July - wikipedia July This article is about the month. For other uses, see July ( disambiguation ). `` Jul. '' redirects here. For other uses, see Jul. January February March April May June July August September October November December < < July > > Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2018 July is the seventh month of the year ( between June and August ) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the 10 - month calendar. It is on average the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere, where it is the second month of summer, and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the second month of winter. The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere. `` Dog days '' are considered to begin in early July in the Northern Hemisphere, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts. Spring lambs born in late winter or early spring are usually sold before 1 July. July is the traditional period known as `` fence month, '' the closed season for deer in England. The end of England 's High Court of Justice Trinity Term takes place on 31 July. July is also the time in which the elections take place for the Japanese House of Councillors, held every three years and replacing half of its seats. In Ancient Rome, the festival of Poplifugia was celebrated on 5 July, and Ludi Apollinares was held on 13 July and for several days afterwards. However, these dates do not correspond to the modern Gregorian calendar. Contents 1 July symbols 2 Observances 2.1 Month - long observances 2.2 Non-Gregorian observances : 2018 dates 2.3 Movable observances, 2018 2.3. 1 First Saturday : 2.3. 2 First Saturday and Sunday 2.3. 3 First Sunday 2.3. 4 Sunday closest to 2 July 2.3. 5 First full week in July 2.3. 6 First Monday 2.3. 7 Day after first Monday 2.3. 8 5 July or following Monday if it 's a weekend 2.3. 9 First Friday 2.3. 10 Second Sunday 2.3. 11 Nearest Sunday to 11 July 2.3. 12 Second Thursday 2.4 Third Sunday 2.4. 1 Third Monday 2.4. 2 Third Tuesday 2.4. 3 Weekend of fourth Saturday 2.4. 4 Fourth Sunday 2.4. 5 Second to last Sunday 2.4. 6 Fourth Thursday 2.4. 7 Thursday before the first Monday in August 2.4. 7.1 Following Friday 2.4. 8 Fourth Friday 2.4. 9 Last Friday 2.4. 10 Last Saturday 2.4. 11 Last Sunday 2.4. 12 Movable Western Christian observances, 2018 2.4. 13 Movable Eastern Christian observances, 2018 2.5 Fixed Gregorian observances 3 See also 4 References 5 External links July symbols July 's birthstone is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment. Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer ( until July 22 ) and Leo ( July 23 onwards ). Observances This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance. July, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Fireworks in Washington, DC, to celebrate Independence Day on July 4 Season of Emancipation 14 April to 23 August ( Barbados ) Honor America Days : 14 June to 4 July ( United States ) Month - long observances In Catholic tradition, July is the Month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. Group B Strep Awareness Month ( United States, United Kingdom ) National Hot Dog Month ( United States ) National Ice Cream Month ( United States ) Non-gregorian observances : 2018 dates ( Please note that 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. ) July 27 : Poya ( Buddhism, public holiday in Sri Lanka ) Movable observances, 2018 Phi Ta Khon ( Dan Sai, Loei province, Isan, Thailand ) -- Dates are selected by village mediums and can take place anywhere between March and July. Construction Holiday ( Quebec ) Shark Week ( United States ) Māori Language Week ( New Zealand ) Ra o te Ui Ariki ( Cook Islands ) Collector Car Appreciation Day ( United States ) Singapore International Water Week Senior Citizen 's Day ( Kiribati ) Engineer 's Days ( Singapore ) First Saturday : Día del Amigo ( Peru ) International Co-operative Day International Free Hugs Day First Saturday and Sunday Navy Days ( Netherlands ) First Sunday Navy Day ( Ukraine ) Youth Day ( Singapore ) Sunday closest to 2 July Alexanderson Day ( Sweden ) First full week in July NAIDOC Week ( Australia ) First Monday Carnival Monday, continues to next day ( Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ) CARICOM Day ( Guyana ) Heroes ' Day ( Zambia ) Mother 's Day ( South Sudan ) National Day ( Cayman