July observances

Sankranti () refers to the transmigration of the sun from one zodiac to another in Indian astronomy. In Saurmana varsha (Hindu Solar year), there are twelve Sankrantis corresponding with twelve months of a year. The Sankrantis can be broadly classified into four main categories: Ayan (Solstice), Vishuva (Equinox), Vishupadi and Shadshitimukhi sankrantis. Each Sankranti is marked as the beginning of a month in the sidereal solar calendars followed in South Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka; Himalayan states: Jammu region, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nort

awareness day for people to gather and watch the skies for unidentified flying objects

national holiday in Ukraine

festival of roses in the Roman Empire

In ancient Roman religion, the Furrinalia (or Furinalia) was an annual festival held on 25 July to celebrate the rites (sacra) of the goddess Furrina. Varro notes that the festival was a public holiday (feriae publicae dies). Both the festival and the goddess had become obscure even to the Romans of the Late Republic; Varro (mid-1st century BC) notes that few people in his day even know her name. One of the fifteen flamines (high priests of official cult) was assigned to her, indicating her archaic stature, and she had a sacred grove (lucus) on the Janiculum, which may have been the location o

thumb|300px|Celebrating the Adonia: fragment of an Attic red-figure wedding vase, ca. 430–420 BCE

In ancient Roman religion, the Lucaria was a festival of the grove (Latin lucus) held 19 and 21 July. The original meaning of the ritual was obscure by the time of Varro (mid-1st century BC), who omits it in his list of festivals. The deity for whom it was celebrated is unknown; if a ritual for grove-clearing recorded by Cato pertains to this festival, the invocation was deliberately anonymous (Si deus, si dea). The dates of the Lucaria are recorded in the Fasti Amiterni, a calendar dating from the reign of Tiberius found at Amiternum (now S. Vittorino) in Sabine territory.

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Chaturmasya (; Pali: Catumāsa), also rendered Chāturmāsa, is a holy period of four months, beginning on Shayani Ekadashi (June-July) and ending on Prabodhini Ekadashi (October-November) in Hinduism. This period also coincides with the monsoon season in India.

festival in Bulgaria

celebration of Scottish heritage

yearly remembrance of the Battle of the Golden Spurs

national holiday of Galicia, Spain

public holiday in Montenegro

Annual festival in Kyushu, Japan

The Noumenia (, lit: new moon) is the first day of the lunar month and also a religious observance in ancient Athens and much of Greece (cf. Attic calendar).

public commemoration in South Korea

The Kronia or Cronia () was an Athenian festival held in honor of Kronos (Cronus) on the 12th day of Hekatombaion, the first month of the Attic calendar, and roughly equivalent to the latter part of July and first part of August.

public holiday in the Isle of Man

thumb|upright|The cross of flowers – the armorial of [[Verdal Municipality – at Stiklestad during Olsok in July 2013.]] thumbnail|Olav den hellige stumps at the [[Battle of Stiklestad.]] Olsok () is a national day of celebration on July 29 in the Nordic countries of Norway and the Faroe Islands, and also in the provinces of Härjedalen in Sweden and Savonlinna in Finland.

month-long observance in July

annual observance to commemorate victims of the Holocaust

Hindu festival

public holiday in Sarawak, Malaysia

Bonalu (Telugu: బోనాలు) is a traditional festival centred on the Hindu goddess Mahakali from Telangana. This festival is celebrated annually in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, as well as in other parts of the state. It is celebrated in the month of Ashada Masam, which is around July and/or August. Special "poojas" (worship/ ceremonies) are performed for Yellamma (one of the many regional forms of Mahakali) on the first and last day of the festival. The festival is also considered a thanksgiving to Mahakali for fulfillment of vows.

public holiday in Lithuania

The Synoikia () was an ancient Greek festival held in Athens commemorating the political unification of Attica. It was also called the Thesean Synoikismos and the Feast of Union, and celebrated Theseus as founder of Athens and the goddess Athena as the city's patron goddess. The festival was celebrated in the month of Hekatombeion on the 16th. A two-day festival, on the 15th and the 16th was held every second year.

event in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark (Long Ending), in which after the ascension of Jesus, his disciples “went out and preached everywhere”

Public holiday in Myanmar

public holiday in the Philippines

Ulster Protestant celebration in Northern Ireland

Hindu festival held every 144 years

Harela is a Hindu festival celebrated in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and mainly in Mahasu region of Himachal Pradesh. This festival is very popular in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, and is celebrated by the name Harela. This name is used in some places of Garhwal but, it is not commonly used, as the festival is celebrated as Mol-Sankranti or as Rai-Sagrān. It is called Hariyali/Rihyali in Kangra, Shimla and Sirmaur districts, and Dakhrain in Jubbal and Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh.

annual celebration in Finland

South Indian Hindu festival

In ancient Greece, the Buphonia ( "ox-slayings") denoted a sacrificial ceremony performed at Athens as part of the Dipolieia, a religious festival held on the 14th of the midsummer month Skirophorion—in June or July—at the Acropolis. In the Buphonia a working ox was sacrificed to Zeus Polieus (Zeus protector of the city), which shows parallels to traditional rituals customs from early antiquity. A group of oxen was driven forward to the altar at the highest point of the Acropolis. On the altar a sacrifice of grain had been spread by members of the family of the Kentriadae, on whom this duty de

A day to celebrate the founding of Scouting

group of festivals held in Dan Sai, Thailand

holiday in Singapore (21 July), commemorating the Race Riots on 21 July 1964

national holiday in Algeria

shiv the man

holiday observed on July 8

religious vow by Iberian kingdoms to Saint James

U.S. unofficial observance, July 6

public holiday in Turkey commemorating the failed coup d'état in 2016

ancient Greek festival in honor of Heracles in Athens and elsewhere

initiative to promote the use of te reo Māori

a Hindu festival from Tripura

The Poplifugia or Populifugia (Latin: ''the people's flight'') was a festival of ancient Rome celebrated on July 5, according to Varro. This festival commemorated Romans' flight during a critical period when the inhabitants of Ficuleae and Fidenae took up arms against them. This occurred shortly after the city had been ravaged by the Gauls (see Battle of the Allia). The subsequent traditional Roman victory was commemorated on July 7, known as the Nonae Caprotinae, serving as a feast dedicated to Juno Caprotina. On the following day, the Vitulatio took place, which was believed to signify the t

commemoration and public holiday to mark emancipation of enslaved people

carnival in Tunisia

Swedish crown princess Victoria's birthday, 14 July

event in Buenos Aires, Argentina

former name of national holidays in Canada and New Zealand

ancient Iranian tradition celebrated 127 days after Nowruz

former public holiday in Kashmir, commemoration of the massacres of 1931

31 July

public holiday in Argentina

public holiday in Rwanda commemorating the end of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi