July is the seventh month of the year in the

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and Gregorian calendars and is the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general

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in 44 B.C., it 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

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, 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

, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts. Spring lambs born in late winter or early spring are usually sold before 1 July.

July symbols

July's

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is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment. * Baker's Larkspur (5933879987)

Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the

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. *The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 22) and

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(July 23 onwards).. Signs in UT/GMT for 1950–2030.

Observances

''This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance.'' Breviarium Grimani - Juli

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Fourth of July fireworks behind the Washington Monument, 1986

* Season of Emancipation 14 April to 23 August (Barbados) *

Honor America Days Honor America Days are a United States Federal Observance observed June 14 to July 4. According to 36 U.S.C. § 112, the 21 days from Flag Day through Independence Day (including, as of 2021, the federal holiday of Juneteenth Juneteenth ...

: 14 June to 4 July (United States)

Month-long observances

*In Catholic tradition, July is the Month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. * National Hot Dog Month (United States) *

National Ice Cream Month In the United States, National Ice Cream Month is celebrated each year in July, and National Ice Cream Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in July. The celebrations were originated by Joint resolution 298 in the United States Senate, which was ...

(United States) *

Disability Pride Month Disability Pride Month occurs in the United States every July to commemorate the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. The celebration has been officially recognized by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and ...

(international)

Non-Gregorian observances

''(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.)'' *

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List of observances set by the Chinese calendar The traditional Chinese holidays are an essential part of harvests or prayer offerings. The most important Chinese holiday is the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), which is also celebrated in overseas ethnic Chinese communities (for example in ...

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Movable observances

* Phi Ta Khon (Dan Sai, Loei province, Isan, Thailand) – Dates are selected by village mediums and can take place anywhere between March and July. * Ra o te Ui Ariki ( Cook Islands) July 6 *

Collector Car Appreciation Day Collector Car Appreciation Day (CCAD) is an annual celebration to raise awareness of the role automotive restoration and collection plays in American society. The day was first recognized on July 9, 2010 due, in part, to U.S. Senate resolution S. R ...

(United States) * Senior Citizen's Day ( Kiribati) * Shark Week ( United States) *

Earth Overshoot Day Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. The term " overshoot" represents the level by which h ...

First Friday

* Fishermen's Holiday ( Marshall Islands)

First Saturday

* American Independence Day * Día del Amigo ( Peru) *

International Co-operative Day Co-operative Day is an annual celebration of the co-operative movement observed on the first Saturday in July since 1923 by the International Co-operative Alliance. On December 16, 1992, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed iresoluti ...

* International Free Hugs Day

First Saturday and Sunday

Navy Days Several nations observe or have observed a Navy Day to recognize their navy. By country Argentina The Argentine Navy day is celebrated on May 17, anniversary of the victory achieved in 1814 in the Battle of Montevideo. Bahrain The ...

( Netherlands)

First Sunday

* Navy Day ( Ukraine) * Youth Day ( Singapore)

Sunday closest to 2 July

Alexanderson Day Alexanderson Day, named after the Swedish radio engineer Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson and held either on the last Sunday in June, or on the first Sunday in July, whichever comes closer to 2 July, is the day of the open house at the Swedish go ...

(

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)

First full week in July

* NAIDOC Week (

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

)

First Monday

* CARICOM Day (

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

) * Heroes' Day ( Zambia) * Mother's Day ( South Sudan) * National Day (

Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the ...

)

Third Monday

Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera Puerto Rico celebrates all official holidays of the United States, U.S. holidays, and a number of other official holidays established by the Commonwealth government. Additionally, many municipalities celebrate their own Patron Saint Festivals (' ...

( Puerto Rico, United States) * Children's Day ( Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela) *

Galla Bayramy Public Holidays in Turkmenistan are laid out in the Constitution of Turkmenistan, It acts as a list of nationally recognized public holidays in the country. Main public holidays * New Year's Day (January 1) * International Women's Day (March 8) ...

( Turkmenistan) *

Marine Day , also known as "Ocean Day" or "Sea Day", is a public holiday in Japan usually celebrated on the third Monday in July. The purpose of the holiday is to give thanks for the ocean's bounty and to consider the importance of the ocean to Japan as a ...

(

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

) *

Presidents' Day (Botswana) Presidents' Day is a holiday in Botswana. Since 2006, it has been a one-day holiday held on the third Monday of July. Previous to that, it was a two-day holiday, held on Monday and Tuesday of the 3rd week in July, but the Public Holidays Amendmen ...

Third Sunday

( Turkmenistan) * National Ice Cream Day ( United States)

Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks

Construction Holiday (Quebec) The Construction Holiday (french: Vacances de la construction) is the most popular time for summer vacations in Québec, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean ...

