1

KNKumar (Last Edited 17-Aug-2015) Date Of ImportanceJanuary

Sunday - Jan Falling Between 14-20 – World Peace DayJanuary 4th to 10th - Oil Conservation Week January 10th to 16th - Road Safety WeekJanuary 15th to 21st - Pin Code Week1-Jan Global Family Day/

Army Medical Corps Establishment Day(India)4-Jan World Braille Day (Birthday of Louis Braille)/

Mayanmar Independence Day5-Jan National Birds Day(US)8-Jan African National Congress Foundation Day9-Jan (7-9 Jan) NRI Day/ Pravasi Bharatiya Divas10-Jan World Hindi Day11-Jan Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri12-Jan National Youth Day(Birth day of Swami Vivekanand)15-Jan Indian Army Day17-Jan Election Commission Day18-Jan National Immunization Day (Polio Day)

23-Jan Patriotism Day (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary) ( India )/ Desh Prem Diwas

24-Jan National Girl Child Day 25-Jan National Voters Day/ India TourismDay/

International Excise Day/International Customs and Excise Day

26-Jan India’s Republic Day/ International Customs Day recognized by the World Customs Organization

27-Jan International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, recognized by the UN

28-Jan Data Protection Day/Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai

29-Jan Indian News Papers Day30-Jan Martyrs’ Day/ Mahatma Gandhi's Martyrdom

Day/World Leprosy Eradication(Anti-Leprosy)/ prevention Day/ Sarvodaya Day/National Cleanliness Day(INDIA)

31-Jan Street Children's DayFebruary

Feb 2nd Sunday World Marriage Day1-Feb Coast Guard Day2-Feb World Wetlands Day/National Day of SriLanka4-Feb World Cancer Day/Independence Day of SriLanka

( From UK in 1948 )5-Feb Kashmir Solidarity Day(Organized by Pakistan)6-Feb International Day of Zero Tolerance to against Female

Genital Mutilation10-Feb National Deworming Day(INDIA)11-Feb World Day of the Sick12-Feb Darwin Day

13-Feb World Radio day recognized by UN and UNESCO / Sarojini Naidu's Birth Anniversary/ National Women's Day of India

14-Feb Valentine's Day16-Feb Delhi Police Day20-Feb World Day of Social Justice/Arunachal Day/

Mizoram Day21-Feb International Mother Language/Tounge Day(Bhasha

Diwas)/ International Human Rights Commission Constitution Day, recognized by the IHRC

22-Feb World Scout Day24-Feb Central Excise Day(India)28-Feb National Science Day(India)/Rare Disease Day

MarchMarch 2nd Monday Commonwealth Day(2015-Mar-9)(Canada)March 2nd Thursday World Kidney Day(2015-Mar-12)March 1st Sunday International Children Broadcasting

Day(India)(2015-Mar-01)March 1st Wednesday World Maths DayMarch Last Saturday India and World observed Earth Hour Day

(08:30 PM to 09:30 PM)1-Mar World Civil Defence Day/ Zero Discrimination

Day3-Mar National Defence Day(India)/ World Wildlife Day4-Mar World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation/

National Security/Safety(India) Day ( Security of Industrial Institutions)/ Children Rights Protection Day (Assam became the first state to observe Child Protection Day in India)

5-Mar Mayanmar Independence Day6-Mar World Dentist Day8-Mar International Women’s Day/International Literacy Day10-Mar Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Foundation

Raising day/ United Kingdom Commonwealth Day11-Mar Andaman & Nicobar Day12-Mar Mauritius Day/Central Industrial Security Force

Day(India)13-Mar World Rotaract Day14-Mar Pi Day

15-Mar World Consumer Rights Day/World Disabled Day16-Mar National Vaccination Day(India)/ Immunization Day18-Mar Ordnance Factories/ Manufacturing Day (India)/

Bi-Centenary of Indian Ordinance Factory19-Mar World Disabled Day20-Mar World Sparrow Day/World Day of Theatre for

