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August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and
the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days.[1] It was originally named Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
Sextilis in Latin because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, with March being the first month of the year. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
About 700 BC, it became the eighth month when January and February were 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29
days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
(708 AUC), giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, it was renamed in 29 30 31
honor of Augustus. According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he 2021
chose this month because it was the time of several of his great
triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.[2]
No other month starts on the same day of the week as August in
common years, but in leap years, August starts on the same day of the
week as February. It ends on the same day of the week as November
every year. In years preceding common years, it starts and ends on the
same day of the week as May of the following year. In years
preceding leap years, it begins and ends on the same day of the week Depiction of harvesting in the August
as October of the following year and ends on the same day of the calendar page of the Queen Mary
week as February of the following year. In common years preceded Psalter (fol. 78v), ca. 1310
by any year, August begins on the same day of the week as March
and November and ends on the same day of the week as March and
June. In leap years, it begins on the same day of the week as June of the previous year and ends on the same
day of the week as September of the previous year. In common years preceded by common years, August
begins on the same day of the week as February of the previous year.
In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere. In
many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers. Numerous religious holidays
occurred during August in ancient Rome.[3]
Certain meteor showers take place in August. The Kappa Cygnids take place in August, with the dates
varying each year. The Alpha Capricornids meteor shower takes place as early as July 10 and ends at around
August 10, and the Southern Delta Aquariids take place from mid-July to mid-August, with the peak usually
around July 28–29. The Perseids, a major meteor shower, typically takes place between July 17 and August
24, with the days of the peak varying yearly. The star cluster of Messier 30 is best observed around August.
Among the aborigines of the Canary Islands, especially among the Guanches of Tenerife, the month of August
received in the name of Beñesmer or Beñesmen, which was also the harvest festival held this month.[4][5]
Contents
August symbols
Observances
Non-Gregorian observances: 2020 dates
Month-long observances
United States month-long observances
Food Months in the United States
Moveable Gregorian observances, 2020
Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks: July 19 – August 1
1st Saturday: August 1
1st Sunday: August 2
First Full week of August: August 2–8
1st Monday: August 3
1st Tuesday: August 4
1st Friday: August 7
2nd Saturday: August 8
Sunday on or closest to August 9: August 9
2nd Sunday: August 9
2nd Monday: August 10
2nd Tuesday: August 11
3rd Saturday: August 15
3rd Sunday: August 16
3rd Monday: August 17
3rd Friday: August 21
Last Thursday: August 27
Last Sunday: August 30
Last Monday: August 31
Fixed Gregorian observances
References
Further reading
August symbols
August's birthstones are the peridot, sardonyx, and
spinel.[6]
Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty,
strength of character, love, marriage and family.[7]
The Western zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo
(until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).[8][9]
Observances
This list does not necessarily imply either official status or general
observance.
Gladiolus
Non-Gregorian observances: 2020 dates
(All Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at the sundown
prior to the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question
unless otherwise noted.)
List of observances set by the Bahá'í calendar
List of observances set by the Chinese calendar
List of observances set by the Hebrew calendar
List of observances set by the Islamic calendar
List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar Peridot gemstones
Month-long observances
American Adventures Month (celebrating vacationing in
the Americas)[10]
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month[11]
Digestive Tract Paralysis (DTP) Month[12]
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month[13]
Happiness Happens Month
Month of Philippine Languages or Buwan ng Wika Sardonyx stone
(Philippines)[14]
Neurosurgery Outreach Month[15]
Psoriasis Awareness Month[16]
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month[17]
What Will Be Your Legacy Month[18]
United States month-long observances
National Black Business Month[19]
National Children's Vision and Learning Month[20]
National Immunization Awareness Month[21]
National Princess Peach Month[22] Red spinel on calcite
National Water Quality Month[23]
National Win with Civility Month[24]
Food Months in the United States
National Catfish Month[25]
National Dippin' Dots Month[25]
Family Meals Month[25]
National Goat Cheese Month.[26]
National Panini Month[27]
Peach Month[25]
Sandwich Month[25]
Moveable Gregorian observances, 2020
National Science Week: August 15–23 [28] (Australia)
See also Movable Western Christian observances
See also Movable Eastern Christian observances
Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks: July 19 – August 1
Construction Holiday (Quebec)
1st Saturday: August 1
Food Day (Canada)
Mead Day (United States)
National Mustard Day (United States)
National Disc Golf Day (United States)
1st Sunday: August 2
Air Force Day (Ukraine)
