IMPORTANT DATES OF A YEAR

New Year Day

1 January Road Safety Week

Army Medical Corps Establishment Day

8 January African National Congress Foundation Day

9 January NRI Day

APSRTC Establishment Day

11 January
Death anniversary of Lai Bahadur Shastri

12 January National Youth Day (Birth day of Swami Vivekanand)

15 January Army Day

Manipur Day

21 January Meghalaya Day

Tripura Day

Desh Prem Divas

23 January
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary

Himachal Pradesh Day

25 January
National Tourism Day

Indian Republic Day

26 January
Jammu & Kashmir Day
 International Customs Day

28 January Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai

Martyr’s Day, Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day

30 January World Leprosy Eradication Day

Sarvodaya Day

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February
National day of Srilanka
2 February
World Wetlands Day

5 February Kashmir Day (Organized by Pakistan)

13 February Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary

14 February St. Valentine’s Day

24 February Central Excise Day

28 February National Science Day

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March
3 March National Defence Day

4 March National Security Day

International Women’s Day

8 March
Mothers Day

9 March CISF Raising Day

12 March Mauritius Day; Central Industrial Security Force Day

13 March No Smoking Day

15 March World Consumer Rights Day, World Disabled Day

16 March National Vaccination Day

17 March St. Patricks Day

18 March Ordnance Factories Day (India)

19 March World Disabled Day

World Forestry Day

21 March
International Day for th eElimination of Racial Discrimination

22 March World Water Day

23 March World Meteorological Day

24 March World TB Day

26 March Bangladesh Liberation Day

27 March World Stage Artists Day

31 March Financial Year Ending

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April
Orissa Day
1 April
Fools Day

3 April World Austism Day

5 April National Maritime Day, International Day for Mine Awareness

7 April World Health Day , WHO started in this day in 1948

8 April World Tradition Day

13 April Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre Day (1919)

14 April B.R. Ambedkar Remembrance Day; Fire Extinguishing Day

17 April World Haemophilia Day

18 April World Heritage Day

21 April Secretaries’ Day, National Civil Services Day

22 April World Earth Day

World Books and Copyright Day

23 April
Easter Day

24 April World Lab Animals Day

25 April National Administrative Professionals Day

29 April World Intellectual Property Day

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May
Gujarat Statehood Day

1 May Workers’ Day (International Labour Day) (May Day)

Maharastra Statehood Day

3 May International Energy Day

 International Sun Day

World Press Freedom Day

4 May Coal Miner’s Day

5 May World Athletics Day

7 May National Institute of Sports Founder’s Day

8 May World Red Cross Day

9 May World Thalassaemia Day

National Resurgence Day

11 May
National Technology Day

12 May International Nurses Day, World Hypertension Day

International Criminal Court Day

13 May
National Solidarity Day

15 May International Family Day

16 May Sikkim Day

17 May World Telecommunications Day

20 May World Metrology Day

21 May Anti Terrorism Day

22 May International Day for Biological Diversity

24 May Commonwealth Day

25 May World Thyroid Day

 Official Language Day
28 May
Telugu People’s Self-respect Day

29 May International Mount Everest Day (Designated by Nepal)

30 May Goa Statehood Day

31 May World No Tobacco Day

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June
1 June International Children’s Day, World Milk Day

3 June World Naturist Day

4 June International Day for Innocent Children, Victims of Aggression

5 June World Environment Day

14 June World Blood Donor Day

21 June Hugging Day

World Music Day

23 June International Olympic Day

International Anti – Drugs Day

26 June
International Day against Drug Abuse and illicit Trafficking

27 June World Diabetes Day

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July
1 July Architecture Day
 Doctor’s Day

International Jokes Day

Vana Mahotsav Week 1-7

2 July World Sports Journalists Day

4 July American Independence Day

6 July World Zonnosis Day

7 July International day of Co-Operatives

11 July World Population Day

20 July Man Walks on the Moon

26 July Kargil Victory Day

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August
1 August World Breast-feeding Week

Hiroshima Day
3 August
Liberation Day

6 August Hiroshima Day

8 August World Senior Citizen’s Day

August Kranti Divas

International day of Solidarity with the strugleof Women in South

9 August
Africa

International day of the world’sIndigenous People

 Nagasaki Day

Quit India Movement Day

10 August Dengue Prevention Day

International Youth Day

12 August
Librarians Day

13 August Left Hander’s Day

14 August Pakistan’s Independence Day

India’s Independence Day

15 August
West Bengal Day

18 August Day of the World’s Indigenous People

19 August World Photography Day

Sadbhavna Divas
20 August
World Mosquito Day

Kolkata’s Birth Day

24 August
Sanskrit Day

26 August Women’s Equality Day

National Sports Day

29 August Sports Day (Dhyanchand’s birthday)

Telugu Language Day

30 August Small Industry Day

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September
1 September Nutrition Week 1-7

