Important days, this section is usually asked in almost all Government Competitive Exams like RRB, IBPS, SSC, Railways, and so many state level exams. Here we compiled the list of important days on the basis of events and festivals in India and across the world.
Check the table of month-wise important days and dates, which are given here :
Important Days in January 2021
Date
Important Days
1st January
English New Year, Army Medical Corps Establishment Day, Global family day, World Peace Day
4th January
World Braille Day
6th January
World War Orphans Day
8th January
African National Congress Foundation Day
9th January
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas NRI Day
10th January
World LAugusthter Day, World Hindi Day
11th January
Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
12th January
National Youth Day (Birthday of Swami Vivekanand)
15th January
Army Day (Field Marshall K.M. Cariappa took over the command of Army on this day in 1949 from the British), Pongal, Makar Sankranti
23rd January
Netaji Subhash Chandra bose birthday
24th January
National Girl Child day of India
25th January
International Customs Duty Day, India Tourism Day, National Voters Day
26th January
Republic Day of India and International Customs day
27th January
International Holocaust Day (The largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz- Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan 27, 1945.), International Day of Commemoration
28th January
Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
30th January
Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day (Martyr’s day), World Leprosy Eradication Day
Important Days in February 2021
Date
Important Days
1st February
Indian Coast Guard Day
2nd February
World Wetlands Day
4th February
World Cancer Day, National Day of Sri Lanka
6th February
International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation
7th February
International Development Week
11th February
World Day of the Sick
2nd Sunday of February
World Marriage Day
12th February
Darwin Day, Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
13th February
Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary
14th February
Saint Valentine’s Day
18th February
Taj Mahotsav
20th February
World Day of Social Justice
21st February
International Mother Language Day
22nd February
World Scout Day
23rd February
World Peace and Understanding Day
24th February
Central Excise Day
27th February
World Sustainable Energy Day
28th February
National Science Day
Important Days in March 2021
Date
Important Days
1st March
Zero Discrimination Day, World Civil Defence Day
3rd March
World Wildlife Day, World Hearing Day
4th March
National Safety Day
8th March
International Women’s Day
10th March
CISF Raising Day
13th March
No Smoking Day (Second Wednesday of March)
14th March
Pi Day, World Kidney Day, International Day of Action for Rivers,
15th March
World Consumer Rights Day, Ramakrishna Jayanti
16th March
National Vaccination Day
18th March
Ordnance Factories Day (India)
20th March
International Day of Happiness, World Oral Health Day, World Sparrow Day, French Language Day (French)
21th March
World Forestry Day, World Down Syndrome Day, World Poetry Day
22nd March
World Water Day
23rd March
World Meteorological Day
24th March
World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
27th March
World Theatre Day
Important Days in April 2021
Date
Important Days
1st April
Orissa Day, Prevention of Blindness Week
2th April
World Autism Awareness Day
4th April
International Day for Mine Awareness
5th April
National Maritime Day
7th April
World Health Day
10th April
World Homeopathy Day
11th April
National Safe Motherhood Day, National Pet Day
13th April
Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre Day (1919)
17th April
World Haemophilia Day
18th April
World Heritage Day
21st April
National Civil Service Day, Secretaries’s Day
22nd April
World Earth Day
23th April
World Book and Copyright Day
24th April
National Panchayati Day
25th April
World Malaria Day
26th April
World Intellectual Property Day
28th April
World Day for Safety and Health at Work, World Veterinary Day
Important Days in May 2021
Date
Important Days
1st May
International Labour Day, Labour Day, Maharashtra Day, Sikkim International Flower Festival, Law Day (USA), Loyalty Day
2nd May
Brighton Festival, World Naked Gardening Day
3rd May
World Press Freedom Day, World Laughter Day
4th May
World Asthma Day, International Firefighters’s Day, Coal Miners Day
5th May
International Midwives’s Day, World Athletics Day (IAAF)
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War, Canadian Tulip Festival, Luton International Carnival, World Red Cross Day, Summer Festival – Mount Abu
9th May
World Fair Trade Day
10th May
Mother’s Day
11th May
National Technology Day (India)
12th May
International Nurses Day, Cannes Film Festival, Nebraska Children’s Groundwater Festival
14th May
World Migratory Day
15th May
International Day of the Family
17th May
World Telecommunication Day (Information Society Day)
20th May
Indonesian National Resurgence Day
21st May
Anti-Terrorism Day, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, World Day for Cultural Development
22nd May
International Day for Biological Diversity, National Maritime Day – USA, Waterloo Wellington Children’s Groundwater Festival, Big Apple Salsa Festival
23rd May
World Durian Festival, World Turtle Day, Movement Electronic Music Festival – Detroit
24th May
Commonwealth Day
25th May