Children and Young People/World Disabled Day/ Social Empowerment Memorial Day/ International Happiness Day(UN)

21-Mar World Forestry Day(UN)/ International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination/World Poetry Day/ International Day of Nowruz/ World Down Syndrome Day/ International Day of Forests

22-Mar World Water Day23-Mar World Meteorological Day /Ram Manohar Lohia’s

Birth Day(Anniversary) Bhagat Singh , Sukhdev And Rajguru’s Martyrdam Day

24-Mar World TB(Tuberculosis) Day/Rural Postal Life Insurance Day/ International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims/ International Day for Achievers

25-Mar Sacrifice Day of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi/ International Day of Remembrance of the

2

Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade/International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members(UN)

26-Mar Bangladesh Liberation (National Day of Bangladesh)

27-Mar World Drama Day/ World Theater Day28-Mar National Shipping Day29-Mar National Ship Transport Day30-Mar RajasthanDay/Child Labour Day

April1-Apr Orissa Day/ Financial Year Starting Day(RBI Day)2-Apr World Autism Awareness Day5-Apr International Day for Mine Awareness/

National Maritime Day(India)/Samta Diwas Day7-Apr World Health Day/Special Protection Group (SPG)

Foundation Day10-Apr World Homeopathy Day(Birth Anniversary of

Samuel Hanimen, Father of Homeopathy)/ National(India) Survey Day

10-16-Apr World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day/ Indian Railway Week

11-Apr National Janani Suraksha Day/ National Safe Motherhood Day(White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Day Across India)

13-Apr Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre Day ( 1919 )14-Apr B.R. Ambedkar Birth Anniversary/Fire Extinguishing

Day(India)/ World Aeronautics and Cosmology Day/ Anniversary of Titanic sinking

15-Apr Himachal Pradesh Day/ World Art Day17-Apr World Haemophilia Day18-Apr World Heritage Day/World Amateur Radio Day/

zimbabwe independence day21-Apr Secretaries’ Day/Indian /National Civil Services Day22-Apr Annual World Earth Day/International Mother

Earth Day/Earth Day23-Apr World Books Day and World Copyright Day24-Apr Manav Ekta Divas/National Panchayati Raj Divas25-Apr World Malaria Day26-Apr World Intellectual Property Day/world Chernobyl

Day/ World Veterinary Day27-Apr South Africa Independence Day28-Apr Workers' Memorial Day, International Workers'

Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning

29-Apr International Dance Day30-Apr Child Labour Day

MayMay 1st Tuesday World Asthma DayMay 1st Sunday World Laughter DayMay, 2nd Sunday Mother’s DayMay, Second weekend World Migratory Bird Day1-May Workers’ Day/May Day ( International Labour Day/

Worker’s Day of May Day)/Maharastra Day3-May World Press Freedom Day/International Energy Day 4-May Coal Miners’ Day/ Bird Day5-May World Athletics Day/ International Day of the

Midwife6-May Lawyers Day8-May V-E Day/International Red Cross Day and Red

Crescent Day (It is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of the founder of the Red Cross Organisation Jean Henry Dunant)/ World Thalami Day/ International Pthylesemia Day

8-9-May Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War

9-May World Thalassaemia Day/ Europe Day10-11 May World Migratory Bird Day11-May National Technology/Technological Day(India)12-May World Hypertension Day/International Nurses Day13-May National Solidarity Day

15-May International Family Day/Global Accessibility Awareness Day

17-May World Telecommunication (Telecom) Day and Information Society Day

18-May International Museum Day19-May World Family Doctor’s Day20-May Clinical Trials Day21-May National(India) Anti-Terrorism day/ World Day

for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development22-May International Day for Biological Diversity23-May World Turtle Day (To encourage human efforts to help

tortoise survive)/ United Nations day that is aimed at ending Obstetric Fistula/ World Turtle Day