Third Tuesday

( Puerto Rico, United States)

Fourth Sunday

* Parents' Day ( United States)

Friday preceding the Fourth Saturday and the following Sunday

Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival is a popular local Japanese festival (matsuri) which takes place annually in Tobata, a ward of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. It is held for three days (Friday–Sunday) before and after the fourth Saturday of July. The festi ...

( Tobata,

)

Fourth Thursday

* National Chili Dog Day ( United States)

Last Saturday

Black Saturday (France) Black Saturday (''samedi noir'' in French) refers, in France, to the day of the year when road traffic is most dense due to the many departures on holiday. (Traffic problems are exacerbated by France's extreme centralisation, with Paris being th ...

* National Dance Day ( United States)

Last Sunday

* Father's Day ( Dominican Republic) * National Tree Day (

) * Navy Day ( Russia) * Reek Sunday ( Ireland)

Thursday before the first Monday

Emancipation Day Emancipation Day is observed in many former European colonies in the Caribbean and areas of the United States on various dates to commemorate the emancipation of slaves of African descent. On August 1, 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the fir ...

( Bermuda)

= Following Friday

= * Somer's Day ( Bermuda)

Last Friday

* National Schools Tree Day (

) *

System Administrator Appreciation Day System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay, is an annual event created by system administrator Ted Kekatos. The event exists to show appreciation for the work of sysadmins and other IT workers. It is celebrat ...

Fixed Gregorian observances

July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...

** Armed Forces Day ( Singapore) **

Canada Day Canada Day (french: Fête du Canada), formerly known as Dominion Day (french: Fête du Dominion), is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 18 ...

( Canada) **

Children's Day (Pakistan) Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honor of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children's Day was first proclaimed in Geneva during the World Conference on Child Welfare. Sin ...

** Chinese Communist Party Founding Day ( People's Republic of China) **

Day of Officials and Civil Servants Day of officials and civil servants (earlier Day of Officials) is held on every 1 July in Hungary. It was the date when the law XXXIII. of 1992 about officials became effective in the same year. Trade union of Hungarian Officials and State Employee ...

( Hungary) **

Doctors' Day National Doctors' Day is a day celebrated to recognize the contributions of physicians to individual lives and communities. The date varies from nation to nation depending on the event of commemoration used to mark the day. In some nations the da ...

( India) **

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) ** Engineer's Day ( Bahrain, Mexico) **

Feast of the Most Precious Blood The Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a feast, which has been in the General Roman Calendar from 1849 to 1969. It is focused on the Blood of Christ and its salvific nature. History The feast, celebrated in Spain in the ...

(removed from official Roman Catholic calendar since 1969) ** Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day ( Hong Kong,

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) **

Independence Day (Burundi) :This is a list of public holidays in Burundi.Burundi Business Holidays

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(

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) ** Independence Day (Somalia) ** International Tartan Day ** July Morning ( Bulgaria) ** Keti Koti (

) (

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) **

Madeira Day Madeira Day ( pt, Dia da Madeira), celebrated in Madeira on 1 July, is a holiday marking the date when Portuguese explorers arrived in Machico's bay in 1419 and Portugal granted autonomy to Madeira in 1976. It is a public holiday in the Autonomou ...

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, Portugal) **

Moving Day (Quebec) Moving Day (french: jour du déménagement) is a tradition, but not a legal requirement, in the province of Quebec, Canada, dating from the time when the province used to mandate fixed terms for leases of rental properties. It falls on July 1, wh ...

( Canada) ** National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day ( United States) ** National Gingersnap Day ( United States) **

Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day Memorial Day has been observed annually since 1 July 1917, to recall the losses of approximately 700 soldiers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment from the Dominion of Newfoundland at Beaumont-Hamel on the first day on the Somme during the First Worl ...

Republic Day (Ghana) There are approximately thirteen nationally recognized public holidays in Ghana, a sub-Saharan country in Africa. The primary National holiday is Independence Day which is on the 6th of March. It is a National Day and is set to honor the memory of ...

** Sir Seretse Khama Day ( Botswana) **

Territory Day Territory Day is a holiday widely celebrated in the Northern Territory of Australia on 1 July that commemorates the territory achieving self-government in 1978. The holiday has been famously commemorated with fireworks since the early 1980s. Pop ...

( British Virgin Islands) **

Van Mahotsav Van Mahotsav or Vanamahotsava, , is an annual one-week tree-planting festival in India which is celebrated in the first week of July. History This is the Indian national tree planting week was organized by Mohinder Singh Randhawa from 20 to 27 ...

, celebrated until July 7 ( India) * July 2 ** Flag Day (Curaçao) ( Kingdom of the Netherlands) ** Palio di Provenzano ( Siena, Italy) **

Police Day (Azerbaijan) There are several public holidays in Azerbaijan. Public holidays were regulated in the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR for the first time on 19 May 1921. They are now regulated by the Constitution of Azerbaijan. Holidays Main holidays Other ...