Friday in May: National Endangered Species Day
Third Saturday of the May: Armed Forces Day
Last Monday of May: National Memorial Day
JUNE
2 June: International Sex Workers Day, Telangana Formation Day
3 June: World Bicycle Day
4 June: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June: World Environment Day
7 June: World Food Safety Day
8 June: World Brain Tumour Day, World Oceans Day
12 June: World Day Against Child Labour
14 June: World Blood Donor Day
15 June: World Wind Day, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 June: Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev
17 June: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (International)
18 June: Autistic Pride Day, International Picnic Day
19 June: World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, World Sauntering Day
20 June: World Refugee Day (International)
21 June: World Music Day, World Hydrography Day, International Yoga Day
23 June: International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day, International Widow’s Day
26 June: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
30 June: Asteroid Day
Third Sunday of June: World Father’s Day
JULY
1 July – Doctor’s Day, National Postal Worker Day, Canada Day, Chartered Accountant’s Day (India), National U.S. Postage Stamp Day, National Gingersnap Day
2 July – World UFO Day, National Anisette Day
3 July – National Fried Clam Day
4 July – Independence Day USA
6 July – World Zoonoses Day
11 July – World Population Day, National 7-Eleven Day
12 July – National Simplicity Day, Paper Bag Day, Malala Day
14 July- Bastille Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
18 July – International Nelson Mandela Day
22 July – Pi Approximation Day
24 July – National Thermal Engineer Day
26 July – Kargil Vijay Diwas (Kargil Victory Day)
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day, World Hepatitis Day
29 July – International Tiger Day
Fourth Sunday of July – National Parent’s Day (US)
Fourth Thursday in July – National Refreshment Day
Last Friday in July – System Administrator Appreciation Day
AUGUST
6 August – Hiroshima Day
9 August – Quit India Movement Day, Nagasaki Day, Day of the World’s Indigenous People
12 August – International Youth Day
13 August – International Lefthanders Day
14 August – Youm-e-Azadi (Pakistan Independence Day)
15 August – National Day of Mourning (Bangladesh), Independence Day (India), Victory over Japan Day (UK), Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
16 August- Bennington Battle Day
17 August – Indonesian Independence Day
19 August – World Photography Day, World Humanitarian Day
20 August – World Mosquito Day
20 August- Sadbhavna Divas, Indian Akshay Urja Day
23 August – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
26 August – Women’s Equality Day
29 August – National Sports Day
30 August – Small Industry Day
31 August – Hari Merdeka (Malaysia National Day)
First Friday of August – International Beer Day
First Sunday of August – Friendship Day
SEPTEMBER
3 September – Skyscraper Day
5 September – International Day of Charity, Teachers’ Day (India)
7 September – Brazilian Independence Day, Forgiveness Day
8 September – International Literacy Day
10 September- World Suicide Prevention Day
11 September – Patriot Day
14 September – Hindi Diwas, World First Aid Day
15 September – Engineer’s Day (India), International Day of Democracy
16 September – Malaysia Day, World Ozone Day, International Day of Preservation
19 September – International Talk Like a Pirate Day
21 September – International Day of Peace and Non-Violence, World Alzheimer’s Day
22 September – Rose Day (Welfare of Cancer patients)
23 September – International Day of Sign Languages
26 September – European Day of Languages, World Contraception Day, World Maritime Day
27 September – World Tourism Day
28 September – World Rabies Day
29 September – World Heart Day
30 September – International Translation Day
Fourth Sunday of September – World Rivers Day
Last week of September – World Day of Deaf
OCTOBER
2 October – Gandhi Jayanti, International Day of Non-Violence
3 October – German Unity Day
4 October – World Animal Welfare Day
5 October – World Teachers’ Day
6 October – German-American Day
8 October – Indian Air Force Day
9 October – World Postal Day or World Post Office Day
10 October – World Mental Health Day
11 October – International Girl Child Day
13 October – World Calamity Control Day (UN) or UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
14 October – World Standards Day
15 October – Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, Global Hand washing Day, World White Cane Day (guiding the blind), World Students Day
16 October – World Food Day
17 October – International Poverty Eradication Day
20 October – National Solidarity Day (China attacked India on that Day)
23 October – Mole Day
24 October – United Nations Day, World Development Information Day
30 October – World Thrift Day
31 October – Halloween, Rashtriya Ekta Diwas
First Monday of October – World Habitat Day
Second Thursday of October – World Sight Day
NOVEMBER
2 November – All Souls’ Day
5 November – World Tsunami Day
7 November – Infant Protection Day, World Cancer Awareness Day
9 November – Iqbal Day, National Legal Services Day
10 November – Transport Day
11 November – Armistice Day (also Remembrance Day), Veterans Day (US)
12 November – World Pneumonia Day, Guru Nanak Dev’s Birth Anniversary
13 November – World Kindness Day
14 November – World Diabetes Day, Children’s Day
17 November – National Epilepsy Day
19 November – International Men’s Day, World Toilet Day
20 November – Universal Children’s Day, Africa Industrialization Day
21 November – World Television Day
25 November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
26 November – Law Day (India)
29 November – International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
30 November – Saint Andrew’s Day (Scotland)
First Tuesday in November – Melbourne Cup Day
Fourth Thursday of November – Thanksgiving Day (US)
DECEMBER
2 December – National Pollution Control
3 December – World Day of the Handicapped
4 December – Indian Navy Day
5 December – International Volunteer Day, World Soil Day
7 December – Indian Armed Forces Flag Day, International Civil Aviation Day
9 December – International Anti-Corruption Day
10 December – Human Rights Day
11 December – UNICEF Day, International Mountain Day
14 December – World Energy Conservation Day
15 December – International Tea Day
16 December – Victory Day of Bangladesh
18 December – Minorities Rights Day (India), International Migrants Day
19 December – Goa’s Liberation Day
20 December – International Human Solidarity Day
22 December – National Mathematics Day
23 December – Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day in India)
24 December – National Consumer Rights Day
25 December – Christmas Day, Good Governance Day (India)
31 December – New Year’s Eve
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