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Important Dates from January
Date
Event
• 1st January
Global Family Day
• 4th January
World Braille Day
• 6th January
National Technology Day, World War Orphans Day
• 8th January
African National Congress Foundation Day
• 9th January
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas NRI Day
• 10th January
World Hindi Day ,World Laughter Day,
• 11th January
Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri,
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Important Dates from January
Date
• 12th January
Event
National Youth Day (Birth Day of Swami
Vivekanand)
• 13th January
Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti
• 14th January
Lohri, Makar Sankranti
• 15th January
• 19th January
Indian Army Day
NDRF Raising Day (National Disaster Relief Force)
• 23rd January
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose birthday
• 24th January
National Girl Child day of India
• 25th January
International Customs Duty Day,
India Tourism Day, National Voters Day
Important Dates from January
Date
Event
• 26th January
Republic Day of India, International Customs
day.
• 27th January
International Holocaust Day (The largest Nazi death
camp, Auschwitz- Birkenau was liberated by Soviet
troops on Jan 27, 1945.)
• 28th January
Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai,
Data protection day.
• 30th January
Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day (Martyr’s day)
World Leprosy Eradication Day
Important Dates from February
Date
Event
• 1st February
Indian Coast Guard Day , World Epilepsy Day,
Kalpana Chawala’s Death Aniversary
• 2nd February
World Wetlands Day
• 4th February
World Cancer Day , National Day of Sri Lanka
• 7th February
• 11th February
International Development Week, Safe Internet Day
World Day of the Sick
• 2nd Sunday
of February World Marriage Day
• 12th February
Darwin Day,
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
Important Dates from February
Date
• 13th February
Event
Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary
• 14th February
Valentine's Day, Pulwama Attack Day (Black Day)
• 18th February
Taj Mahotsav
• 20th February
World Day of Social Justice
• 21st February
International Mother Language Day
• 22nd February
World Scout Day
• 23rd February
World peace and understanding day
• 24th February
Central Excise Day
• 27th February
World Sustainable Energy Day, World NGO Day
• 28th February
National Science Day , Rare Disease Day
Important Dates from March
Date
Event
• 1st March
Zero Discrimination Day,
World Civil Defence Day
• 3rd March
World Wildlife Day , World Hearing Day
• 4th March
National Safety Day
• 8th March
International Women’s Day
• 10th March
CISF Raising Day
• March
No Smoking Day
(Second Wednesday of March)
Important Dates from March
Date
• 14th March
Event
Pi Day , International Day of Action for Rivers
• 15th March
World Consumer Rights Day
• 16th March
National Vaccination Day
• 18th March
Ordnance Factories Day (India)
• 20th March
• 21st March
International Day of Happiness, World Sparrow Day
World Forestry Day, World Down syndrome Day,
World Poetry Day
• 22nd March
World Water Day
• 23rd March
World Meteorological Day, Shaheed Diwas/ Martyrs
Day (Martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru & Sukhdev)
Important Dates from March
Date
Event
• 24th March World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
• 27th March World Theatre Day
Important Dates from April
Date
Event
•1st April
Orissa Day, Prevention of Blindness week
• 2nd April
World Autism Awareness Day
• 4th April
International Day for Mine Awareness
• 5th April
National Maritime Day
• 7th April
World Health Day
• 10th April
World Homeopathy Day
Important Dates from April
Day
Event
•11th April
National Safe Motherhood Day, National Pet Day
• 13th April
Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre Day (1919)
• 17th April
World Haemophilia Day
• 18th April
World Heritage Day
• 21st April
National Civil Service Day
• 22nd April
World Earth Day
• 23rd April
World Book and Copyright Day
• 24th April
National Panchayati Raj Day
Important Dates from April
Day
Event
•25th April
World Malaria Day
• 26th April
World Intellectual Property Day
• 27th April
World Veterinary Day
• 28th April
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
• 29th April
International Dance Day
• 30th April
Ayushman Bharat Diwas
Important Dates from May
Date
Event
• 1st May
International Labour Day, Maharashtra & Gujarat Day
• 3rd May
Press Freedom Day
• 4th May
Coal miner’s day, International Fire-fighters Day
• May
World Asthma Day (1st Tuesday)
• May
Mother’s Day (2nd Sunday)
• 7th May
World Athletics Day
• 8th May
World Red Cross Day, World Thalassaemai Day
• 9th May
Victory day
• 11th May
National Technology Day
• 12th May
International Nurses day
Important Dates from May
Date
Event
• 14th May
World Migratory day
• 15th May
International Day of the Family
• 17th May
World Telecommunication Day (Information Society
Day),
World Hypertension Day
• 21st May
Anti-terrorism day
• 24th May
Commonwealth Day
• 31st May
Anti-Tobacco Day
Important Dates from June
Date
Event
• 1st June
Global Parents Day, World Milk Day
• 3rd June
World Bicycle Day
• 4th June
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression
• 5th June
World Environment Day
• 8th June
World ocean day
• 12th June World day against child Labour
• 14th June World blood donor day
• 17th June World day to combat desertification and drought
Important Dates from June
Date
Event
• 20th June World Refugee day
• 21st June
International Day of Yoga, World Music day
• 23rd June United Nation’s public service day
• 26th June International day against Drug abuse & Illicit Trafficking
Important Dates from July
Date
• 1st July
• July
(1st Saturday)
Event
National Doctor’s day
World UFO day, World Sports Journalists Day
International Day of Cooperatives
Important Dates from July
Date
Event
• 4th July
American Independence day
• 6th July
World Zoonoses Day
• 11th July
World Population Day
• 12th July
World Malala day
• 18th July
Nelson Mandela International Day
• 28th July
World Nature conservation day
• 29th July
International Tiger Day
Important Dates from August
Date
Event
• 2nd August
International Friendship Day
• 3rd August
Independence day of Niger
• 6th August
Hiroshima Day
• 9th August
International day of World’s indigenous
people, Quit India Day and Nagasaki Day
• 12th August
International Youth day
• 15th August
Independence Day
• 19th August
World Photography day, World Humanitarian Day
• 20th August
Sadbhavna Diwas (Birth Anniversary of Rajiv
Gandhi)
Important Dates from August
Date
• 23rd August
Event
International Day for the remembrance of the slave
• 29th August
trade and its abolition
National Sports Day, International Day against
Nuclear test
• 30th August
Small Industry Day
Important Dates from September
Date
Event
• 1st September National Nutrition Week
• 5th September Teachers’ Day (Dr. Radhakrishnan’s birthday),
Forgiveness day
• 8th September World Literacy Day
Important Dates from September
Date
• 14th September
• 15th September
Event
Hindi day, World First Aid Day,
World Fraternity and Apology Day
Engineer’s day in India (Birthday of M.
Vishweshwaraiya), International Day of Democracy
• 16th September
World Ozone Day
• 21st September
Alzheimer’s Day, International day of peace
• 23rd September
International Day of Sign Language, Autumn Equinox
• (Last Saturday) Sep
World River Day
• 25th September
Social justice day
• 26th September
Day of the Deaf
• 27th September
World Tourism Day
• 29th September
World Heart Day
Important Dates from October
Date
Event
• 1st October
International day of the Older person
• 2nd October
Mahatma Gandhi Birthday (International day of non-violence),
Birthday of Lal Bahadur Shastri
• First Monday
World Habitat Day
• 3rd October
World nature day
• 4th October
World Animal Welfare Day
• 5th October
World Teacher’s day
• 6th October
World Wildlife day, World Food Security day
• 8th October
Indian Air Force Day
• 9th October
World Post Office day
• 10th October
National Post Day
• 11th October
International girl child day, Birthday of Jay Prakash Narayan
• 12th October
World Arthritis day
• 13th October
UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
Important Dates from October
Date
Event
• 14th October
World Standards Day
•15th October
World White Cane Day, World Students’ Day
•16th October
World Food Day
•17th October
International day for the eradication of poverty
•20th October
World statistics day
•24th October
UN Day, World development information Day
•30th October
World ‘Thrift / Saving’ Day
•31st October
Rastriya Ekta Diwas (in memory of Sardar Patel),
National Integration Day (In memory of Indira Gandhi)
Important Dates from November
Date
• 1st November
• 5th November
• 6th November
Event
• 16th November
World vegan day
World Radiography day
International Day for preventing the exploitation of
Environment in War and Armed Conflicts
Infant Protection day , World Cancer Awareness Day
World services day
Transport Day
National Education Day (Birthday of Maulana Azad)
Children’s Day in India, Jawaharlal Nehru birthday,
World Diabetes Day
International day for Tolerance, National Press Day
• 17th November
• 18th November
• 19th November
National Journalism day
World Adult day
World Citizen day
• 7th November
• 9th November
• 10th November
• 11th November
• 14th November
Important Dates from November
Date
• 20th November
• 21st November
• 25th November
• 26th November
• 29th November
Event
Africa Industrialization Day, Universal children day
World Television day, World Fisheries day
World Non-veg day
Law day, World Environment Protection Day
International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
Important Dates from December
Date
• 1st December
• 2nd December
• 3rd December
Event
World AIDS Day
World Computer literacy day, International day of abolition
of slavery
International Day of People with disabilities,
World conservation day
Important Dates from December
Date
• 4th December
• 5th December
• 7th December
• 9th December
• 10th December
• 11th December
• 14th December
• 18th December
• 19th December
• 22nd December
• 23rd December
• 24th December
• 25th December
Event
Navy Day
International volunteer day for economic and
social development
Armed Forces Flag Day, International civil aviation day
The International day against corruption
Human Right Day
International Mountain day
International Energy day
International Migrants day
Goa’s liberation day
National Mathematics Day
Kisan Divas
National Consumer Day
Christmas