International Tartan Day
International Tartan Day is held on July 1. Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events. This event in the first decade of the month July is annual. 
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The word tartan dates back to about 1500 but its origin is unclear. The oldest known tartan design is the Falkirk tartan, which dates to around AD245 and was discovered in a jar of coins near Falkirk. Australia and some other countries celebrate Tartan Day on July 1, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1746 UK Act banning the wearing of tartan. Alan Bean, an American astronaut of Scottish descent, took a little piece of MacBean tartan up to the moon during his Apollo 12 mission in 1969. Every province and territory in Canada, except Nunavut in the north, has its own official tartan.
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