American Family Day (Arizona, United States)
Children's Day (Uruguay)
Friendship Day (United States)
International Forgiveness Day
Railway Workers' Day (Russia)
First Full week of August: August 2–8
National Farmer's Market Week
1st Monday: August 3
August Public Holiday (Ireland)
Children's Day (Tuvalu)
Civic Holiday (Canada)
British Columbia Day (British Columbia, Canada)
Natal Day (Nova Scotia, Canada)
New Brunswick Day Day (New Brunswick, Canada)
Saskatchewan Day (Saskatchewan, Canada
Terry Fox Day (Manitoba, Canada)
Commerce Day (Iceland)
Emancipation Day (Anguilla, Antigua, The Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Dominica,
Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Farmer's Day (Zambia)
Kadooment Day (Barbados)
Labor Day (Samoa)
National Day (Jamaica)
Picnic Day (Northern Territory, Australia)
Somers' Day (Bermuda)
Youth Day (Kiribati)
1st Tuesday: August 4
National Night Out (United States)
1st Friday: August 7
International Beer Day
2nd Saturday: August 8
Sports Day (Russia)
Sunday on or closest to August 9: August 9
National Peacekeepers' Day (Canada)
2nd Sunday: August 9
Children's Day (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay)
Father's Day (Brazil, Samoa)
Melon Day (Turkmenistan)
Navy Day (Bulgaria)
International Lefthanders Day
2nd Monday: August 10
Heroes' Day (Zimbabwe)
Victory Day (Hawaii and Rhode Island, United States)
2nd Tuesday: August 11
Defence Forces Day (Zimbabwe)
3rd Saturday: August 15
National Honey Bee Day ([[United States]])
Independence Day ([[India]])
3rd Sunday: August 16
Children's Day (Argentina, Peru)
Grandparents Day (Hong Kong)
3rd Monday: August 17
Discovery Day (Yukon, Canada)
Day of Hearts (Haarlem and Amsterdam, Netherlands)
National Mourning Day (Bangladesh)
3rd Friday: August 21
Hawaii Admission Day (Hawaii, United States)
Last Thursday: August 27
National Burger Day (United Kingdom)
Last Sunday: August 30
Coal Miner's Day (some former Soviet Union countries)
National Grandparents Day (Taiwan)
Last Monday: August 31
Father's Day (South Sudan)
National Heroes' Day (Philippines)
Liberation Day (Hong Kong)
Late Summer Bank Holiday (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)
Fixed Gregorian observances
Season of Emancipation (Barbados) (April 14 to August 23)
International Clown Week (August 1–7)
World Breastfeeding Week (August 1–7)
August 1
Armed Forces Day (China)
Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
Emancipation Day (Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St.
Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands)
Imbolc (Neopaganism, Southern Hemisphere only)
Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopaganism, Northern Hemisphere only)
Lughnasadh (Gaels, Ireland, Scotland, Neopaganism, Northern Hemisphere only)
Minden Day (United Kingdom)
National Day (Benin)
National Milkshake Day (United States)
Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
Pachamama Raymi (Quechua people in Ecuador and Peru)
Parents' Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Statehood Day (Colorado)
Swiss National Day (Switzerland)
Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
World Scout Scarf Day
Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
August 2
Airmobile Forces Day (Ukraine)
Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)
Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)
Paratroopers Day (Russia)
Republic Day (North Macedonia)
August 3
Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
Esther Day (United States)
Flag Day (Venezuela)
Independence Day (Niger)
Arbor Day (Niger)
National Guard Day (Venezuela)
National Watermelon Day (United States)
National White Wine Day (United States)
August 4
Coast Guard Day (United States)
Constitution Day (Cook Islands)
Matica slovenská Day (Slovakia)
Revolution Day (Burkina Faso)
August 5
Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major (Catholic Church)
Independence Day (Burkina Faso)
National Underwear Day (United States)
Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders (Croatia)
August 6
Feast of the Transfiguration
H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
Independence Day (Bolivia)
Independence Day (Jamaica)
Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)
August 7
Assyrian Martyrs Day (Assyrian community)
Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)
Emancipation Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Independence Day (Ivory Coast)
Republic Day (Ivory Coast)
Youth Day (Kiribati)
August 8
Ceasefire Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Father's Day (Taiwan)
Happiness Happens Day (International observance)
International Cat Day
Namesday of Queen Silvia of Sweden, (Sweden)
Nane Nane Day (Tanzania)
Signal Troops Day (Ukraine)
August 9
Battle of Gangut Day (Russia)
International Day of the World's Indigenous People (United Nations)
National Day (Singapore)
National Women's Day (South Africa)
Remembrance for Radbod, King of the Frisians (The Troth)
August 10
Argentine Air Force Day (Argentina)
Constitution Day (Anguilla)
Declaration of Independence of Quito (Ecuador)
International Biodiesel Day
National S'more Day (United States)
August 11
Flag Day (Pakistan)
Independence Day (Chad)
Mountain Day (Japan)
August 12
Glorious Twelfth (United Kingdom)
HM the Queen's Birthday and National Mother's Day (Thailand)
International Youth Day (United Nations)
Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)
Sea Org Day (Scientology)
World Elephant Day
August 13
Independence Day (Central African Republic)
International Lefthanders Day
National Filet Mignon Day (United States)
Women's Day (Tunisia)
August 14
Anniversary Day (Tristan da Cunha)
Commemoration of Wadi al-Dahab (Morocco)
Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland (Abkhazia)
Engineer's Day (Dominican Republic)
Falklands Day (Falkland Islands)
Independence Day (Pakistan)
National Creamsicle Day (United States)
Pramuka Day (Indonesia)
August 15
Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary (Catholic holy days of obligation, a public holiday in
many countries.
