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Help us National traditions, public holidays and notable observances for 2022-2023 year
August 2022
Friday 26 August - Dog Day (was founded by a woman - Colleen Paige - in 2004)
Sunday 28 August - Notting Hill Carnival in West London (held on the last Sunday of August); Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
September 2022
Tuesday 13 September - Roald Dahl Day in Africa, United Kingdom and Latin America; Pet Birth Defect Awareness Day
Thursday 15 September - Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
Thursday 29 September - National Coffee Day; The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael Day for England and Ireland (this is christian feast day and one of the four quarter days in the Irish calendar)
October 2022
Saturday 1 October - Lincolnshire Day (United Kingdom)
Sunday 2 October - Grandparents Day in United Kingdom (First Sunday in October)
Tuesday 4 October - Bipolar Awareness Day in the UK (Held on the first Tuesday in October)
Saturday 15 October - Memorial Day for the loss of a child during pregnancy or a newborn (noted in Ohio, USA, Canada, France, Britain and Italy)
Friday 21 October - Trafalgar Day in Great Britain (celebration of the victory won by the Royal Navy, commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, over the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805); Apple Day (United Kingdom)
Thursday 27 October - Black Cat Appreciation Day (United Kingdom)
November 2022
Tuesday 1 November - Samhain in the Northern Hemisphere and Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere (celebrations start at sunset of October 31. Neopagan Wheel of the Year); Samhain (Celtic harvest festival and Druid festival of Celtic mythology)
Friday 4 November - Guy Fawkes Night in England (In Britain, Bonfire Night is associated with the tradition of celebrating Guy Fawkes’ failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5th November 1605)
Saturday 5 November - West Country Carnival (English West Country); Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
Monday 7 November - United Kingdom Engineer’s week (United Kingdom, Ireland 2022: 7 – 11 November 2022)
Friday 11 November - Remembrance Day in United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada
Sunday 13 November - Remembrance Sunday in United Kingdom (Date for 2022. Celebrated on the second Sunday in November)
Sunday 20 November - Wedding day of Elizabeth II (United Kingdom); Martyr Edmund Day in England (Edmund the Martyr also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869, was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death); Mitzvah Day International (Inaugurated - 2005. Held on the third Sunday of November)
Tuesday 22 November - International Son Day (community initiative)
Sunday 27 November - Lancashire Day (United Kingdom)
Monday 28 November - Bedfordshire Day (is celebrated in the county of Bedfordshire to celebrate the birth of John Bunyan)
Wednesday 30 November - St Andrew’s Day (holiday is Scotland’s official national day. In 2006, the Scottish Parliament designated St Andrew’s Day as an official bank holiday. It is also a national holiday in Romania)
December 2022
Thursday 8 December - Battle Day in Falkland Islands
Thursday 15 December - Homecoming Day in Alderney (in honor of the first return of the inhabitants of the island in 1945 after a mass evacuation in June 1940)
Friday 23 December - Tom Bawcock's Eve (Mousehole, Cornwall)
Monday 26 December - Boxing day in Australia (also Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Kiribati, Nauru, Botswana, Ghana, Jamaica); Mummer's Day (Padstow, Cornwall)
Saturday 31 December - The first day of Hogmanay or "Auld Year's Night" in Scotland (New Year's Eve - International observance); New Year’s Eve
January 2023
Monday 2 January - Hansel Monday in Scotland and Northern England (Celebrate the first Monday of the new year, give gifts at this time); Handsel Monday in Scotland (celebrated on the first Monday of the year)
Thursday 5 January - Sausage Day in Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK; The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas (Western Christianity)
Saturday 7 January - Distaff Day (medieval Europe)
Monday 23 January - Big Energy Saving Week in UK (Spent from Monday of the last full week of January)
Wednesday 25 January - Burns Night (Scotland and Scottish community); St. Dwynwen's Day in Wales, UK (local patron saint of lovers)
Sunday 29 January - Gibraltar Constitution Day (commemorates the constitution that came into force in January 2007. Gibraltar is a British overseas territory at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula)
February 2023
Sunday 5 February - British Yorkshire Pudding Day (The first Sunday in February)
Sunday 26 February - National Wear Red Day (United Kingdom, until 2016); For Pete's Sake Day (if there’s a Pete in your life, why not do something for his sake?)
