page_title: July
section_title: Fixed Events
hierarchical_section_title: July / Holidays / Fixed Events
caption_attribution_description: Snowbirds over Parliament in Ottawa. July 1, 2008.
context_page_description: July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, coming between June and August. It has 31 days. July was named after Julius Caesar. The mid-way point of the year is either on July 2 or in the night of July 1-2.
  July always begins on the same day of the week as April, and additionally, January in leap years. July doesn't end on the same day of the week as any other month in common years, but ends on the same day of the week as January in leap years.
context_section_description: July 1 – Canada Day, National Day of Canada
  July 1 – Independence Day in Somalia
  July 1 – Independence Day in Burundi
  July 1 – Independence Day in Rwanda
  July 1 – Keti Koti (Suriname)
  July 1 – Republic Day (Ghana)
  July 1 – Doctor's Day (India)
  July 2 – Canada Day, observed on this date if July 1 is a Sunday
  July 2 – Bahia Independence Day (Brazil)
  July 3 – Independence Day in Belarus
  July 3 – Emancipation Day (US Virgin Islands)
  July 4 – Independence Day in the United States, commemorating the Declaration of Independence.
  July 4 – Filipino-American Friendship Day
  July 4 – Liberation Day (Rwanda)
  July 5 – Independence Day in Venezuela
  July 5 – Independence Day in Algeria
  July 5 – Independence Day in Cape Verde
  July 6 – Independence Day in Malawi
  July 6 – Independence Day in the Comoros
  July 6-14 – San Fermin festival and bull run in Pamplona, Spain.
  July 7 – Independence Day in the Solomon Islands
  July 7 – Tanabata in Japan, traditional 'Make a Wish' celebration
  July 9 – Independence Day (Argentina)
  July 9 – Independence Day (South Sudan)
  July 10 – Independence Day in the Bahamas
  July 10 – Silence Day
  July 10 – Statehood Day (Wyoming)
  July 11 – Day of the Flemish Community (Belgium)
  July 11 – World Population Day
  July 11 – National Day of Commemoration (Ireland)
  July 11 to 13 – Naadam (Mongolia)
  July 12 – Battle of the Boyne/Orangeman's Day (Northern Ireland)
  July 12 – Independence Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
  July 12 – Independence Day in Kiribati
  July 13 – Statehood Day (Montenegro)
  July 14 – Bastille Day, national holiday of France
  July 14 – Republic Day (Iraq)
  July 15 – St. Swithun's Day in UK weather lore
  July 18 – Mandela Day
  July 18 – Constitution Day (Uruguay)
  July 19 – Sandinista Day (Nicaragua)
  July 20 – Independence Day (Colombia)
  July 21 – National Day of Belgium
  July 21 – Liberation Day (Guam)
  July 22 – Saint Mary Magdalene Day (Roman Catholicism)
  July 23 – Birthday of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
  July 23 – Revolution Day in Egypt
  July 24 – Pioneer Day (Utah)
  July 24 – Simon Bolivar Day (Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela)
  July 25 – Constitution Day (Occupation Day) in Puerto Rico
  July 25 – Christian feast day of Saint James, includes regional holiday in Galicia
  July 26 – Independence Day in Liberia
  July 26 – Independence Day in the Maldives
  July 27 – Victory Day (North Korea)
  July 28 – Independence Day in Peru
  July 28 – Liberation Day (San Marino)
  July 29 – Feast Day of St. Olav, celebrated in the Faroe Islands
  July 29 – International Tiger Day
  July 29 – World Hepatitis Day
  July 30 – Independence Day (Vanuatu)
  July 30 – Throne Day (Morocco)
  July 31 – Ka Hae Hawaii Day
caption: Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa
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