24-May World Commonwealth Day25-May International Missing Children's Day27-May Death Anniversary of Jawahar Lal Nehru28-May World Hunger Day29-May Mount Everest Day/ International Day of United

Nations Peacekeepers(2014)30-May Journalism Day(Hindi Journalism Day-India)31-May Anti-tobacco Day/ World No Tobacco Day(and

No-smoking)

JuneJune, 3rd Sunday Father’s Day1-Jun International Children’s Day/World Milk Day

Pulse PolioVaccination Day/ Global Day of Parents2-Jun Andhra Pradesh State Day/ Telangana Day/

International Sex Workers Day4-Jun International Day of Innocent Children, Victims of

Aggression5-Jun World Environment Day/World Pollution Day6-Jun International Olympic Association Establishment Day/

World IPv6 Day was a technical testing and publicity Event

7-Jun National Cancer Survivors Day(US)

8-Jun World Ocean Day//World Brain Tumor Day9-Jun Death Anniversary of Birsa Munda12-Jun World Day against Child Labour13-Jun International Albinism Awareness Day(UN)14-Jun World Blood Donor / Donation Day15-Jun World Elder Abuse Awareness Day17-Jun World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought18-Jun Goa Liberation Day20-Jun World Refugee Day(UN)21-Jun World Music Day/Antarctic Day/ International Yoga

Day22-Jun Snake Bird Day (By Kerala)

3

23-Jun International Olympic Day/United Nations Public Service Day/ International Widows day/ Public Service Day(UNPAN)

25-Jun UN Charter Signing Day/World Vitilgo Day/ International Seafarer's day

26-Jun International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking/Anti - Emergency Day/International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

27-Jun International Diabetes Day28-Jun Poor's Day29-Jun National Statistics Day(India)30-Jun International Mango Festival(Delhi Tourism)

JulyJuly 4th Sunday Parents’ Day(UN)July 1st Saturday International Co-operative Day1-Jul National Doctor’s Day(India) (Birthday of Dr.

Bidhan Chandra Roy)/State Bank of India Foundation Day/ Canada Day/International Joke Day

2-Jul World Sports Journalists Day4-Jul American Independence Day6-Jul World Zoonoses Day11-Jul World Population Day12-Jul Malala Day15-Jul World Youth Skills Day16-Jul Common Service Day

17-Jul International Criminal Justice (Anniversary of

adoption of Rome Statue)18-Jul Nelson Mandela International Day19-Jul Nationalization of banks first time in India in

1969 (14 largest commercial banks were Nationalized)20-July International Cake Day22-Jul National Flag Adoption Day/Pi Approximation Day24-Jul Income Tax Day26-Jul Kargil Victory Day/ Kargil Memorial Day/

International Gaucher Day28-Jul World Nature Conservation Day/Van Mahostav Day/

World Hepatitis Day29-Jul International Tiger Day30-Jul International Day of Friendship

AugustAugust 1st Sunday International Friendship DayAugust First Working Day KYC Day(India)1-7-Aug Breast Feeding Week1-Aug World Breast Feeding Day3-Aug Friendship Day4-Aug Heart Transplantation Day6-Aug Hiroshima Day/Organ Donation Day/World

Peace Day7-Aug Forgiveness Day/ National Khadi Day/ National

Handloom Day8-Aug World Senior Citizen’s Day/Sanskrit Day9-Aug Quit India Day/Nagasaki Day/International Day

of the World's Indigenous Peoples/ World Tribal Day

12-Aug International Youth Day/ World Elephant Day/National Library Day ( Birthday of

S.R.Ranganathan )13-Aug Designated as the International Lefthanders Day14-Aug Pakistan's Independence Day15-Aug India’s Independence Day18-Aug Intl. Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples19-Aug World Photography Day/World Humanitarian

Day20-Aug Rajiv Gandhi (National/India)Sadbhavana

Divas23-Aug International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave

