List of Important Days

List of Important Days (January)
1 January	English New Year, Army Medical Corps Establishment Day, Global family day, World Peace Day
4 January	World Braille Day
6 January	World War Orphans Day
8 January	African National Congress Foundation Day
9 January	Pravasi Bharatiya Divas NRI Day
10 January	World Laughter Day, World Hindi Day
11 January	Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
12 January	National Youth Day (Birth Day of Swami Vivekanand)
15 January	Army Day (Field Marshall K.M. Cariappa took over the command of Army on this day in 1949 from the British), Pongal, Makar Sankranti
25 January	International Customs Duty Day, India Tourism Day, National Voters Day
26 January	Republic Day List of Chief Guests of Republic Day: From 1950 to 2020
27 January	International Holocaust Day (The largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz- Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan 27, 1945.), International Day of Commemoration
28 January	Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
30 January	Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day (Martyr’s day) World Leprosy Eradication Day

List of Important Days (February)
1 February	Indian Coast Guard Day
2 February	World Wetlands Day
4 February	World Cancer Day
4 February	National Day of Sri Lanka
7 February	International Development Week
12 February	Darwin Day
12 February	Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
13 February	Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary
14 February	Saint Valentine’s Day
18 February	Taj Mahotsav
20 February	World Day of Social Justice
21 February	International Mother Language Day
22 February	World Scout Day
24 February	Central Excise Day
27 February	World Sustainable Energy Day
28 February	National Science Day

List of Important Days (March)
1 March	Zero Discrimination Day World Civil Defence Day
3 March	World Wildlife Day World Hearing Day
4 March	National Safety Day
8 March	International Women’s Day
10 March	CISF Raising Day
13 March	No Smoking Day (Second Wednesday of March)
14 March	Pi Day International Day of Action for Rivers
15 March	World Consumer Rights Day
16 March	National Vaccination Day
18 March	Ordnance Factories Day (India)
20 March	International Day of Happiness World Sparrow Day
21 March	World Forestry Day World Down syndrome Day World Poetry Day
22 March	World Water Day
23 March	World Meteorological Day
24 March	World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
27 March	World Theatre Day

List Of Important Days & Dates (April)
1 April	Orissa Day, Prevention of Blindness week
2 April	World Autism Awareness Day
4 April	International Day for Mine Awareness
5 April	National Maritime Day
7 April	World Health Day
10 April	World Homeopathy Day
11 April	National Safe Motherhood Day, National Pet Day
13 April	Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre Day (1919)
17 April	World Haemophilia Day
18 April	World Heritage Day
21 April	National Civil Service Day, Secretaries’s Day
22 April	World Earth Day
23 April	World Book and Copyright Day
24 April	National Panchayati Day
25 April	World Malaria Day, World Veterinary Day
26 April	World Intellectual Property Day
28 April	World Day for Safety and Health at Work

List of Important Days (May)
1 May	International Labour Day
3 May	Press Freedom Day
4 May	Coal miner’s day
8 May	World Red Cross Day
9 May	Victory day
2nd Sunday of May	Mother’s Day [10th May]
11 May	National Technology Day
12 May	International Nurses day
14 May	World Migratory day
15 May	International Day of the Family
17 May	World Telecommunication Day (Information Society Day)
21 May	Anti-terrorism day
24 May	Commonwealth Day
31 May	Anti-Tobacco Day

List of Important Days (June)
4 June	International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June	World Environment Day
7 June	International level crossing awareness day
8 June	World ocean day
12 June	World day against Child Labour
14 June	World blood donor day
17 June	World day to combat desertification and drought
20 June	World Refugee day
21st June (3rd Sunday)	Father’s Day
21 June	World Music Day, International Yoga Day
23 June	United Nation’s public service day
23 June	International Widow’s day
26 June	International day against Drug abuse & Illicit Trafficking

List of Important Days (July)
1 July	National Doctor’s day
6 July	World Zoonoses Day
11 July	World Population Day
12 July	World Malala day
18 July	Nelson Mandela International Day
28 July	World Nature conservation day, World Hepatitis Day

List of Important Days (August)
2 August	International Friendship Day
3 August	Independence day of Niger
5 August	Independence day of upper Volta
6 August	Hiroshima Day
9 August	International day of World’s indigenous people
9 August	Quit India movement Day and Nagasaki Day
12 August	International Youth day
15 August	Independence Day of India
23 August	International Day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition
29 August	National Sports Day

List of Important Days (September)
5 September	Teachers’ Day (Dr. Radhakrishnan’s birthday), Forgiveness day
8 September	World Literacy Day
14 September	Hindi day, World First Air Day
15 September	Engineer’s day in India
16 September	World Ozone Day
21 September	Alzheimer’s Day, International day of peace
25 September	Social justice day
26 September	Day of the Deaf
27 September	World Tourism Day

List of Important Days (October)
1 October	International day of the Older person
2 October	Mahatma Gandhi birthday, International day of non-violence
3 October	World Habitat Day, World nature day
4 October	World Animal Welfare Day
5 October	World Teacher’s day
8 October	Indian Air Force Day
9 October	World Post Office day
10 October	National Post Day
11 October	International girl child day
12 October	World Arthritis day
13 October	UN International Day for National disaster reduction
14 October	World Standards Day
15 October	World White Cane Day (guiding the Blind)
16 October	World Food Day
17 October	International day for the eradication of poverty
20 October	World statistics day
24 October	UN Day, World development information Day
30 October	World Thrift Day

List of Important Days (November)
1 November	World vegan day
5 November	World Radiography day
9 November	World services day
14 November	Children’s Day in India,Jawaharlal Nehru birthday
16 November	International day for Endurance
17 November	World Student day, National Journalism day
18 November	World Adult day
19 November	World Citizen day
20 November	Africa Industrialization Day, Universal children day
21 November	World Television day, World Fisheries day
25 November	World Non-veg day
26 November	Law day
29 November	International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
30 November	Flag day

List of Important Days (December)
1 December	World Aids Day
2 December	World Computer literacy day, International day of abolition of slavery
3 December	International Day of People with disabilities, World conservation day
4 December	Navy Day
5 December	International volunteer day for economic and social development
7 December	Armed Forces Flag Day, International civil aviation day
9 December	The International day against corruption
10 December	Human Right Day
11 December	International Mountain day
14 December	International Energy day
18 December	International Migrants day
19 December	Goa’s liberation day
20 December	International Human solidarity
23 December	Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day)