Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/Holidays and observances

This is a more-or-less complete list of holidays and observances that may be included in any of the subpages of Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries. The purpose of this list is to help editors keep track of when the days should be listed, especially those whose dates vary from year to year. Note that the listings may be omitted from the various subpages because of article quality concerns.

Fixed-date and fixed day-of-week

January

Day of month	Listings	Notes
1	New Year's Day in the Gregorian calendar; Independence Day in Brunei (1984), Haiti (1804), and Sudan (1956); Constitution Day in Italy (1948); Founding Day in the Republic of China (1912)
2	Ancestry Day in Haiti
3	none
4	Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression in Angola; Independence Day in Burma (1948)
5	Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)
6	Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); Armed Forces Day in Iraq
7	Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory Day in Cambodia (1979); Flag Day in Italy (1797)
8	Kim Jong-un's Birthday in North Korea
9	Martyrs' Day in Panama (1964); Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines; Republic Day in Republika Srpska (1992)
10	Traditional Day in Benin
11	Proclamation of Independence in Morocco (1944); Eugenio María de Hostos Day in Puerto Rico (1839)
12	National Youth Day in India; Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964); Memorial Day in Turkmenistan (1881)
13	St. Knut's Day (Christianity–Scandinavia)
14	New Year in the Julian calendar; Makar Sankranti in India; National Forest Conservation Day in Thailand
15	Army Day in India; John Chilembwe Day in Malawi; Armed Forces Day in Nigeria; Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea;
16	Magen David Day in Israel; Teachers' Day in Thailand; National Religious Freedom Day in the United States
17	National Day in Minorca (1287)
18	The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins; Royal Thai Armed Forces Day in Thailand; Paryaya Festival at Udupi City	Paryaya is held in even-numbered years
19	Theophany (Julian calendar)
20	Martyr's Day in Azerbaijan (1990); Armed Forces Day in Mali
21	Errol Barrow Day in Barbados; Day of Our Lady of Altagracia in the Dominican Republic; Flag Day in Quebec; National Hug Day in the United States
22	Reunion Day in Ukraine (1919)
23	none
24	Unification Day in Romania (1849)
25	Tatiana Day in Russia; Burns Night in Scots culture; Dydd Santes Dwynwen in Wales
26	Australia Day (1788); Duarte Day in the Dominican Republic (1813); Republic Day in India (1950); Liberation Day in Uganda (1986)
27	Various commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz (1945)
28	Army Day in Armenia
29	Constitution Day in Gibraltar
30	School Day of Non-violence and Peace; Martyrs' Day in India
31	Independence Day in Nauru (1968)
2nd Monday	Coming of Age Day in Japan
2nd Saturday	Children's Day in Thailand
3rd Monday	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States

February

Day of month	Listings	Notes
1	Imbolc in the Northern Hemisphere; Lughnasadh in the Southern Hemisphere; Federal Territory Day in the Federal Territories of Malaysia; National Freedom Day in the United States
2	World Wetlands Day; Candlemas in Western Christianity; Groundhog Day in Canada and the United States; Constitution Day in the Philippines (1987)
3	Setsubun in Japan; Heroes' Day in Mozambique; Martyrs' Day in São Tomé and Príncipe; Four Chaplains' Day in the United States
4	World Cancer Day; Day of the Armed Struggle in Angola (1961); Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948)
5	Constitution Day in Mexico (1917); Kashmir Day in Pakistan
6	Sami National Day in Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden (1917); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)
7	Independence Day in Grenada (1974)
8	Prešeren Day in Slovenia (1949)
9	none
10	Fenkil Day in Eritrea (1990); National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe in Italy
11	World Day of the Sick (Roman Catholic Church); Youth Day in Cameroon; Victory of the Revolution in Iran (1979), National Foundation Day in Japan (660 BC); National Inventors' Day in the United States
12	Darwin Day; Red Hand Day; Union Day in Burma (1947); Lincoln's Birthday in parts of the United States; Youth Day in Venezuela (1814)
13	none
14	Valentine's Day; Statehood Day in Arizona (1912) and Oregon (1859)
15	Nirvana Day (Mahayana Buddhism); Candlemas (Eastern Christianity); Flag Day in Canada; National Day in Serbia; Total Defence Day in Singapore; Susan B. Anthony Day in the United States
16	Statehood Day in Lithuania (1918); Kim Jong-il's Birthday in North Korea
17	Independence Day in Kosovo (2007)
18	Independence Day in The Gambia (1965)
19	Commemoration of Vasil Levski in Bulgaria; Armed Forces Day in Mexico; Flag Day in Turkmenistan
20	World Day of Social Justice
21	International Mother Language Day; Language Movement Day in Bangladesh
22	Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979)
23	National Day in Brunei (1984); Republic Day/Mashramani in Guyana (1970); Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia and several other former Soviet republics
24	Independence Day in Estonia (1918); Flag Day in Mexico; Dragobete in Romania; National Artist Day in Thailand
25	Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1950); EDSA Revolution Anniversary in the Philippines (1986)
26	Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991); Ayyám-i-Há begins (Baháʼí calendar); Saviours' Day in the Nation of Islam
27	Independence Day in the Dominican Republic (1844)
28	Rare Disease Day; Teachers' Day in Arab countries; Kalevala Day in Finland; National Science Day in India; Peace Memorial Day in Taiwan (1947)
29	none	Leap day redirects to February 29
3rd Monday	Family Day in various regions of Canada; Washington's Birthday/Presidents Day in the United States