Trade and its Abolition26-Aug Mother Tersa Day(BirthDay)29-Aug National Sports Day( Dhyanchand's birthday)/

Telugu Language Day30-Aug Small Industry Day/ International Day of the

Victims of Enforced Disappearances(UN)September

1-Sep Non-Aligned Day/ LIC Foundation Day2-Sep Coconut Day4-Sep International Daughter’s day5-Sep National Teacher’s Day(Birth Day of

S.Radhakrishnan )/ International day of charity7-Sep Forgiveness Day(India)8-Sep International Literacy Day (UNESCO)9-Sep Himalaya Diwas (By Uttarakhand Govt.)10-Sep World suicide prevention day(India)11-Sep Patriot Day(Sep-11 Attacks)14-Sep National Hindi Diwas(Hindi was adopted as the

Official Language of the Union) /World First Aid Day/ World Fraternity and Apology Day

15-Sep Engineer’s Day/National Engineers’ Day/ International Day of Democracy/ All India Flag Day

16-Sep World Ozone Day

17-Sep Narendra Modi BirthDay19-Sep International Talk Like A Pirate Day20-Sep Railway Police Force (RPF) Foundation Day21-Sep World Alzheimer’s Day/International Day of Peace/

Non- violence (UN)/World Peace Day22-Sep National Rose Day (Welfare Day For cancer patients)23-Sep World Deaf Day25-Sep Social Justice Day(India)/ Deen Dayal Antyojay

Yojan Day(Pandit DeenDayal Upadhya BirthDay)26-Sep Day of the Deaf/CSIR Day(Council for Industrial and

Scientific Research Center)27-Sep World Tourism Day28-Sep World Rabies Day29-Sep World Heart Day(Previously it is on Last Sunday Of

September)30-Sep US & India PartnerShip Day

OctoberOctober, 2nd Thursday World Sight DayOctober, 2nd Friday World Egg DayOctober, 1st Monday World Habitat Day/World Architect Day1-Oct International Day for the Elderly(UN) (Oldmen’s) Day/

National Voluntary Blood Donation Day(India)/ World Vegetarian Day

2-Oct Gandhi Jayanthi/International Non-violence Day/

4

Birth day of Lal Bahadur Sastri/World farm Animals Day/ International Peace Day/

3-Oct World Nature Day4-Oct World Animal Welfare Day5-Oct World Teacher's Day6-Oct World Wildlife Day/World Wild animal Day7-Oct International Day for Natural Disaster /Reduction8-Oct National(India) Air Force Day9-Oct World Post-Office Day/ World Postal Day10-Oct National Post-Office Day(India)/ World Mental

Health Day/National Solidarity Day/China Republic Day

11-Oct International Day of the Girl Child/Birthday of Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan

12-Oct World Arthritis Day/World Sight Day13-Oct UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction/

World Calamity Control Day ( UN )/ World Disaster Reduction Day

14-Oct World Standards Day15-Oct World White Cane Day (guiding the blind)/

International Day of Rural women/ World Student Day(In Memory of APJ Abdul Kalaam) By UNO/ Global Handwashing Day

16-Oct World Food Day/World Allergy Awareness Day/ World Anesthesia Day

17-Oct The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty/ International Poverty Eradication Day/ International Poverty Day

20-Oct World Statistics Day/World Osteoporosis Day/ National Solidarity Day (China attacked India on that day )

21-Oct Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day/ World Iodine Shortage Day/Police Commemoration Day/ National Police day(India)

24-Oct United Nations (UN) Day/World Development Information Day/World Polio Day/UNO Day

27-Oct World Day for Audiovisual Heritage/National Police Day

28-Oct International Animation Day29-Oct International Internet Day/International Coffee Day30-Oct World Thrift Day31-Oct National Rededication Day/World Saving Day/ Death

Anniversary of Indira Gandhi/ Halloween/National Integration Day(Sardar Vallabhai Patel BirthDay)(NDA Announced)

