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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 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.[1]
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
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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).[2][3]
Observances
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit](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.)
- List of observances set by the Bahá'í calendar
- List of observances set by the Chinese calendar
- List of observances set by the Hebrew calendar
- List of observances set by the Islamic calendar
- List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar
Movable
[edit]- 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.[4]
- Ra o te Ui Ariki (Cook Islands) July 6[5]
- Collector Car Appreciation Day (United States)
- Senior Citizen's Day (Kiribati)[6]
- Shark Week (United States)
- Earth Overshoot Day
- See also Movable Western Christian observances
- See also Movable Eastern Christian observances
First Friday
[edit]First Saturday
[edit]First Saturday and Sunday
[edit]First Sunday
[edit]Sunday closest to 2 July
[edit]First full week in July
[edit]First Monday
[edit]5 July or following Monday if it's a weekend
[edit]Day after first Monday
[edit]Second Monday
[edit]Second Thursday
[edit]Second Sunday
[edit]Nearest Sunday to 11 July
[edit]Third Monday
[edit]- Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera (Puerto Rico, United States)
- Children's Day (Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela)
- Galla Bayramy (Turkmenistan)
- Marine Day (Japan)
- Presidents' Day (Botswana)
Third Sunday
[edit]Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks
[edit]Third Tuesday
[edit]Fourth Sunday
[edit]Friday preceding the Fourth Saturday and the following Sunday
[edit]Fourth Thursday
[edit]Last Saturday
[edit]Last Sunday
[edit]- Father's Day (Dominican Republic)
- National Tree Day (Australia)
- Navy Day (Russia)
- Reek Sunday (Ireland)
Thursday before the first Monday
[edit]Following Friday
[edit]Last Friday
[edit]Fixed Gregorian
[edit]- July 1
- Armed Forces Day (Singapore)
- Canada Day (Canada)
- Children's Day (Pakistan)
- Chinese Communist Party Founding Day (People's Republic of China)
- Day of Officials and Civil Servants (Hungary)
- Doctors' Day (India)
- Emancipation Day (Netherlands Antilles)
- Engineer's Day (Bahrain, Mexico)
- Feast of the Most Precious Blood (removed from official Roman Catholic calendar since 1969)
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (Hong Kong, China)
- Independence Day (Burundi)
- Independence Day (Rwanda)
- Independence Day (Somalia)
- International Tartan Day
- July Morning (Bulgaria)
- Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) (Suriname)
- Madeira Day (Madeira, Portugal)
- Moving Day (Quebec) (Canada)
- National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day (United States)
- National Gingersnap Day (United States)
- Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day
- Republic Day (Ghana)
- Sir Seretse Khama Day (Botswana)
- Territory Day (British Virgin Islands)
- Van Mahotsav, celebrated until July 7 (India)
- July 2
- July 3
- Saint Thomas the Apostle Day
- The start of the dog days according to the Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures.
- Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
- Independence Day (Belarus)
- July 4
- Birthday of Queen Sonja (Norway)
- Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 (Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
- Independence Day (Abkhazia)
- Independence Day (United States)
- Liberation Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Liberation Day (Rwanda)
- Republic Day (Philippines)
- July 5
- Armed Forces Day (Venezuela)
- Bloody Thursday (International Longshore and Warehouse Union)
- Constitution Day (Armenia)
- Fifth of July (New York)
- Independence Day (Algeria)
- Independence Day (Cape Verde)
- Independence Day (Venezuela)
- Saints Cyril and Methodius Feast Day (celebrated as a public holiday in Slovakia)
- X-Day (Church of the SubGenius)
- July 6
- Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)
- 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)
- Statehood Day (Lithuania)
- Teachers' Day (Peru)
- July 7
- Independence Day (Solomon Islands)
- Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)
- Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
- Tanabata (Japan, Gregorian date, some follow the traditional calendar)
- World Chocolate Day
- July 8
- July 9
- Arbor Day (Cambodia)
- Constitution Day (Australia)
- Constitution Day (Palau)
- Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo)
- Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)
- Independence Day (Argentina, South Sudan)
- Nunavut Day (Nunavut)
- July 10
- July 11
- China National Maritime Day (China)
- Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
- Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
- Gospel Day (Kiribati)
- Imamat Day (Isma'ilism)
- World Population Day (International)
- July 12
- Birthday of the Heir to the Crown of Tonga (Tonga)
- Independence Day (Kiribati, São Tomé and Príncipe)
- Malala Day
- The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen's Day (Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)
- July 13
- July 14
- Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
- Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag flying day (Sweden)
- Hondurans' Day (Honduras)
- Republic Day (Iraq)
- July 15
- Bon Festival (Kantō region, Japan)
- Elderly Men Day (Kiribati)
- Festival of Santa Rosalia (Palermo, Sicily)
- Sultan's Birthday (Brunei Darussalam)
- July 16
- July 17
- July 18
- July 19
- Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
- Martyrs' Day (Burma)
- July 20
- Día del Amigo (Argentina)
- Engineer's Day (Costa Rica)
- Independence Day (Colombia)
- Lempira's Day (Honduras)
- Tree Planting Day (Central African Republic)
- July 21
- July 22
- Foundation Day in Cleveland
- July 23
- 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)
- Revolution Day (Egypt)
- July 24
- Children's Day (Vanuatu)
- Navy Day (Venezuela)
- Pioneer Day (Utah) (United States)
- Simón Bolívar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
- July 25
- Saint James the Great Day
- Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
- National Day of Galicia (Galicia (Spain))
- National Baha'i Day (Jamaica)
- Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
- Republic Day (Tunisia)
- Revolution Day (Egypt)
- July 26
- July 27
- 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)
- July 28
- July 29
- International Tiger Day
- National Anthem Day (Romania)
- National Thai Language Day (Thailand)
- Ólavsøka, opening of the Løgting session (Faroe Islands)
- Olsok (Faroe Islands, (Finland, Norway)
- July 30
- Feast of the Throne (Morocco)
- Día del Amigo (Paraguay)
- Independence Day (Vanuatu)
- Martyrs Day (South Sudan)
- July 31
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Keeping Time: Months and the Modern Calendar". Live Science. 16 May 2014.
- ^ The Earth passed the junction of the signs at 08:36 UT/GMT July 22, 2020, and will pass it again at 14:26 UT/GMT July 22, 2021.
- ^ "Astrology Calendar", yourzodiacsign. Signs in UT/GMT for 1950–2030.
- ^ "Dates for the Matariki public holiday". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ. 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ^ "Ra o te Ui Ariki in the Cook Islands / July 6, 2021".
- ^ "Marrow Donor Day in Armenia / January 8, 2021".
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