March

Day of month	Listings	Notes
1	Self-injury Awareness Day; Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Martenitsa in Bulgaria; Beer Day in Iceland; Mărţişor in Romania and Moldova; Samiljeol in South Korea; Saint David's Day in Wales;
2	The Nineteen Day Fast begins (Baháʼí Faith); Peasants Day in Burma; Adwa Victory Day in Ethiopia; Independence Day in Texas (1836)
3	Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Sportsmen's Day in Egypt; Mother's Day in Georgia; Girls' Day in Japan
4	Saint Casimir's Day in Lithuania and Poland
5	St Piran's Day in Cornwall (United Kingdom); National Tree Planting Day in Iran; Lei Feng Day in the People's Republic of China
6	Independence Day in Ghana (1957); Foundation Day in Norfolk Island (Australia); Alamo Day in Texas
7	Teachers' Day in Albania
8	International Women's Day; Mother's Day in various European countries; Revolution Day in Syria
9	Teachers' Day in Lebanon
10	Tibetan Uprising Day
11	Moshoeshoe Day in Lesotho; Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)
12	World Day Against Cyber Censorship; Arbor Day in China and Taiwan; Independence Day in Mauritius (1968); Youth Day in Zambia
13	none
14	New Year's Day (Sikhs); White Day in various East Asian countries; Constitution Day in Andorra (1993); Mother Tongue Day in Estonia; Heroes' Day in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Pi Day
15	Ides of March; World Consumer Rights Day; World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film; Constitution Day in Belarus; National Day in Hungary (1848); Hōnen Matsuri in Japan
16	Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans); Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires; Day of the Book Smugglers in Lithuania
17	Saint Patrick's Day; Boxer's Day in Thailand
18	Flag Day in Aruba; Men's and Soldiers' Day in Mongolia
19	Saint Joseph's Day (Western Christianity); Father's Day in various countries
20	International Francophonie Day; Independence Day in Tunisia (1956)
21	International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; World Down Syndrome Day; World Poetry Day; Naw-Rúz (Baháʼí calendar); Mother's Day in Arab countries; Harmony Day in Australia; Independence Day in Namibia (1990); Truant's Day in Poland; Human Rights Day in South Africa; Youth Day in Tunisia
22	World Water Day; Emancipation Day in Puerto Rico
23	World Meteorological Day; Day of Hungarian–Polish Friendship in Hungary and Poland; Republic Day in Pakistan (1956)
24	World Tuberculosis Day; Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in Argentina (1976)
25	Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity); Freedom Day in Belarus (1918); Independence Day in Greece (1821); Maryland Day in Maryland (1634); Struggle for Human Rights Day in Slovakia (1988); Mother's Day in Slovenia; Waffle Day in Sweden; Tolkien Reading Day	Annunciation may be moved if on a Sunday or if during Holy Week
26	Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Eastern Christianity); Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971); Prince Kūhiō Day in Hawaii (1871)
27	Tatmadaw Day in Burma
28	Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia; Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet
29	Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Day of the Young Combatant in Chile (1985); Youth Day in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1911)
30	Land Day (Palestinians); Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago; National Doctors' Day in the United States
31	Freedom Day in Malta; Thomas Mundy Peterson Day in New Jersey (1870); King Nangklao Memorial Day in Thailand (1787); César Chávez Day in various U.S. states (1927); Transfer Day in the U.S. Virgin Islands
1st Monday	Casimir Pulaski Day in Illinois
2nd Monday	Canberra Day in the Australian Capital Territory; Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations
around March 20	March Equinox; World Storytelling Day; Nowruz (Iranians, Kurds and Zoroastrians); Vernal Equinox Day in Japan
3rd Monday	Benito Juárez Day in Mexico
last Saturday	Earth Hour (20:30 local time in various areas)
last Monday	Seward's Day in Alaska