Ferragosto (Italy)
Māras (Latvia)
Mother's Day (Antwerp and Costa Rica)
National Acadian Day (Acadians)
Virgin of Candelaria, patron of the Canary Islands. (Tenerife, Spain)
Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern
Catholic Churches)
Navy Day (Romania)
Armed Forces Day (Poland)**The first day of Flooding of the Nile, or Wafaa El-Nil (Egypt
and Coptic Church)
The main day of Bon Festival (Japan), and its related observances:
Awa Dance Festival (Tokushima Prefecture)
Constitution Day (Equatorial Guinea)
End-of-war Memorial Day, when the National Memorial Service for War Dead is held.
(Japan)
Founding of Asunción (Paraguay)
Independence Day (Korea)
Gwangbokjeol (South Korea)
Jogukhaebangui nal, "Fatherland Liberation Day" (North Korea)
Independence Day (India)
Independence Day (Republic of the Congo)
National Day (Liechtenstein)
National Mourning Day (Bangladesh)
Victory over Japan Day (United Kingdom)
National Lemon Meringue Pie Day (United States)
August 16
Bennington Battle Day (Vermont, United States)
Children's Day (Paraguay)
Gozan no Okuribi (Kyoto, Japan)
The first day of the Independence Days (Gabon)
National Airborne Day (United States)
National Rum Day (United States)
Restoration Day (Dominican Republic)
August 17
The Birthday of Marcus Garvey (Rastafari)
Engineer's Day (Colombia)
Flag Day (Bolivia)
Independence Day (Indonesia)
Independence Days (Gabon)
National Vanilla Custard Day (United States)
Prekmurje Union Day (Slovenia)
San Martin Day (Argentina)
August 18
Arbor Day (Pakistan)
Armed Forces Day (North Macedonia)
Bad Poetry Day
Birthday of Virginia Dare (Roanoke Island)
Constitution Day (Indonesia)
Long Tan Day (Australia)
National Science Day (Thailand)
August 19
Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar), and its related observances:
Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known as the "Apples Feast" (Russian Orthodox
Church and Georgian Orthodox Church)
Afghan Independence Day (Afghanistan)
August Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)
Birthday of Crown Princess Mette-Marit (Norway)
Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City and other places in The Philippines named after
Manuel L. Quezon)
National Aviation Day (United States)
National Potato Day (United States)
World Humanitarian Day
August 20
Indian Akshay Urja Day (India)
Restoration of Independence Day (Estonia)
Revolution of the King and People (Morocco)
Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary)
World Mosquito Day
August 21
Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
Youth Day/King Mohammed VI's Birthday (Morocco)
August 22
Feast of the Coronation of Mary
Flag Day (Russia)
Madras Day (Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India)
National Eat a Peach Day (United States)
National Pecan Torte Day (United States)
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day (Chase's Calendar of Events, Southern
Hemisphere)
August 23
Battle of Kursk Day (Russia)
Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day
(European Union and other countries), and related observances:
Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romania)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Umhlanga Day (Swaziland)
August 24
Flag Day (Liberia)
Independence Day of Ukraine
International Strange Music Day
National Waffle Day (United States)
Nostalgia Night (Uruguay)
Willka Raymi (Cusco, Peru)
August 25
Day of Songun (North Korea)
Independence Day (Uruguay)
Liberation Day (France)
National Banana Split Day (United States)
National Whiskey Sour Day (United States)
Soldier's Day (Brazil)
August 26
Herero Day (Namibia)
Heroes' Day (Namibia)
Repentance Day (Papua New Guinea)
Derrick, the most amazing man in the World Day (The world)
Women's Equality Day (United States)
August 27
Film and Movies Day (Russia)
Independence Day (Republic of Moldova)
Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas, United States)
National Banana Lovers Day (United States)
National Pots De Creme Day (United States)
August 28
Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church (Public holiday in North Macedonia, Serbia,
and Georgia (country))
Crackers of the Keyboard Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
National Cherry Turnover Day (United States)
August 29
International Day against Nuclear Tests
Miners' Day (Ukraine)
More Herbs, Less Salt Day
National Lemon Juice Day (United States)
National Chop Suey Day (United States)
National Sports Day (India)
Slovak National Uprising Anniversary (Slovakia)
Telugu Language Day (India)
August 30
Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
Independence Day (Tatarstan, Russia, unrecognized)
International Day of the Disappeared (International)
Popular Consultation Day (East Timor)
Saint Rose of Lima's Day (Peru)
Victory Day (Turkey)
August 31
Baloch-Pakhtun Unity Day (Balochs and Pashtuns, International observance)
Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)
Independence Day (Federation of Malaya, Malaysia)
Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Independence Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Love Litigating Lawyers Day
National Language Day (Moldova)
National Trail Mix Day (United States)
North Borneo Self-government Day (Sabah, Borneo)
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