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July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis.
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.
In the Northern Hemisphere, "Dog days" are considered to begin in early July, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts. Spring lambs, born in late winter or early spring, are usually sold before July 1.
July is the traditional period known as "fence month" (the closed season for deer in England), the end Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England), taking place on July 31, and also the time in which the elections of Japanese House of Councillors, replacing half of its seats, held every three years (the latest one in 2016).
In Ancient Rome the festival of Poplifugia was celebrated on July 5, Ludi Apollinares on July 13 and for several days afterwards, but these dates does not correspond to the modern Gregorian one.
Contents
- 1 Observances
- 1.1 Month-long observances
- 1.2 Movable observances, 2016
- 1.2.1 First Friday: July 1
- 1.2.2 First Saturday: July 2
- 1.2.3 First Saturday and Sunday: July 2–3
- 1.2.4 First Full Week in July: July 3–10
- 1.2.5 Nearest Sunday to July 11: July 10
- 1.2.6 Second Thursday: July 14
- 1.2.7 Third Sunday: July 17
- 1.2.8 Third Monday: July 18
- 1.2.9 Weekend of fourth Saturday: July 22–24
- 1.2.10 Fourth Sunday: July 24
- 1.2.11 Second to Last Sunday: July 24
- 1.2.12 Fourth Thursday: July 28
- 1.2.13 Thursday before the first Monday in August: July 28
- 1.2.14 Fourth Friday: July 29
- 1.2.15 Last Friday: July 29
- 1.2.16 Last Saturday: July 30
- 1.2.17 Last Sunday: July 31
- 1.2.18 Movable Western Christian observances
- 1.2.19 Movable Eastern Christian observances
- 1.3 Non-Gregorian observances, 2016
- 1.4 Fixed Gregorian observances
- 2 July symbols
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Observances[edit]
This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance.
- Season of Emancipation April 14 to August 23 (Barbados)
- Honor America Days: June 14 to July 4 (United States)
Month-long observances[edit]
- In Catholic tradition, July is the Month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.
- Group B Strep Awareness Month (United States, United Kingdom)
- National Hot Dog Month (United States)
- National Ice Cream Month (United States)
Movable observances, 2016[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.
- Shark Week June 26-July 3[1] (United States)
- Māori Language Week (New Zealand) July 4–10
- Ra o te Ui Ariki (Cook Islands) July 6[2]
- Collector Car Appreciation Day (United States) July 8
- Singapore International Water Week July 10–16
- Senior Citizen's Day (Kiribati) - July 14[3]
- Engineer's Days (Singapore) 23 to 24 July[4]
First Friday: July 1[edit]
First Saturday: July 2[edit]
First Saturday and Sunday: July 2–3[edit]
First Full Week in July: July 3–10[edit]
First Sunday: July 3[edit]
Sunday closest to July 2: July 3[edit]
First Monday: July 4[edit]
- Carnival Monday, continues to next day. (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
- CARICOM Day (Guyana)
- Heroes' Day (Zambia)
- Mother's Day (South Sudan)
- National Day (Cayman Islands)
Day after First Monday: July 5[edit]
July 5 or following Monday if its a weekend: July 5[edit]
Second Sunday: July 10[edit]
- Construction Holiday (Quebec) (Canada) begins, lasts two weeks
- Father's Day (Uruguay)
- Sea Sunday (Western Christianity)
Nearest Sunday to July 11: July 10[edit]
Second Thursday: July 14[edit]
Third Sunday: July 17[edit]
- Children's Day (Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela)
- Galla Bayramy (Turkmenistan)
- National Ice Cream Day (United States)
Third Monday: July 18[edit]
- Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera (Puerto Rico)
- Galla Bayramy (Turkmenistan)
- Marine Day (Japan)
- Presidents' Day (Botswana), third Monday and Tuesday (July 19)
- Mandela Day (South Africa )
Weekend of fourth Saturday: July 22–24[edit]
Fourth Sunday: July 24[edit]
Second to Last Sunday: July 24[edit]
Fourth Thursday: July 28[edit]
Thursday before the first Monday in August: July 28[edit]
Following Friday: July 29[edit]
Fourth Friday: July 29[edit]
Last Friday: July 29[edit]
Last Saturday: July 30[edit]
Last Sunday: July 31[edit]
- Father's Day (Dominican Republic)
- National Tree Day (Australia)
- Navy Day (Russia)
- Reek Sunday (Ireland)
Movable Western Christian observances[edit]
- Sea Sunday – July 10 (second Sunday in July)
- World Youth Day (Roman Catholicism) July 25–31
- Reek Sunday (Ireland) – July 31 (last Sunday in July)
Movable Eastern Christian observances[edit]
- All Saints of North America – July 3
- Vardavar (Armenia) – July 3 (98 days (14 weeks) after Pascha)
Non-Gregorian observances, 2016[edit]
(please note that all Jewish observances begin at sunset the day prior to the date listed)
- Ramadan (Islamic calendar) - 6 June - 5 July
- Jumat-ul-Wida (Islamic calendar) - July 1
- Quds Day (Islamic calendar) - July 1 (not a Muslim religious holiday but calculated by the Islamic calendar)