November1-Nov Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab,

Haryana Day/ World Vegan Day5-Nov World Radiography Day7-Nov Infant Protection Day/World Cancer Awareness Day8-Nov International Radiology Day9-Nov World Legal Services Day/Pravasiya Bharatiya

Divas/World Freedom day/World Service Day10-Nov Transport Day/World Science Day for Peace

and Development11-Nov National Educational Day(India)/Birth Day of

Abdul Kalam12-Nov World Pneumonia Day/Public Service Broadcasting

Day(India)/National Public Transmission Day14-Nov National Children’s Day(India) (Birth anniversary of

Jawaharlal Nehru)/World Diabetes Day16-Nov International Day for Tolerance/International

Day For Endurance/ National Press Day(India)17-Nov National Epilepsy Day/National Journalism Day/Guru

Nanak Dev's Birth Anniversary/World Students Day

18-Nov Sappers' Day/World Adult Day19-Nov Citizens Day/ World Citizen Day/World Toilet

Day//International Men’s Day/ National Integration Day(In Memory of Indira Gandhi(Birth Anniversary))

20-Nov Africa Industrialization Day/ International/ Universal Children’s Day

21-Nov World Television Day/World Fisheries day/World Hello Day & Telephone Invent Day

25-Nov International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women/World Non-veg Prevention Day/World Environment Conservation Day/Birth Day of Guru Nanak Dev

26-Nov Constitution Adoption Day (India)/National LawDay(India)/World Environment Protection Day/ National Milk Day(Verghese Kurien – BirthDay)

29-Nov International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People/National Law Day

30-Nov National Flag Day(India)

December2nd Sunday International Children’s Day of Broadcasting1-Dec World AIDS Day2-Dec World Computer Literacy Day/National

Pollution Prevention Day/International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

3-Dec International Day of (for) Disabled HandiCapped) Persons/World Conservation Day/ Birth Day of Dr.Rajendra Prasad/ Advocate Day

4-Dec Navy Day /Indian Navy Day/Chemical Accidents Prevention Day

5-Dec International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development

6-Dec B.R.Ambedkar Remembrance Day7-Dec Armed Forces Flag Day(India)/International Civil

Aviation Day8-Dec SAARC Day

9-Dec Girl Child Day (Balika Divas) (India)/International Anti-Corruption Day (UN)

10-Dec Human RightsDay/ Alfred Noble death anniversary/ International Human Rights Day

11-Dec UNICEF Day/World Children’s Fund Day13-Dec Attack On Indian Parliament(2001)14-Dec World Energy Day/National Energy Conservation Day16-Dec Vijay Diwas(India paid tribute to its martyred soldiers,

on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war that resulted in the liberation of East Pakistan now called Bangladesh.)

18-Dec Minorities Rights Day (India)19-Dec Goa's Liberation Day22-Dec National Mathematics Day (Srinivasa Ramanujan

Birthday)23-Dec Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day) (India)(Birthday of

5

Chaudary Charan Singh)24-Dec National Consumer Right Day25-Dec X-mas Day/ Good Governance Day(Suparipalana

Diwas - Atal Bihari Vajpayee Birthday)/MadanMohan

Malavya BirthDay/ Boxing Day26-Dec Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Foundation Day28-Dec National Consumers Day/ INC (Indian National

Congress Foundation Day-1885)

(World BioCapacity/World Ecological FootPrint)*365=Ecological Debt Day (or) Earth Overshoot Day (In 2014 – Aug-19)

International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) officially takes place on the second Saturday in May in the U.S. and Canada and on the second Saturday of October in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean each year.

The United Nations (UN), via the International Maritime Organization (IMO), created World Maritime Day to celebrate the international maritime industry’s contribution towards the world’s economy, especially in shipping.

Thu Sep 24 2015 World Maritime Day United Nations observanceThu Sep 22 2016 World Maritime Day United Nations observance