Wikipedia / July
Wikipedia / July
July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., being the month of his birth. Before then it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the calendar that started with March.
It is on average the warmest month in most of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of summer, and the coldest month in much of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of winter. The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern Hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere.
"Dog days" are considered to begin in early July in the Northern Hemisphere, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts. Spring lambs born in late winter or early spring are usually sold before 1 July.
Symbols
July's birthstone is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment.
Its birth flowers are the larkspur and the water lily. The zodiac signs are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onward).
Observances
This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance.
Season of Emancipation 14 April to 23 August (Barbados)
Honor America Days: 14 June to 4 July (United States)
Month-long
In Catholic tradition, July is the Month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.
National Hot Dog Month (United States)
National Ice Cream Month (United States)
Disability Pride Month (United States)
Non-Gregorian
(All Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at the sundown before the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question unless otherwise noted.)
Movable
Phi Ta Khon (Dan Sai, Loei province, Isan, Thailand) – Dates are selected by village mediums and can take place anywhere between March and July.
Matariki (Māori New Year) – Different iwi celebrate according to their own tradition and the New Zealand Government calculates the public holiday each year according to advice from the Matariki Advisory Committee. Dates can fall from late June to late July.
Ra o te Ui Ariki (Cook Islands) July 6
Collector Car Appreciation Day (United States)
First Friday
First Saturday
First Saturday and Sunday
First Sunday
Sunday closest to 2 July
First full week in July
First Monday
5 July or following Monday if it's a weekend
Day after first Monday
Second Monday
Second Thursday
Second Sunday
Nearest Sunday to 11 July
Third Monday
Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera (Puerto Rico, United States)
Children's Day (Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela)
Third Sunday
Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks
Third Tuesday
Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera (Puerto Rico, United States)
Fourth Sunday
Friday preceding the Fourth Saturday and the following Sunday
Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival (Tobata, Japan)
Fourth Thursday
Last Saturday
Last Sunday
Thursday before the first Monday
Following Friday
Last Friday
Fixed Gregorian
Chinese Communist Party Founding Day (People's Republic of China)
Feast of the Most Precious Blood (removed from official Roman Catholic calendar since 1969)
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (Hong Kong, China)
Madeira Day (Madeira, Portugal)
Van Mahotsav, celebrated until July 7 (India)
Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)
The start of the dog days according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 (Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
Liberation Day (Rwanda)
Armed Forces Day (Venezuela)
Bloody Thursday (International Longshore and Warehouse Union)
Saints Cyril and Methodius Feast Day (celebrated as a public holiday in Slovakia)
Day of the Capital (Kazakhstan)
National Fried Chicken Day (United States)
Independence Day (Comoros)
Independence Day/Republic Day, (Malawi)
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
Kupala Night (Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine)
Teachers' Day (Peru)
Independence Day (Solomon Islands)
Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
Tanabata (Japan, Gregorian date, some follow the traditional calendar)
Arbor Day (Cambodia)
Constitution Day (Australia)
Constitution Day (Palau)
Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)
Independence Day (Argentina, South Sudan)
July 10
Beatles Day (Liverpool and Hamburg)
China National Maritime Day (China)
Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
Gospel Day (Kiribati)
Independence Day (Kiribati, São Tomé and Príncipe)
The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen's Day (Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag flying day (Sweden)
Hondurans' Day (Honduras)
Bon Festival (Kantō region, Japan)
Sultan's Birthday (Brunei Darussalam)
Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
Día del Amigo (Argentina)
Engineer's Day (Costa Rica)
Lempira's Day (Honduras)
Tree Planting Day (Central African Republic)
Foundation Day in Cleveland
Birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
Children's Day (Indonesia)
Flag Day (Abkhazia)
National Hot Dog Day (United States)
National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)
Renaissance Day (Oman)
Pioneer Day (Utah) (United States)
Simón Bolívar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
National Baha'i Day (Jamaica)
Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
Day of National Significance (Barbados)
Kargil Victory Day (India)
Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (North Korea)
Iglesia ni Cristo Day (the Philippines)
José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)
Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers Day (Vietnam)
National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day (United States)
National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
National Anthem Day (Romania)
National Thai Language Day (Thailand)
Ólavsøka, opening of the Løgting session (Faroe Islands)
Olsok (Faroe Islands, (Finland, Norway)
Feast of the Throne (Morocco)
Día del Amigo (Paraguay)
Martyrs Day (South Sudan)
Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day (Hawaii, United States)
Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh (Haryana and Punjab, India)
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