Towel Day, Reading Community Carnival,U.S. Memorial Day, Maharana Pratap Jayanti
26th May
Northern Saskatchewan International Children’s Festival, Gunners Day (New Zealand)
31st May
Anti-Tobacco Day
Important Days in June 2021
Date
Important Days
1st June
Global Parents Day, World Milk Day
2nd June
Telangana Formation Day
4th June
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5th June
World Environment Day
7th June
International Level Crossing Awareness Day
8th June
World Ocean Day, World Brain Tumour Day
12th June
World Day Against Child Labour
14th June
World Blood Donor Day
15th June
Global Wind Day, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
17th June
World Day to Combat Desertifi Cation and Drought
20th June
World Refugee Day
21st June
Father’s day June (3rd Sunday), World Music Day, World Hydrography Day, International Yoga Day
23th June
United Nation’s Public Service Day, International Widow’s Day, International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day
26th June
International Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking
27th June
World Diabetes Day
30th June
World Asteroid Day
Important Days in July 2021
Date
Important Days
1st July
National Postal Worker Day, Canada Day, Chartered Accountants Day, National U.S. Postage Stamp Day, World Sports Journalists Day
2nd July
World UFO Day, National Anisette Day
3rd July
National Fried Clam Day
4th July
USA Independence Day
6th July
World Zoonoses Day
7th July
World Chocolate Day
9th July
National Sugar Cookie Day
11th July
World Population Day, National 7-Eleven Day
12th July
National Simplicity Day,Jagannath Puri Rath Yatra 2021,Paper Bag Day
13th July
National French Fry Day
14th July
Bastille Day or French National Day
15th July
World Youth Skills Day,
17th July
World Day for International Justice, World Emoji Day
18th July
International Nelson Mandela Day
20th July
International Chess Day, Moon Day
22nd July
Pi Approximation Day, National Refreshment Day (Fourth Thursday in July)
24th July
National Thermal Engineer Day
25th July
National Parents Day (4th Sunday of July)
26th July
Kargil Vijay Diwas
28th July
World Nature Conservation Day, World Hepatitis Day
29th July
International Tiger Day
30th July
International Friendship Day
Important Days in August 2021
Date
Important Days
2nd August
International Friendship Day
3rd August
Independence Day of Niger
5th August
Independence day of upper Volta
6th August
Hiroshima Day
9th August
International Day of World’s Indigenous People, Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day
12th August
International Youth Day
14th August
Independence Day of Pakistan
15th August
Independence Day of India
19th August
World Photography Day
20th August
Sadbhavna Diwas
23rd August
International Day for The Remembrance of The Slave Trade and Its Abolition
29th August
National Sports Day
30th August
Small Industry Day
Important Days in September 2021
Date
Important Days
5th September
Teachers’ Day (India) (Dr. Radhakrishnan’s Birthday), Forgiveness Day
8th September
World Literacy Day
14th September
Hindi day, World First Air Day
15th September
Engineer’s Day in India
16th September
World Ozone Day
21st September
Alzheimer’s Day, International day of peace
25th September
Social Justice Day
26th September
Day of the Deaf
27th September
World Tourism Day
Important Days in October 2021
Date
Important Days
1st October
International Day of The Older Person
2nd October
Mahatma Gandhi Birthday, Lal Bahadur Shastri Birthday, International Day of Non-Violence
3rd October
World Habitat Day, World Nature Day
4th October
World Animal Welfare Day
5th October
World Teacher’s Day
6th October
World Wildlife Day, World Food Security Day
8th October
Indian Air Force Day
9th October
World Post Office Day
10th October
National Post Day
11th October
International Girl Child Day
12th October
World Arthritis Day
13th October
UN International Day for National Disaster Reduction
14th October
World Standards Day
15th October
World White Cane Day (Guiding the Blind)
16th October
World Food Day
17th October
International Day for The Eradication of Poverty
20th October
World Statistics Day
24th October
UN Day, World Development Information Day
30th October
World Thrift Day
31st October
Rastriya Ekta Diwas (In Memory of Sardar Patel), National Integration Day (In memory of Indira Gandhi)
Important Days in November 2021
Date
Important Days
1st November
World Vegan Day
5th November
World Radiography Day
7th November
Infant Protection Day, World Cancer Awareness Day
9th November
World Services Day
10th November
Transport Day
14th November
Children’s Day in India (Jawaharlal Nehru Birthday)
16th November
International day for Endurance
17th November
World Student Day, National Journalism Day
18th November
World Adult Day
19th November
World Citizen Day
20th November
Africa Industrialization Day, Universal Children Day
21st November
World Television Day, World Fisheries Day
25th November
World Non-Veg Day
26th November
Law Day
29th November
International Day of Solidarity With Palestinian People
30th November
Flag Day
Important Days in December 2021
Date
Important Days
1st December
World Aids Day
2nd December
World Computer Literacy Day, International Day of Abolition of Slavery
3rd December
International Day of People With Disabilities, World Conservation Day
4th December
Navy Day
5th December
International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
7th December
Armed Forces Flag Day, International Civil Aviation Day