April

Day of month	Listings	Notes
1	April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year; National Day in Iran (1979); Edible Book Day
2	World Autism Awareness Day; Malvinas Day in Argentina
3	none
4	Day of Peace and Reconciliation in Angola; Independence Day in Senegal (1960); Children's Day in Taiwan and Hong Kong
5	none
6	Tartan Day in Canada and the United States; Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand (1782); New Beer's Eve in the United States
7	World Health Day; Genocide Memorial Day in Rwanda; Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day in Tanzania (1972)
8	International Romani Day; Hanamatsuri in Japan; Draw a Bird Day
9	Vimy Ridge Day in Canada; Occupation of Denmark Remembrance Day in Denmark; Day of the Finnish Language in Finland; Day of National Unity in Georgia (1989); Araw ng Kagitingan in the Philippines
10	none
11	Juan Santamaría Day in Costa Rica
12	Global Day of Action on Military Spending; Yuri's Night; Cosmonautics Day in Russia
13	Songkran begins in Thailand; Jefferson's Birthday in the United States
14	N'Ko Alphabet Day in West Africa; Day of the Georgian language in Georgia (1978)
15	Father Damien Day in Hawaii; Birthday of the Great Leader in North Korea; Tax Day in the United States
16	Queen Margrethe II's birthday in Denmark; Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C.
17	World Hemophilia Day; Evacuation Day in Syria
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2nd Friday	Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
3rd Monday	Patriots' Day in Maine and Massachusetts
3rd Thursday	Administrative Professionals' Day in various European countries
Wednesday of last full week	Administrative Professionals' Day in the United States

May

Day of month	Listings	Notes
1
2
3
4
5	Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day
6
7
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10
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28	Downfall of the Derg in Ethiopia
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31

October

Day of month	Listings	Notes
1	National Day in the People's Republic of China (1949); Independence Day in Cyprus and Nigeria (both 1960), Tuvalu (1978) and Palau (1994)
2
3
4
5
6	German-American Day in the United States
7	Teachers' Day in Albania
8	International Women's Day; Mother's Day in various European countries; Revolution Day in Syria
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1st Monday	Labour Day in Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia
2nd Monday	Thanksgiving in Canada; Health and Sports Day in Japan; Columbus Day in the United States
4th Monday	Labour Day in New Zealand

November

Day of month	Listings	Notes
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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10
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13
14
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17
18
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25
26
27
28
29
30
31
2nd Sunday	Remembrance Sunday in the United Kingdom
4th Thursday	Thanksgiving in the United States;
4th Saturday	Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine

December

Day of month	Listings	Notes
1
2
3	United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities
4
5
6
7
8	Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Day in Ethiopia
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31

Moveable days

See also Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/moveable feasts for dates based around Easter in Western Christianity.

Listed in order of the first possible day.

