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July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August )
in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the fourth month to
have the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in
honor of the Roman general, Julius Cæsar, 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.
Observances
This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor
general observance.
July, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de
Berry
Fireworks in Washington, DC, to celebrate
Independence Day on July 4
Season of Emancipation April 14 to August 23 (Barbados)
Honor America Days : June 14 to July 4 (United States)
Month-long observances
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)
Non-Gregorian observances, 2017
(Please note that all Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin
on sundown prior to the date listed, and end on the sundown of
the date in question unless otherwise noted.)
July 2: Day of Sorrow ( Islamic calendar )
July 3: Shia Day of Remembrance: Janab-e-Khadijat-ul-Kubra
married to Muhammed ( Islamic calendar , Shia sect )
July 4: Shia Day of Remembrance: Ghaibat-e-Kubra-e-Imam-e-
Zaman ( Islamic calendar , Shia sect )
July 6-7: 12-13 Tammuz ( Hebrew calendar, Chabad sect only)
July 9: Shia Day of Remembrance: Shahadat of Hamzah in
Battle of Uhud, 3 A.H. ( Islamic calendar , Shia sect )
July 11 - August 1: The Three Weeks ( Hebrew calendar )
July 11: Seventeenth of Tammuz ( Hebrew calendar )
July 22: Shabbat Mevorchim ( Hebrew calendar )
July 23: Yom Kippur Katan ((Hebrew calendar , optional)
July 24-August 1: The Nine Days ( Hebrew calendar )
July 24: Rosh Chodesh of Av / Fast of Aaron ( Hebrew
calendar , fast is optional and is generally only observed by
Chevra kadisha)
July 26: Feast of the First Fruits of Wine ( Hebrew
calendar , Biblical, not celebrated by any modern Jewish
sect)
July 28: Shabbat Chazon ( Hebrew calendar)
July 19: Martyrdom of Imam Jafar ( Islamic calendar , Public
holiday in Iran )
July 23: Shia Day of Remembrance: Birth of Abu Talib ( Islamic
calendar , Shia sect )
July 24: Shia Day of Remembrance: Birth of Janab-e-Masoom-
e-Qum ( Islamic calendar , Shia sect )
July 29: Shia Day of Remembrance: the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
was executed, 6 A.H. ( Islamic calendar , Shia sect )
Movable observances, 2017
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 (United States)
Māori Language Week (New Zealand)
Ra o te Ui Ariki ( Cook Islands)
Collector Car Appreciation Day (United States)
Singapore International Water Week
Senior Citizen's Day (Kiribati)
Engineer's Days (Singapore)
First Saturday: July 1
Día del Amigo ( Peru )
International Co-operative Day
International Free Hugs Day
First Saturday and Sunday: July 1-2
Navy Days ( Netherlands )
First Sunday: July 2
Navy Day ( Ukraine)
Youth Day ( Singapore )
Sunday closest to July 2: July 2
Alexanderson Day ( Sweden )
First Full Week in July: July 2-8
NAIDOC Week ( Australia )
First Monday: July 3
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 4
Unity Day ( Zambia )
July 5 or following Monday if its a weekend: July 5
Tynwald Day ( Isle of Man )
First Friday: July 7
Fishermen's Holiday ( Marshall Islands)
Second Sunday: July 9
Construction Holiday (Quebec) (Canada) begins, lasts two
weeks
Father's Day (Uruguay)
Sea Sunday ( Western Christianity)
Nearest Sunday to July 11
National Day of Commemoration ( Ireland )
Second Thursday
National Tree Day ( Mexico )
Third Sunday
Children's Day ( Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela )
Galla Bayramy ( Turkmenistan)
National Ice Cream Day ( United States )
Third Monday
Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera ( Puerto Rico , United States )
Galla Bayramy ( Turkmenistan)
Marine Day ( Japan )
Mandela Day ( South Africa )
Third Monday and Tuesday
Presidents' Day ( Botswana )
Weekend of fourth Saturday
Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival ( Tobata , Japan )
Fourth Sunday:
Parents' Day ( United States )
Second to Last Sunday
Construction Holiday (Quebec)
Fourth Thursday
National Chili Dog Day ( United States)
Thursday before the first Monday in August
Emancipation Day ( Bermuda )
Following Friday: July 29
Somer's Day ( Bermuda )
Fourth Friday
Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival ( Tobata-ku, Kitakyūshū , Japan )
Last Friday
National Schools Tree Day ( Australia )
System Administrator Appreciation Day
Last Saturday
Black Saturday (France)
National Dance Day ( United States )
Last Sunday: July 30
Father's Day ( Dominican Republic )
National Tree Day ( Australia )
Navy Day ( Russia)
Reek Sunday ( Ireland )
Movable Western Christian observances
Sea Sunday : July 9 (second Sunday in July)
World Youth Day : Next observance is in 2019 ( Roman
Catholicism)
Reek Sunday ( Ireland ): July 31 (last Sunday in July)
Movable Eastern Christian observances
Vardavar : July 23 ( Armenia )
Fixed Gregorian observances
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
Flag Day (Curaçao) (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Palio di Provenzano ( Siena, Italy)
Police Day (Azerbaijan)
World UFO Day
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 ()
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)
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
Arbor Day (New Zealand)
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
Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)
Peter and Fevronia Day ( Russian Orthodox)
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
Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)
Beatles Day ( Liverpool and Hamburg )
Independence Day (Bahamas)
Nikola Tesla Day
Silence Day (Followers of Meher Baba )
Statehood Day (Wyoming)
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
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
Elderly Men Day (Kiribati)
Sultan's Birthday (Brunei Darussalam)
July 16
Holocaust Memorial Day (France)
July 17
July 18
July 19
Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
Martyrs' Day (Burma)
The first day of Lucaria ( Roman Empire)
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
Belgian National Day
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
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
Day of National Significance (Barbados)
Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
Independence Day (Liberia)
Independence Day (Maldives)
Kargil Victory Day (India)
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
Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval (Canada)
Fiestas Patrias (Peru)
Liberation Day (San Marino)
Ólavsøka Eve ( Faroe Islands))
World Hepatitis Day
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)
International Day of Friendship
Día del Amigo (Paraguay)
Independence Day (Vanuatu)
Martyrs Day (South Sudan)
July 31
Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day (Hawaii, United States)
Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh ( Haryana and
Punjab , India)
Treasury Day (Poland)
Warriors' Day (Malaysia)
July symbols
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
22) and Leo (July 23 onwards).