Islands ) Day after first Monday Unity Day ( Zambia ) 5 July or following Monday if it 's a weekend Tynwald Day ( Isle of Man ) First Friday Fishermen 's Holiday ( Marshall Islands ) Second Sunday Construction Holiday ( Quebec ) ( Canada ) begins, lasts two weeks Father 's Day ( Uruguay ) Sea Sunday ( Western Christianity ) Nearest Sunday to 11 July National Day of Commemoration ( Ireland ) Second Thursday National Tree Day ( Mexico ) Third Sunday Galla Bayramy ( Turkmenistan ) National Ice Cream Day ( United States ) Third Monday Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera ( Puerto Rico, United States ) Children 's Day ( Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela ) Galla Bayramy ( Turkmenistan ) Marine Day ( Japan ) Presidents ' Day ( Botswana ) Third Tuesday Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera ( Puerto Rico, United States ) Mandela Day ( South Africa ) Weekend of fourth Saturday Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival ( Tobata, Japan ) Fourth Sunday Parents ' Day ( United States ) Second to last Sunday End of Construction Holiday ( Quebec ) ( Canada ) Fourth Thursday National Chili Dog Day ( United States ) Thursday before the first Monday in August Emancipation Day ( Bermuda ) Following Friday Somer 's Day ( Bermuda ) Fourth Friday Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival ( Tobata - ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan ) Last Friday National Schools Tree Day ( Australia ) System Administrator Appreciation Day Last Saturday Black Saturday ( France ) National Dance Day ( United States ) Last Sunday Father 's Day ( Dominican Republic ) National Tree Day ( Australia ) Navy Day ( Russia ) Reek Sunday ( Ireland ) Movable Western Christian observances, 2018 World Youth Day : Next observance is in 2019 ( Roman Catholicism ) Movable Eastern Christian observances, 2018 Vardavar : 8 July ( Armenia ) Fixed Gregorian observances July 1 Armed Forces Day ( Singapore ) Canada Day ( Canada ) Children 's Day ( Pakistan ) Communist Party of China Founding Day ( People 's Republic of China ) Day of Officials and Civil Servants ( Hungary ) Doctors ' Day ( India ) Emancipation Day ( Netherlands Antilles ) Engineer 's Day ( Bahrain, Mexico ) Feast of the Most Precious Blood ( removed from official Roman Catholic calendar since 1969 ) Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day ( Hong Kong, China ) Independence Day ( Burundi ) Independence Day ( Rwanda ) Independence Day ( Somalia ) International Tartan Day July Morning ( Bulgaria ) Keti Koti ( Emancipation Day ) ( Suriname ) Madeira Day ( Madeira, Portugal ) Moving Day ( Quebec ) ( Canada ) National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day ( United States ) National Gingersnap Day ( United States ) Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day Republic Day ( Ghana ) Sir Seretse Khama Day ( Botswana ) ) Territory Day ( British Virgin Islands ) Van Mahotsav, celebrated until July 7 ( India ) July 2 Flag Day ( Curaçao ) ( Kingdom of the Netherlands ) Palio di Provenzano ( Siena, Italy ) Police Day ( Azerbaijan ) World UFO Day July 3 The start of the dog days according to the Old Farmer 's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures. Emancipation Day ( United States Virgin Islands ) Independence Day ( Belarus ) Stay out of the Sun Day Women 's Day ( Myanmar ) July 4 Birthday of Queen Sonja ( Norway ) Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 ( Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India ) Independence Day ( Abkhazia ) Independence Day ( United States ) Liberation Day ( Northern Mariana Islands ) Liberation Day ( Rwanda ) Republic Day ( Philippines ) July 5 Armed Forces Day ( Venezuela ) Bloody Thursday ( International Longshore and Warehouse Union ) Constitution Day ( Armenia ) Emancipation Day ( New York City, United States ) Independence Day ( Algeria ) Independence Day ( Cape Verde ) Independence Day ( Venezuela ) Saints Cyril and Methodius Feast Day ( celebrated as a public holiday in Slovakia ) World Environment Day Arbor Day ( New Zealand ) X-Day ( Church of the SubGenius ) July 6 Constitution Day ( Cayman Islands ) Day of the Capital ( Kazakhstan ) National Fried Chicken Day ( United States ) Independence Day ( Comoros ) Independence Day / Republic Day, ( Malawi ) Jan Hus Day ( Czech Republic ) Kupala Night ( Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine ) Statehood Day ( Lithuania ) Teachers ' Day ( Peru ) July 7 Independence Day ( Solomon Islands ) Ivan Kupala Day ( Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine ) Saba Saba Day ( Tanzania ) Tanabata ( Japan, Gregorian date, some follow the traditional calendar ) World Chocolate Day July 8 Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day ( Ukraine ) Peter and Fevronia Day ( Russian Orthodox ) July 9 Arbor Day ( Cambodia ) Constitution Day ( Australia ) Constitution Day ( Palau ) Constitutionalist Revolution Day ( São Paulo ) Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service ( Azerbaijan ) Independence Day ( Argentina, South Sudan ) Nunavut Day ( Nunavut ) July 10 Armed Forces Day ( Mauritania ) Beatles Day ( Liverpool and Hamburg ) Independence Day ( Bahamas ) Nikola Tesla Day Silence Day ( Followers of Meher Baba ) Statehood Day ( Wyoming ) July 11 China National Maritime Day ( China ) Day of the Flemish Community ( Flemish Community of Belgium ) Eleventh Night ( Northern Ireland ) Gospel Day ( Kiribati ) Imamat Day ( Isma'ilism ) World Population Day ( International ) July 12 Birthday of the Heir to the Crown of Tonga ( Tonga ) Independence Day ( Kiribati, São Tomé and Príncipe ) Malala Day The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen 's Day ( Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador ) July 13 Statehood Day ( Montenegro ) July 14 Bastille Day ( France and French dependencies ) Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day ( Sweden ) Hondurans ' Day ( Honduras ) Republic Day ( Iraq ) July 15 Elderly Men Day ( Kiribati ) Sultan 's Birthday ( Brunei Darussalam ) July 16 Holocaust Memorial Day ( France ) July 17 International Firgun Day July 18 Constitution Day ( Uruguay ) Nelson Mandela International Day July 19 Liberation Day ( Nicaragua ) Martyrs ' Day ( Burma ) July 20 Día del Amigo ( Argentina ) Engineer 's Day ( Costa Rica ) Independence Day ( Colombia ) Lempira 's Day ( Honduras ) Tree Planting Day ( Central African Republic ) July 21 Belgian National Day Racial Harmony Day ( Singapore ) July 22 Foundation Day in Cleveland July 23 Birthday of Haile Selassie ( Rastafari ) Children 's Day ( Indonesia ) Flag Day ( Abkhazia ) National Hot Dog Day ( United States ) National Remembrance Day ( Papua New Guinea ) Renaissance Day ( Oman ) Revolution Day ( Egypt ) July 24 Children 's Day ( Vanuatu ) Navy Day ( Venezuela ) Pioneer Day ( Utah ) ( United States ) Simón Bolívar Day ( Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia ) July 25 Guanacaste Day ( Costa Rica ) National Day of Galicia ( Galicia ( Spain ) ) National Baha'i Day ( Jamaica ) Puerto Rico Constitution Day ( Puerto Rico ) Republic Day ( Tunisia ) Revolution Day ( Egypt ) July 26 Day of National Significance ( Barbados ) Day of the National Rebellion ( Cuba ) Independence Day ( Liberia ) Independence Day ( Maldives ) Kargil Victory Day ( India ) July 27 Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War ( North Korea ) Iglesia ni Cristo Day ( the Philippines ) José Celso Barbosa Day ( Puerto Rico ) Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers Day ( Vietnam ) National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day ( United States ) National Sleepy Head Day ( Finland ) July 28 Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval ( Canada ) Fiestas Patrias ( Peru ) Liberation Day ( San Marino ) Ólavsøka Eve ( Faroe Islands ) World Hepatitis Day July 29 International Tiger Day National Anthem Day ( Romania ) National Thai Language Day ( Thailand ) Ólavsøka, opening of the Løgting session ( Faroe Islands ) Olsok ( Faroe Islands, ( Finland, Norway ) July 30 Feast of the Throne ( Morocco ) International Day of Friendship Día del Amigo ( Paraguay ) Independence Day ( Vanuatu ) Martyrs Day ( South Sudan ) July 31 Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day ( Hawaii, United States ) Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh ( Haryana and Punjab, India ) Treasury Day ( Poland ) Warriors ' Day ( Malaysia ) See also List of historical anniversaries References Jump up ^ `` Myanmar Women 's Day Draws Criticism from Burmese Women ''. www2.irrawaddy.org. 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Question: who was the month of july named after
Answer: Roman general Julius Caesar