Wednesday 29 February - Bachelor's Day (Ireland, United Kingdom)
March 2023
Wednesday 1 March - Time for a Cuppa in England (gather your friends and family on a cup for a cup of tea, a piece of cake and a nose - all for good reason!); National Bed Month in United Kingdom (In 1988 a ground breaking study found that by switching an uncomfortable old bed to a lovely new one meant an extra 42 minutes of sleep!); Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in Great Britain (when a woman is diagnosed at the earliest stage, her chance of surviving ovarian cancer for five years or more doubles from just 46 per cent to more than 90 per cent); St David Day in UK (people in Wales and those of Welsh origin celebrate the life of their patron saint); National Procrastination Week in the UK (the goal is to leave unnecessary tasks at a later time, provide mental and emotional relief, help reduce stress and anxiety)
Thursday 2 March - Crufts (The World's Largest Dog Show) held in Birmingham, England
Friday 3 March - National Salesperson Day in USA (The first Friday in March); HSBC Holdings Day; Employee Appreciation Day
Monday 13 March - Commonwealth Day in Great Britain (Commonwealth of Nations; celebrated on the second Monday in March)
Sunday 19 March - Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day (United Kingdom, Western Christianity; celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent: Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Nigeria)
Wednesday 22 March - Global Economics Day (Date in 2022. Celebrated at the International Business Festival [22-24 March, 2022], which takes place in Liverpool, UK every two years. The 2018 Festival celebrated and supported business, through unmissable conferences, seminars and bespoke business brokerage meetings at Exhibition Centre Liverpool for three weeks, bringing a world of business to anticipated crowds of thousands of delegates.The Festival hosted more than 100 individual events organized to promote economic stability and opportunities in a changing world and demonstrate the potential of the international market.)
Saturday 25 March - Historic start of the new year (Lady Day in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752. The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January. It is one of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England)
April 2023
Monday 10 April - Hocktide or Tutti Day in Hungerford, England (Hungerford Hocktide Festival is the Monday and Tuesday in the week following Easter Monday (so Hock Monday is exactly a week after Easter Monday). The associated Constables Sunday parade takes place on the Sunday following Tutti Day)
Saturday 15 April - Hillsborough Disaster Memorial (Liverpool, England)
Friday 21 April - Queen Elizabeth II's birthday in the UK (1926); National Tea Day in United Kingdom; Queen's Official Birthday on Falkland Islands; Eid al-Fitr
Saturday 22 April - National Day of commemoration for the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence in United Kingdom (since 2018)
Sunday 23 April - St. George's Day (Great Britain, Canada, Newfoundland)
May 2023
Friday 5 May - No Pants Day (It is held on the first Friday in May)
Monday 8 May - Furry Dance (Helston, UK)
Saturday 13 May - Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, England); World Fair Trade Day (celebrated on the second Saturday of May)
Monday 15 May - National Hoarding Awareness Week in UK (held from the third Monday of May)
Sunday 21 May - Saint Helena Day, celebrates the discovery of Saint Helena in 1502. (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
Monday 22 May - World Goth Day (The Official World Goth Day site defines it as "a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world.")
Wednesday 24 May - Aldersgate Day/Wesley Day (Methodism)
Monday 29 May - Spring holiday in the UK; Castleton Garland Day (Castleton, England); National Biscuit Day in USA and UK
Tuesday 30 May - Anguilla Day (commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967); Prudential Day
June 2023
Thursday 1 June - National Volunteer Week in UK (is held in the first week of June)
Thursday 8 June - Lindisfarne Day (in memory of the Viking raid on the tidal island of Lindisfarne on the northeastern coast of England in 793, which marked the beginning of the Viking era in Northern Europe)
Wednesday 14 June - Liberation Day in Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Friday 16 June - Sussex Day (The event takes place on St Richard's Day, the feast day of St Richard of Chichester, Sussex's patron saint)
Saturday 17 June - Queen's Birthday in UK (Since 1974, the Queen’s official birthday has been celebrated on Saturday in the range between June 11 and 17. A military parade known as Trooping the Colour is held in London and is attended by the Royal Family)
Sunday 18 June - Waterloo Day (United Kingdom. The date of the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815); Father's Day (Ñelebrated on the third Sunday of June øò Argentina, Aruba, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Kenya, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Venezuela, United Kingdom)
Friday 23 June - International Women in Engineering Day (National Women in Engineering Day was launched for the first time in the UK on 23 June 2014 by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary. Since that launch in 2014 the day has grown enormously over the subsequent years to the point where it received UNESCO patronage in 2016. In 2017, National Women in Engineering Day became international for the first time due to the interest and enthusiasm developed by the international audience and participants in the previous years)
Saturday 24 June - Armed Forces Day in United Kingdom (and National Veterans' Day); UK Midsummer Day
Friday 30 June - International Scoliosis Awareness Day (SAUK launched #ISAD in 2013 to unite people across the world to create positive public awareness of scoliosis, promote education, and bring together those affected by the condition)
July 2023
Saturday 1 July - Territory Day (British Virgin Islands)
Wednesday 5 July - National Pet Remembrance Day in the UK; Tynwald Day (Isle of Man/ If July 5 is on a weekend, the holiday is the following Monday)
Friday 14 July - Black Country Day (United Kingdom)
Tuesday 18 July - Hot Dog Day (United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. It has been celebrated since 1971, when students first proposed it. Hot Dog Day itself is usually the third Saturday in April, although many students celebrate the entire "hot dog week", running from that Wednesday to that Sunday. July 18 – based on when the North American Meat Institute hosts its annual Hot Dog Lunch on Capitol Hill.)
