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Janu
ary 1
Global Family DayPublic Domain DayWorld Day of PeaceSudan Independence
Day (1956)New Year’s Day
2 3 4World Braille DayWorld Hypnotism
Day
5 6 7 8 9 10 11International Thank
You Day
12 13 14 15 16 17 18World Religion Day
19 20 21 22 23 24 25International
Internet-Free DayWorld Leprosy Day
26International Customs Day
27International Day
of Commemoration in Memory of the
Victims of the Holocaust
National Police Day
28International Data
Privacy Day
29 30 31
Febr
uary 1 2
World Wetlands Day3 4
World Cancer Day5 6
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital
Mutilation
7 8World Yoga Day
9 10Safer Internet Day
11 12Darwin Day
13 14Congenital Heart Defect Awareness
DayDress Red Day Valentine’s Day
15International
Childhood Cancer Day
16 17World Community
Arts Day
18Gambia
Independence Day (1965)
19 20World Day of Social
Justice
21International Mother
Language DayInternational
Tourist Guide Day
22World Thinking Day
National Healthy Lifestyles Day
23 24 25 26 27 28Rare Disease Day
Mar
ch
1International
Children’s Day of Broadcasting
International Death Penalty Abolition
Day International
Women of Colour Day
2 Africa Union Day
Morocco Independence Day
(1956)
3 International Sex Worker Rights DayMusic Freedom DayAfrica Environment
Day
4World Maths Day
5World Book DayNational Missing Children’s Day
6World Day of PrayerGhana Independence
Day (1957)
7 8 United Nations Day for Women’s Rights
and International Peace / International
Women’s Day
9Commonwealth Day
10 11 12World Glaucoma Day
World Kidney DayMauritius
Independence Day (1968)
13 14International Day of
Action for Rivers
15World Consumers
Rights Day
16 17 18 19 20 International Earth
DayWorld Film
Photography DayWorld Leadership
Day World Storytelling
DayTunisia
Independence Day (1956)
21International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination World Down
Syndrome DayWorld Forestry Day
World Home Economics Day
World Poetry DayNamibia
Independence Day (1990)
Human Rights Day
22World Day for Water
23World
Meteorological Day
24World Tuberculosis
Day
25Document Freedom
DayInternational Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic
Slave Trade
26 27World Theatre Day
28 29 30 31
April
1 2International
Children’s Book DayWorld Autism
Awareness Day
3 4International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine
Action Senegal
Independence Day (1960)
5 6 7World Health Day
8 9 10Good Friday
11World Parkinson’s
Disease Day
12 13Family Day
14 15 16World Voice Day
17International Day of Farmers Struggle
World Haemophilia Day
18International Day
for Monuments and Sites
Zimbabwe Independence Day
(1980)
19 20 21International Creativity and Innovation Day
22World Earth Day
23World Book and Copyright Day
24Global Youth Service
Day
25World Malaria DayWorld Veterinary
DayAfrica Malaria Day
26World Intellectual
Property DayWorldwide Pinhole Photography Day
Tanzania Union Day (1964)
27Freedom DaySierra Leone
Independence Day (1961)
Togo Independence Day (1960)
28International
Workers’ Memorial Day
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
29International Dance
DayInternational Noise
Awareness Day
30
May
1International Workers’ DayWorkers’ Day
2 3International Dawn
Chorus DayWorld Press Freedom Day
4International
Firefighters’ Day
5International Day of
the MidwifeWorld Asthma Day
6International No
Diet Day
7World AIDS Orphans
Day
8World Red Cross Red Crescent Day
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost
Their Lives during the Second World
War
9Time of
Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost
Their Lives during the Second World
WarEurope Day
World Fair Trade DayWorld Migratory
Bird Day
10World Lupus DayWorld Move for
Health DayMother’s Day
11 12International
Awareness Day for Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome International Nurses
Day
13 14 15International
Conscientious Objectors’ Day
International Day of Families
16International Day for Sharing Life Stories
World Debt Day
17International
AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day
International Day Against Homophobia
World Information Society Day
18HIV Vaccine
Awareness DayInternational Museum Day
19World Hepatitis Day
20World Metrology DayCameroon Republic
Day (1972)
21World Day for
Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and
Development
22International Day for Biological Diversity
23 24Eritrea
Independence Day (1993)
25International Missing
Children’s DayAfrica Day
26 27 28International Day of Action for Women’s
HealthEthiopia National
Day (1991)
29International Day of United Nations
Peacekeepers
30 31Global Day of Prayer
World No-Tobacco Day
June
1International
Children’s Day
2 3 4International
Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression
5World Environment
Day
6 World Drawing Day
7 8World Oceans Day
9 10 11 12World Day Against
Child Labour
13 14World Blood Donor
Day
15International Justice
DayWorld Elder Abuse
Awareness Day
16International Day of
the African ChildYouth Day
17World Day to Combat Desertification and
Drought
18 19 20World Refugee DayAfrica Refugee Day
21Father’s Day
National Epilepsy Day
Get Tested Day
22 23United Nations
Public Service DayAfrica Public Service
Day
24 25Mozambique
Independence Day (1975)
26International Day
against Drug Abuse and Illicit TraffickingInternational Day in
Support of Victims of Torture
United Nations Charter DayMadagascar