When	Listings	Notes
First week of January	Perihelion
around January 13 to 15	Pongal for Tamils
anywhere from January through February	Tu Bishvat in Judaism	15th of Shevat
anywhere from late January through mid-February	Lunar New Year in the Chinese calendar
between January 29 and March 4	Fat Thursday	52 days before Easter
first week of February	Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins
between February 2 and March 8	Shrove Monday/Lundi Gras	48 days before Easter
between February 3 and March 9	Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras	47 days before Easter
between February 4 and March 10	Ash Wednesday	46 days before Easter
between February 8 and March 14	Feast of Orthodoxy (Eastern Christianity)	42 days before Easter
between February 9 and March 15	Clean Monday/First day of Great Lent (Eastern Christianity)	41 days before Easter
anywhere from mid-February to early March	Lantern Festival (Chinese calendar)	15 days after Lunar New Year
late February to mid-March	Fast of Esther (Judaism)	13th of Adar; if this is a Saturday, then it is observed on the preceding Thursday
late February to mid-March	Purim (Judaism)	14th of Adar (begins at sundown on the 13th)
late February to mid-March	Shushan Purim in Jerusalem and Susa (Judaism)	15th of Adar
late February to mid-March	Holi (Hinduism)	last full day of Phalguna
between March 1 and April 4	Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity); Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom	4th Sunday of Lent
between March 8 and April 11	Passion Sunday (Anglicanism)	5th Sunday of Lent
between March 14 and April 17	Lazarus Saturday/Start of Holy Week (Eastern Christianity)	one day before Palm Sunday
between March 15 and April 18	Palm Sunday (Christianity)
between March 19 and April 22	Maundy Thursday (Christianity)	Thursday before Easter
between March 21 and April 24	Holy Saturday (Christianity)	one day before Easter
between March 22 and April 25	Easter (Christianity)
between March 23 and April 26	Easter Monday (Christianity); Sham el-Nessim in Egypt; Family Day in South Africa
late March to mid-April	Gudi Padwa and Ugadi in various parts of India	1st day of Chaitra
late March to mid-April	Cheti Chand (Sindhis)	2nd day of Chaitra
late March to mid-April	Rama Navami (Hinduism)	9th day of Chaitra
between March 28 and May 2	Easter Saturday (Western Christianity)	Saturday after Easter
between March 29 and May 9	Divine Mercy Sunday (Roman Catholicism); Antipascha (Eastern Christianity)	1 week after Easter
around April 5	Qingming Festival (Chinese calendar); Hansik in South Korea	15 days after the equinox
early April to early May	Yom HaShoah (Judaism)	27 of Nisan
April 13, 14, or 15	Visakhi (Sikhism); Bengali New Year; Tamil New Year;
mid-April to early May	Festival of Mazu (Chinese calendar)	23rd day of 3rd lunar month
mid-April to mid-May	Yom Hazikaron in Israel	4th of Iyar; if this is a Thursday or Friday, then this is observed on Wednesday; if this is a Sunday, then it is moved to Monday
mid-April to mid-May	Yom Ha'atzmaut in Israel	5th of Iyar; if this is a Friday or Saturday, then this is observed on Thursday; if this is a Monday, then it is moved to Tuesday
late-April to early-June	Vesak (Buddhism)	Full moon of the month Vesākha
mid-September to mid-October	Double Ninth Festival (Chinese calendar)	9th day of 9th lunar month
mid-September to mid-October	Vijayadashami (India and Nepal);	10th of Ashvin
mid-September to mid-October	Yom Kippur (Judaism)	10th of Tishrei
mid-September to late October	Sukkot (Judaism)	begins 15th of Tishrei (7 days long)
late September to late October	Shemini Atzeret (Judaism)	22nd of Tishrei
late September to late October	Simchat Torah (Judaism)	23rd of Tishrei
mid-October to mid-December	Diwali (Hindu)	A new moon night
mid-November to mid-December	Bodhi Day (Buddhism)	8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar
between November 20 and 26	Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic Church)	Sunday before Advent begins
between November 27 and December 3	Advent begins (Western Christianity)	4th Sunday before December 25
late November to mid-December	National Day in Burma	10th day following the full moon of the month of Tazaungmone
December	Hanukkah (Judaism)	begins 25th of Kislev (8 days long)
mid-December to mid-January	Tenth of Tevet (Judaism)	10th of Tevet
December 20 to 22	December solstice' ([time] UTC, [year]); Dongzhi, Yalda, Yule, and other winter solstice festivals (Northern Hemisphere, year); Midsummer festivities (Southern Hemisphere, year)

Islamic holidays

The Islamic calendar is shorter than the Gregorian year, so each observance will occur earlier in the Gregorian calendar every year by about 10–12 days.

2011 date	2012 date	Listings	Notes
Jan 25	Jan 14	Arba'een in Shi'a Islam	20th of Safar (40 days after Day of Ashura)
Feb 15	Feb 4	Mawlid in Sunni Islam	12th of Rabi'-ul-Awwal
Feb 20	Feb 11	Mawlid in Shi'a Islam	17th of Rabi'-ul-Awwal
Jun 29	Jun 17	Isra and Mi'raj (Islam)	27th day of Rajab
Jul 19	Jul 7	Laylat al Bara'at (Islam)	15th day of Sha'aban
Aug 1	Jul 20	1 Ramadan (Islam)	1st of Ramadan
Aug 17	Aug 6	Muhammad's first revelation (Islam)	17th / 21st of Ramadan
Aug 27		Laylat al-Qadr (Islam)	27th day of Ramadan
Aug 30	Aug 19	Eid ul-Fitr (Islam)	1st of Shawwal
Nov 4		First day of Hajj (Islam)	begins 8th of Dhu al-Hijjah (3 days)
Nov 5		Day of Arafa (Islam)	9th of Dhu al-Hijjah
Nov 6		Eid al-Adha (Islam)	begins 10th of Dhu al-Hijjah (3 days)
Nov 14		Eid al-Ghadeer (Islam)	18th of Dhu al-Hijjah
Nov 20		Eid al-Mubahila (Islam)	24th of Dhu al-Hijjah
Nov 26		Islamic New Year; Mourning of Muharram begins	1st of Muharram
Dec 5		Day of Ashura (Islam)	10th of Muharram