July

July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian 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 Julius Caesar 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.[1]

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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.

"Dog days" are considered to begin in early July in the Northern Hemisphere, 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
  • Ruby gemstone
    July's birthstone is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment.
  • Blue delphinium (Larkspur)
    White water lily
    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).[2][3]

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 14 April to 23 August (Barbados)
  • Honor America Days: 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 (United States)
  • Disability Pride Month (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.)

  • List of observances set by the Bahá'í calendar
  • List of observances set by the Chinese calendar
  • List of observances set by the Hebrew calendar
  • List of observances set by the Islamic calendar
  • List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar
Canada Day is celebrated on July 1

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[4]
  • Collector Car Appreciation Day (United States)
  • Senior Citizen's Day (Kiribati)[5]
  • Shark Week (United States)
  • Earth Overshoot Day
  • See also Movable Western Christian observances
  • See also Movable Eastern Christian observances

First Friday

First Saturday

First Saturday and Sunday

First Sunday

Sunday closest to 2 July

First full week in July

First Monday

5 July or following Monday if it's a weekend

Day after first Monday

Second Thursday

Second Sunday
  • Father's Day (Uruguay)
  • Sea Sunday (Western Christianity)

Nearest Sunday to 11 July
  • National Day of Commemoration (Ireland)

Third Monday

Third Sunday

Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks
  • Construction Holiday (Quebec)

Third Tuesday

Fourth Sunday

Friday preceding the Fourth Saturday and the following Sunday
  • Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival (Tobata, Japan)

Fourth Thursday

Last Saturday

Last Sunday

Thursday before the first Monday
Following Friday

Last Friday
  • National Schools Tree Day (Australia)
  • System Administrator Appreciation Day

Fixed Gregorian observances
  • July 1
  • July 2
  • 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)
    • Stay out of the Sun Day
  • July 4
  • 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)
    • 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, 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
  • 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
    • Statehood Day (Montenegro)
  • July 14
  • July 15
  • July 16
    • Engineer's Day (Honduras)
    • Holocaust Memorial Day (France)
  • July 17
    • International Firgun Day
    • Constitution Day (Finland)
  • July 18
    • Constitution Day (Uruguay)
    • Nelson Mandela International Day
  • July 19
    • Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
    • Martyrs' Day (Burma)
  • 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
    • Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
  • July 22
  • 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
  • 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)
      • Día del Amigo (Paraguay)
    • Independence Day (Vanuatu)
    • Martyrs Day (South Sudan)
  • July 31

See also
  • List of historical anniversaries

References
  1. "Keeping Time: Months and the Modern Calendar". Live Science. 16 May 2014.
  2. The Earth passed the junction of the signs at 08:36 UT/GMT July 22, 2020, and will pass it again at 14:26 UT/GMT July 22, 2021.
  3. "Astrology Calendar", yourzodiacsign. Signs in UT/GMT for 1950–2030.
  4. "Ra o te Ui Ariki in the Cook Islands / July 6, 2021".
  5. "Marrow Donor Day in Armenia / January 8, 2021".
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