Independence Day (1960)
Acceptance of Freedom Charter
(1955)
27 28 29World Industrial
Design DaySeychelles
Independence Day (1976)
Democratic Republic of the
Congo Independence Day (1960)
30
July
1Burundi
Independence Day (1962)
Rwanda Independence Day
(1962)Somali
Independence Day (1960)
2 3 4International Day of
Cooperatives
5Cape Verde
Independence Day (1975)
6Comoros
Independence Day (1975)Malawi
Independence Day (1964)
7 8 9 10 11World Population
Day
12Sao Tome & Principe Independence Day
(1975)
13 14 15 16 17World Day for
International Justice
18 19 20 21 22 23Egypt Revolution
Day (1952)
24 25 26Liberia
Independence Day (1847)
27 28 29 30 31
Augu
st 1Benin Independence
Day (1960)
2International
Friendship Day
3 4 5Burkina Faso
Independence Day (1960)
6 7Cote d’Ivoire
Independence Day (1960)
8 9International Day
of the World’s Indigenous PeopleNational Women’s
Day
10 11Chad Independence
Day (1960)
12International Youth
Day
13International
Lefthanders Day
14 15Republic of the
Congo Independence Day (1960)
16 17SADC Day
Gabon Independence Day
(1960)
18 19World Photography
Day
20 21 22 23International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and
Its Abolition
24 25 26 27 28 29 30International Day of
the Disappeared
31
Sept
embe
r 1Libya Revolution Day
(1969)Spring Day
2Secretaries Day
3 4Casual Day
5 6Swaziland
Independence Day (1968)
7 8International Literacy Day
9International Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
DayWorld Day of
Interconnectedness
10World Suicide Prevention Day
11 12World First Aid DayWorld Oral Health
Day
13 14 15International Day of
Democracy
16International Day for the Preservation of
the Ozone Layer
17 18World Water
Monitoring Day
19 20 21International Coastal
Cleanup DayInternational Day of
PeaceWorld Alzheimer’s
Day
22OneWebDay
World Carfree DayMali Independence
Day (1960)
23 24World Day Against Software Patents
World Maritime DayGuinea Bissau
Independence Day (1973)
Heritage Day National Braai Day
25 26World Contraception
Day
27World Tourism Day
28International Right to
Know DayWorld Heart Day
World Rabies Day
29 30Botswana National
Day (1966)
Octo
ber
1International Day of
Older PersonsWorld Hepatitis Awareness Day
World Vegetarian Day
Nigeria Independence Day
(1960)National Inherited
Disorders Day
2International Day of
Non-ViolenceWorld Farm Animals
DayWorld Smile Day
Guinea Independence Day
(1958)
3World Ostomy Day
4World Animal DayLesotho National
Day (1966)
5World Architecture
DayWorld Habitat Day
World Teachers’ Day
6 7World Day for Decent Work
8World Sight Day
9World Post Day
Uganda Independence Day
(1962)
10World Day Against the Death Penalty
World Mental Health Day
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
11 12World Arthritis DayEquatorial Guinea Independence Day
(1968)
13 14International Day
for Natural Disaster Reduction
World Standards Day
15Feed the World DayGlobal Handwashing
DayInternational White
Cane Safety Day International Day of
Rural Women
16World Bread DayWorld Food DayWorld Spine Day
17International Day for
the Eradication of Poverty
World Trauma Day
18 19 20World Osteoporosis
DayNational Down
Syndrome Awareness Day
21 22International
Stuttering Awareness Day
23 24United Nations DayWorld Development
Information DayZambia
Independence Day (1964)
25 26 27World Day for
Audiovisual Heritage
28 29World Psoriasis Awareness Day
World Stroke Day
30 31
Nove
mbe
r 1World Vegan DayAlgeria Revolution
Day (1954)
2 3 4 5International
Volunteer Manager Appreciation Day
6International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the
Environment in War and Armed Conflict
7International Day for the African Writer
National Children’s Day
8World Radiography
DayWorld Run Day
World Town Planning Day
9International Day
Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism
10World Science
Day for Peace and Development
11Armistice Day
World Responsible Tourism Day
Angola Independence Day
(1975)
12World Quality Day
World Usability Day
13 14World Diabetes DaySADC Malaria Day
15 16International Day for
ToleranceWorld Day of
Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
17International Students Day
18World Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) Day
African Statistics Day
19International Men’s
DayWorld Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
DayWorld Day for
Prevention of Child Abuse
World Philosophy Day
World Toilet Day
20Universal Children’s
DayAfrica
Industrialisation Day
21World Fisheries Day
World Hello DayWorld Television Day
22 23 24 25International Day for the Elimination of Violence against
Women
26 27 28Mauritania
Independence Day (1960)
29International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
30International
Computer Security Day
Dece
mbe
r 1World AIDS DayCentral African
Republic Day (1958)
2International Day
for the Abolition of Slavery
3International Day of Disabled Persons
4 5International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
6 7International Civil
Aviation Day
8 9International Anti-
Corruption Day
10International Day for
Animal RightsInternational Human
Rights DayNobel Prize Day
11International Mountain Day
12Kenya Independence
Day (1963)
13 14 15 16Day of Reconciliation
17 18International Migrants Day
Niger Republic Day (1958)
19United Nations Day
for South-South Cooperation
20International Human
Solidarity Day
21 22 23 24 25Christmas Day
26Day of Goodwill
27 28 29 30 31
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