Sunday 30 July - International Embroidery Day or World Embroidery Day (founded by the Swedish 'Broderiakademin, BRAK' in 2011)
Monday 31 July - End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)
August 2023
Tuesday 1 August - The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London, England); Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England); Minden Day (United Kingdom); Lammas (England, Scotland)
Saturday 12 August - Glorious Twelfth in United Kingdom (The Glorious Twelfth is the twelfth day of August, the start of the shooting season for red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica), and to a lesser extent the ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Typically British traditions
Being overly polite in every eventuality; adhering to the rules; the ability to queue nicely; sighing loudly if someone jumps the queue, but not doing anything about it; keeping a stiff upper lip at all times; always taking an umbrella down before you get indoors; refusing to complain about bad service; saying sorry when you’ve not done anything wrong; sending and receiving of greeting cards; taking great pride in celebrating one-time special events; visiting Pantomime at Christmas... also:
Many cities in the UK with a large Asian population celebrate Chinese New Year.
There are two London Fashion Weeks each year – the first London Fashion Week is in February and the second is in September.
Wimbledon in South West London (JUNE-JULY) is the venue of one of four annual Grand Slam tennis tournaments held around the world.
The National Eisteddfod in august is Wales’ biggest arts and culture festival. You can listen to Welsh music, watch dance and theatre performances, listen to the Welsh language, sample Welsh food and crafts. Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. Notting Hill Carnival is held in the streets of Notting Hill in west London over the last Summer bank holiday weekend. It’s Europe’s biggest street festival and it is completely free.
- Reading the newspapers in the morning; eating a full English breakfast; considering meat and two veg as the staple parts of a main meal; dunking biscuits in tea; having a strong opinion about whether you put the milk in before the tea and hot water or vice versa; eating a traditional roast dinner on a Sunday; eating fish and chips on a Friday; barbequing at the first hint of sunshine
- The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace; doing a spot of gardening on a bank holiday and doing DIY on a bank holiday weekend; arguing about politics; instinctively wanting to go to the pub on a sunny day
- Being proud of your garden; moving around the garden to catch the sun rays through the day; trying to catch the very last rays of sun on a summer day; having an avid interest in the weather at all times; flocking to the beach as soon as the temperature rises; taking layers of clothing to the beach, just in case it’s cold or the sun goes in when you get there
- Pancake flipping on Shrove Tuesday; enjoying a cream tea in Devon; eating pasties when visiting Cornwall; getting the strawberries and cream out to watch Wimbledon; putting the kettle on in a crisis
- Throughout November you may notice that lots of men are growing moustaches. This is because throughout November, the charity campaign of Movember encourages men to grow a moustache to raise funds in support of men’s health.
Many cities in the UK with a large Asian population celebrate Chinese New Year.
There are two London Fashion Weeks each year – the first London Fashion Week is in February and the second is in September.
Wimbledon in South West London (JUNE-JULY) is the venue of one of four annual Grand Slam tennis tournaments held around the world.
The National Eisteddfod in august is Wales’ biggest arts and culture festival. You can listen to Welsh music, watch dance and theatre performances, listen to the Welsh language, sample Welsh food and crafts. Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. Notting Hill Carnival is held in the streets of Notting Hill in west London over the last Summer bank holiday weekend. It’s Europe’s biggest street festival and it is completely free.
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