- Laylat al-Qadr (Islamic calendar) - July 2 (Sunni only, Shia celebrate a different date)
- Tirgan (Persian calendar) - July 3
- Hecate's Deipnon - (Attic calendar, modern Hellenism (religion)) - July 6[5]
- Eid al-Fitr (Islamic calendar) - July 6
- Noumenia (Attic calendar, modern Hellenism (religion)) - July 6[6]
- Ratha-Yatra (Hinduism, Indian National Calendar) - July 6
- Yom Kippur Katan (Hebrew calendar) - July 6 (optional)
- Rosh Chodesh of Tammuz (Hebrew calendar) - July 7
- First Sermon of Lord Buddha (Bhutan) - July 8
- 3 Tammuz (Hebrew calendar, Chabad sect only) - July 9
- Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahai calendar) - July 9[7]
- Bonalu (Hinduism) - July 10–31
- Feast of Words (Bahai calendar) - July 12[8]
- Kharchi puja (Tripura, India, Hinduism) - July 12[9]
- Bahuda Ekadashi (Hinduism) - July 15
- Chaturmas (Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism) - July 15 - November 15
- Shayani Ekadashi (Hinduism) - July 15[10]
- Aadi Perukku (Tamil calendar, Hinduism) - July 16
- Kark Sankranti (Hinduism) - July 16[11]
- Kronia (Attic calendar, modern Hellenism (religion)) - July 17[12]
- Engineers Day (Nepal, Vikram Samvat calendar) - July 18[13]
- Public bridge holiday before Asalha Puja - July 18 (Sri Lanka[14])
- 12-13 Tammuz (Hebrew calendar, Chabad sect only) - July 18–19
- Asalha Puja (Buddhism) - July 19
- Esala Poya (Sri Lanka) - July 19
- Guru Purnima (Hinduism, Indian National Calendar) - July 19
- Khao Pansa (Laos) - July 19[15]
- Synoikia (Attic calendar, modern Hellenism (religion)) - July 20–21[16]
- Vassa (Buddhism) - July 20 - October 16[17]
- Seventeenth of Tammuz (Hebrew calendar) - July 24
- Ker puja (Hinduism) - July 26[18]
- Kamika Ekadashi (Hinduism) - July 30[19]
- Feast of Perfection (Bahai calendar) - July 31[20]
- Martyrdom of Imam Jafar (Islamic calendar, Shia Islam, public holiday in Iran) - July 31
Fixed Gregorian observances[edit]
- July 1
- Armed Forces Day (Singapore)
- Canada Day (Canada)
- Children's Day (Pakistan)
- Communist Party of China 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Women's Day (Myanmar)
- July 4
- July 5
- Armed Forces Day (Venezuela)
- Bloody Thursday (International Longshore and Warehouse Union)
- Constitution Day (Armenia)
- Emancipation Day (New York City, United States)
- Independence Day (Algeria)
- Independence Day (Cape Verde)
- Independence Day (Venezuela)
- Saints Cyril and Methodius Feast Day (celebrated as a public holiday in Slovakia)
- World Environment Day
- 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, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
- Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
- Tanabata (Japan, Gregorian date, some follow the traditional calendar)
- World Chocolate Day
- July 8
- July 9
- July 10
- July 11
- 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
- Feast of Kalimát (Bahá'í Faith) (only if Naw-Rúz falls on March 21, which it does for 2015)
- Statehood Day (Montenegro)
- July 14
- Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
- Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day. (Sweden)
- Hondurans' Day (Honduras)
- Republic Day (Iraq)
- July 15
- July 16
- July 17
- July 18
- July 19
- Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
- Martyrs' Day (Burma)
- The first day of Lucaria (Roman Empire)
- July 20
- July 21
- July 22
- Foundation Day in Cleveland
- July 23
- July 24
- July 25
- July 26
- July 27
- 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
- July 31
July symbols[edit]
- July's birthstone is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment.
- Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily.
- The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 21) and Leo (July 22 onwards).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.bustle.com/articles/167869-the-shark-week-2016-full-schedule-will-prepare-you-for-a-chomping-good-time
- ^ https://anydayguide.com/calendar/2202
- ^ https://anydayguide.com/calendar/2223
- ^ http://www.wfeo.org/engineersdays/
- ^ http://www.hellenion.org/calendar/2016/2016HellenionCalendar.html
- ^ http://www.hellenion.org/calendar/2016/2016HellenionCalendar.html
- ^ https://badipublishing.com/index.php/holy-days-2016/
- ^ https://badipublishing.com/index.php/holy-days-2016/
- ^ http://tripura.gov.in/holiday/2016
- ^ http://www.festivalsofindia.in/Devshayani-Ekadashi/Index.aspx
- ^ http://www.festivalsofindia.in/Dakshinayana-Sankranti/Index.aspx
- ^ http://www.hellenion.org/calendar/2016/2016HellenionCalendar.html
- ^ http://calendar-nepali.com/
- ^ http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/thailand/index.php
- ^ http://publicholidays.lk/
- ^ http://www.hellenion.org/calendar/2016/2016HellenionCalendar.html
- ^ http://www.watmetta.org/news/Uposatha2016.1.pdf
- ^ http://tripura.gov.in/holiday/2016
- ^ http://www.festivalsofindia.in/MonthWise/
- ^ https://badipublishing.com/index.php/holy-days-2016/
External links[edit]
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