2 September Coconut Day

4 September Minority Welfare Day

5 September Teacher’s Day

7 September Forgiveness Day

International Literacy Day (UNESCO)

8 September
World Literacy Day

Haryana Statehood Day

10 September
Punjab Statehood Day

13 September World Flowers Day

14 September Hindi Day, World First Aid Day

Engineers Day
15 September
International Day of Democracy

16 September World Ozone Day

18 September International Day of Peace

Biosphere Day
21 September
World Alzheimer’s Day

22 September Girl Child Week 22-26, Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients)
 Girl Child Day
24 September
World Heart Day

25 September Social Justice Day

26 September CSIR Foundation Day, Day of the Deaf

27 September World Tourism Day

28 September Gunners Day

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October
International Day for the Elderly (UN)

1 October International Music Day

National Voluntary Blood Donation Day

Gandhi Jayanti, International Non-violence Day

Human Rights Protection Day

2 October Prisoner’s Day

World Ostony Day

World Wide Life Week (2-8)

3 October World Nature Day, World Habitat Day

International Mental Health Health Week (4-10)

4 October World Animal Welfare Day

World Space Week(4-10)

5 October World Habitat Day; World Teacher’s Day

6 October World Wildlife Day

Indian Air force Day

8 October
Rapid Action Force Raising Day

National Postal Week(9-14)

9 October
World Postal Day

World Disaster Reduction Day (2nd Wednes Day)

10 October
World Mental Health Day; National Post Day

12 October World Sight Day

World Arthritis Day

13 October
World Calamity Control Day (UN)

14 October World Standards Day

World White Cane Day

15 October
World White cane day (guiding the blind)

World Anaesthesiologists Day

16 October
World Food Day

17 October International Poverty Eradication Day

20 October National Solidarity Day (China attacked India on that day)

Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Day

21 October
Police Commemoration Day
 Disarmament Week(24-30)
24 October
United Nations Day

27 October Infantry Day

30 October World Thrift day

Halloween Day
31 October
National Integration Day

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November
Andhra Pradesh Formation Day

1 November Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab States

Formation Day

5 November International Week of Science and Peace (5-11)

7 November Infant Protection Day; World Cancer Awareness Day

Legal Services Day

9 November Pravasiya Bharatiya Divas/Legal Services Day

Uttaranchal State Formation Day

Forest Martyrs Day

10 November
Transport Day

Armistice Day
11 November
Education Day

12 November National Broadcasting Day

 Children’s Day, World Diabetics day

Cooperative Week

National Book Week

14 November National Land Resources Conservation Week (14-20)

National Library Week

Universal Children’s Day

World Diabetes Day

Jharkhand State Formation Day

15 November New Born Week (15-21)

Thanks Giving Day

International Day for Tolerance

16 November National Press Day

Pharmacy Week (16-22)

Guru Nanak Dev’s Birth Anniversary

17 November
National Epilepsy Day

18 November Territorial Army Day

National Integration Day, Citizen’s Day

19 November
World Heritage Week (19-25)

20 November Universal Children’s dAy (UN), Africa Industrilisation Day

21 November World Fisheries Day

 World Hello Day

World Television Day

25 November International Day against Violence against Women

26 November Law Day, National Law Day

29 November international Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

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December
Border Security Force (BSF) Raising Day

1 December Nagaland Day

World AIDS Day

2 December International Day for Abolition of Slavery (UNO)

International Day of Disabled Persons

3 December
World Conservation Day

Chemical Disaster Prevention Day

4 December
Navy Day

5 December International Volunteers Day

6 December Armed Forces Day, Civil Defence Day

Armed Forces Flag Day

7 December
International Civil Aviation Day

8 December Home Guards Raising Day

 Submarine Day

9 December National Immunization Day

Human Rights Day

10 December
International Childrens Day of Broadcasting

11 December UNICEF Day

12 December Assam Rifles Raising Day

14 December National Energy Conservation Day

16 December Vijay Divas

17 December Pensioner’s Day

International Migrants Day

18 December
Minorities Rights Day (India)

19 December Goa’s Liberation Day

22 December Mathematics Day

23 December Kisan Divas (Farmer’s day)

24 December National Consumer Day

25 December X-Mas Day

26 December Boxing Day

28 December Central Reserve Police Force Anniversary

29 December International Day for Biological Diversity