Notable Days

34th Black History Month (UK)

International Day of Education

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Human Rights Day

Martin Luther King Day

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

Chinese New Year

70th Anniversary of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the British Throne

LGBT History Month

Black History Month (US)

50th Anniversary of Nixons's Visit to China

International Mother Language Day

International Women’s Day (IWD)

Women's History Month

FA Cup - 150th Anniversary

St Patrick’s Day

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Pesach (Passover)

May Day (International Workers’ Day)

World Ocean Day

Summer Solstice

50th Anniversary of First Official UK Gay Pride Rally

Emmeline Pankhurst

South Asian Heritage Month 2022

Emancipation Day

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Women's Equality Day

Partition of the Indian Subcontinent 75 Years

Anniversary of the Birth of Marsha P. Johnson

Anniversary of the Death of Noor Inayat Khan

Black History Month (UK)

Indigenous Peoples' Day

Remembrance Day

Anniversary of Rosa Parks Arrest

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Winter Solstice

50th anniversary of the signing of the Basic Treaty between East and West Germany

One hundred years since the Irish Free State was established

Seventy-five years since the opening of Britain's first "supermarket"

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

250 years: Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.

International Day of Education

Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun

Saint David's Day

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

International Mother Language Day 2023

Black History Month - 2023

Ten years since the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill passed the House of Commons

LGBT+ History Month

Maha Shivaratri

Women’s History Month 2023

International Women’s Day 2023

St. Patrick’s Day

Independence Day of Bangladesh

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Pesach (Passover)

70 years: Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale

Eid al-Fitr 2023

May Day (International Workers' Day)

100 years: The Empire Stadium, Wembley is opened to the public for the first time and holds the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United football clubs

50 Years: The Bristol Bus Boycott

African World Heritage Day

70 years: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

75 years: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated as the state of Israel comes into being.

225 years: Outbreak of the 1798 rebellion led by the United Irishmen

Eid al-Adha 2023

650 years: The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England and Portugal

75th Anniversary of The National Health Service

Summer Solstice

Cornelia Sorabji: India’s First Female Lawyer

Happy Fourth of July!

South Asian Heritage Month 2023

Al Hijra (Islamic New Year)

65 years: The Quarrymen, who later became The Beatles, record their first demo in Liverpool

Emmeline Pankhurst: Born this day (15/07/1858)

100 Years: Matrimonial Causes Act of 1923

60 Years Since the Great Train Robbery

Nelson Mandela International Day

The Eruption of Mont Vesuvius 79CE

Emancipation Day

The First World War Begins

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Anniversary of the Birth of Marsha P. Johnson

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Women's Equality Day

Dividing the Subcontinent: The Radcliffe Line and its Aftermath

Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Krishna Janmashtami

Rasksha Bandhan

Native American Day

250 Years Since the Burning of the Peggy Stewart

Indigenous Peoples Day (U.S.A.)

700 years: Death of explorer Marco Polo

100 Years since the World's First Radio Play was Broadcast by the BBC

Interrogation of John/Eleanor Rykener

95th Anniversary of the Death of Millicent Fawcett

Black History Month

The start of the Stonewall Riots

90 years: Ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham

230 years: The execution of Marie Antionette

90 years: The first photo of the Loch Ness Monster

100 Years of Disney

Remembrance Day (UK)

50th Anniversary of the Death of Karpal Kaur Sandhu

305 years: Anniversary of Blackbeard's death

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

120 years: The world's first successful motor-powered flight

180th anniversary of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

250 years: The Boston Tea Party

Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)

Martin Luther King Jr. Day (US)

60 Years Since the Campaign for Social Justice in Northern Ireland was Founded

80 Years Since the Death of Norwegian Artist, Edvard Munch

100 Years: Ramsay MacDonald Becomes First Labour Party Prime Minister

International Day of Education 2024

100 Years: Margaret Bondfield Appointed as the First Female Government Minister

100 Years Since the First Winter Olympics

60 years since The Beatles achieved their first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

LGBT+ History Month 2024

45 Years Ago: Virginity Tests and South Asian Women in 1970s Britain

100 Years: Greenwich Time Signal 'Pips' Broadcast by the BBC for the first time

60 years Since the British and French Governments Announced Plans For the Construction of the Channel Tunnel

Lunar New Year 2024

Darwin Day 2024

International Mother Language Day 2024

350 Years: Treaty of Westminster signed, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War

Saint David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant)

Women's History Month 2024

International Women’s Day 2024

First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826)

75 Year Anniversary of the Death of Sarojini Naidu

Maha Shivaratri 2024

20 years: Architect Zaha Hadid becomes the first female recipient of the Pritzker Prize

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

St. Patrick's Day

75 years: NATO is founded

Independence Day of Bangladesh

Good Friday 2024

Eid al-Fitr 2024

Pesach (Passover) 2024

May Day (International Workers' Day)

200th Anniversary of the Birth of Immanuel Kant

45 Years: The Southall Race Riots

African World Heritage Day

70 years: Roger Bannister and the Four Minute Mile

200 Years of The National Gallery

30 Years Since Nelson Mandela Became President of South Africa

60 Years Since John Hume's "The Northern Catholic" is Published

10 Year Anniversary of the Death of Maya Angelou

250 Years Since the 1774 Madhouses Act Gained Royal Assent

50 Years Since the Fall of the Northern Ireland Executive

75 Years Since George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is Published

80 Years Since the D-Day Landings

Eid al-Adha 2024

200 Years Since The RSPCA Was Established In Great Britain

80 Years Since Germany Launched the First V-1 Missile Attack on Britain

75 Years since Georgia Neese Clark Became the First Female Treasurer of the United States

Summer Solstice

Windrush Day 2024

American Independence Day

110 Years Since the First World War Began

The 90th Anniversary Of The Death Of Marie Curie

80 years since Anne Frank's final diary entry

100th Anniversary of the Death of Joseph Conrad

Al Hijra (Islamic New Year)

70 Years Since the Death of Mexican Artist, Frida Kahlo

225 Years Since The Rosetta Stone Was Found In Egypt By Napoleonic Forces

Nelson Mandela International Day

South Asian Heritage Month 2024

100 Years Since The Dawes Plan Was Accepted

Emancipation Day

90 Years Since The British Empire Games Opened In London

Women's Equality Day

International Day For The Remembrance Of The Slave Trade And Its Abolition

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

80th Anniversary of the Death of Noor Inayat Khan

Native American Day

Krishna Janmashtami

85 Years Since the Outbreak of the Second World War

Anniversary of the Shortest War in Human History: the Anglo-Zanzibar War

Ganesh Chaturthi 2024

70 years since marble head of Mithras unearthed in Walbrook

Black History Month 2024

125 Years Since the Second Boer War began

Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024

100 Years Since the Publication of the "Zinoviev Letter"

70 Years Since the Death of Iconic French Modernist Artist, Henri Matisse

55 Years Since BBC One Launched its First Full Colour Service