List of Important National and International days and dates
Important Dates and Days of January
- January 4: World Braille Day
- January 9: NRI Day
- January 10: World Hindi Day
- January 12: National Youth Day
- January 15: Army day
- January 24: National Girl Child Day
- January 25: National Voters day
- January 26: India’s Republic Day, International Customs Day
- January 30: Martyrs’ Day;
- January (last Sunday): World Leprosy Eradication Day
Important Dates and Days of February
- February 4: World Cancer Day
- February 6: International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
- February 7: Safer Internet Day (second day of the second week of February)
- February 10: National De-worming Day
- February 12: National Productivity Day
- February 13: World Radio Day
- February 14: Valentine Day
- February 20: World Day of Social Justice
- February 21: International Mother Language Day
- February 24: Central Excise Day
- February 28: National Science Day
Important Dates and Days of March
- March 1: Zero Discrimination Day
- March 3: World Wildlife Day, National Defence Day
- March 4: National Security Day
- March 8: International Women’s Day
- March 13: No Smoking Day (second Wednesday in March)
- March 15: World Disabled Day; World Consumer Rights Day
- March 18: Ordnance Factories Day (India)
- March 21: World Forestry Day; World Down Syndrome Day
- March 22: World Day for Water
- March 23: World Meteorological Day
- March 24: World TB Day
- March 27: World Theatre Day
Important Dates and Days of April
- April 2: World Autism Awareness Day
- April 5: International Day for Mine Awareness; National Maritime Day
- April 7: World Health Day
- April 10: World Homeopathy Day
- April 11: National Safe Motherhood Day
- April 17: World Haemophilia Day
- April 18: World Heritage Day
- April 21: Secretaries’ Day
- April 22: Earth Day
- April 23: World Book and Copyright Day
- April 24: National Panchayati Day
- April 29: International Dance Day
Important Dates and Days of May
- May 1: Workers’ Day (International Labour Day), Maharashtra Day
- May 3: Press Freedom Day
- May (1st Sunday): World Laughter Day
- May (1st Tuesday): World Asthma Day
- May (2nd Sunday): Mother’s Day
- May 4: Coal Miners’ Day; International Firefighters Day
- May 7: World Athletics Day
- May 8: World Red Cross Day
- May 9: World Thalassaemia Day
- May 11: National Technology Day
- May 12: International Nurses Day
- May 15: International Day of the Family
- May 17: World Telecommunication Day; World Hypertension Day
- May 18: World AIDS Vaccine Day
- May 22: International Day for Biological Diversity
- May 24: Commonwealth Day
- May 31: Anti-tobacco Day
Important Dates and Days of June
- June 1: World Milk Day
- June 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
- June 5: World Environment Day
- June (3rd Sunday): Father’s Day
- June 8: World Ocean Day
- June 12: Anti-Child Labor Day
- June 14: World Blood Donor Day
- June 20: World Refugee Day
- June 21: International day of yoga
- June 26: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Important Dates and Days of July
- July 1: Doctor’s Day
- July 6: World Zoonoses Day
- July 11: World Population Day
- July 18: International Nelson Mandela Day
Important Dates and Days of August
- August (1st Sunday): International Friendship Day
- August 6: Hiroshima Day
- August 8: World Senior Citizen’s Day
- August 9: Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day
- August 15: Indian Independence Day
- August 18: IntI. Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
- August 19: Photography Day
- August 29: National Sports Day
Important Dates and Days of September
- September 2: Coconut Day
- September 5: Teachers’ Day; Sanskrit Day
- September 8: International Literacy Day
- September 15: Engineers’ Day
- September 16: World Ozone Day
- September 21: Alzheimer’s Day; Day for Peace & Non-violence (UN)
- September 22: Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients)
- September 26: Day of the Deaf; World Contraception Day
- September 27: World Tourism Day
- September 29: World Heart Day
- September: world rivers day (last Saturday of September)
Important Dates and Days of October
- October 1: International Day for the Elderly
- October 2: Gandhi Jayanthi; International Day of Non-Violence
- October(first Monday): World Habitat Day
- October 4: World Animal Welfare Day
- October 8: Indian Air Force Day
- October 9: World Post Office Day
- October 10: National Post Day; World Mental Health Day
- October 2nd Thursday: World Sight Day
- October 13: UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
- October 14: World Standards Day
- October 15: World Students Day; World White Cane Day (guiding the blind)
- October 16: World Food Day
- October 24: UN Day; World Development Information Day
- October 30: World Thrift Day
Important Dates and Days of November
- November 5: World tsunami day
- November 7: National Cancer Awareness Day
- November 9: Legal Services Day
- November 14: Children’s Day; Diabetes Day
- November 17: National Epilepsy Day
- November 20: Africa Industrialization Day
- November 21: World Television Day
- November 29: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
Important Dates and Days of December
- December 1: World AIDS Day
- December 2: National Pollution Control
- December 3: World Day of the Handicapped
- December 4: Indian Navy Day
- December 7: Indian Armed Forces Flag Day
- December 10: Human Rights Day; IntI. Children’s Day of Broadcasting
- December 11: International Mountain Day
- December 14: World Energy Conservation Day
- December 16: Vijay Diwas
- December 18: Minorities Rights Day (India)
- December 22: National Mathematics Day
- December 23: Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day) (India)
- December 24: National Consumers Day
- December 25: Christmas Day
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