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August (/ˈɔːɡəst/ AW-gəst) is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.[1]
In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere. In many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers. The Perseid meteor shower always takes place in around July and August.
This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year. About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus (despite common belief, he did not take a day from February; see the debunked theory on month lengths). According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.[2]
August is the month with highest birth rate in the USA.[3]
Month-long observances
- National Lawn Games Month (United States)
- American Adventures Month (celebrating vacationing in the Americas)[4]
- Audio Appreciation Month[5]
- Children's Eye Health and Safety Month[6]
- National Children's Vision and Learning Month[7] (United States)
- Digestive Tract Paralysis (DTP) Month[8]
- Get Ready for Kindergarten Month[9]
- Happiness Happens Month
- Month of Philippine Languages (Philippines)[10]
- National Back to School Month (United States)
- National Black Business Month[11] (United States)
- National Goat Cheese Month.[12] (United States)
- National Immunization Awareness Month[13] (United States)
- National Panini Month[14]
- National Water Quality Month[15] (United States)
- Neurosurgery Outreach Month[16]
- Psoriasis Awareness Month[17]
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month[18]
- What Will Be Your Legacy Month[19]
- Win with Civility Month[20]
- Catfish Month[21]
- Family Meals Month[21]
- Get Acquainted with Kiwifruit Month[21]
- National Dippin' Dots Month[21]
- Peach Month[21]
- Sandwich Month[21]
Other events in August
- Construction Holiday (Quebec) (July 19-August 2)
- Farmer's Market Week 2015 date: August 5–11
- Māori Language Week (New Zealand) 2015 date: 27 July—2 August
- World Water Week in Stockholm 2015 date: August 23-August 28
- International Clown Week (August 1–7)
- World Breastfeeding Week (August 1–7)
- The Perseid meteor shower always takes place in around July and August. In 2015, it will peak in the mornings of August 11, 12, and 13.
- Season of Emancipation (April 14 to August 23) (Barbados)
Movable observances
- Ecological Debt Day (2015 date: August 19)
1st Saturday 2015 date - August 1
1st Sunday 2015 date - August 2
1st Monday 2015 date - August 3
- August Bank Holiday (Ireland)
- Children's Day (Tuvalu)
- Civic Holiday (Canada)
- Commerce Day (Iceland)
- Emancipation Day (Anguilla, Antigua, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis)
- Farmer's Day (Zambia)
- Kadooment Day (Barbados)
- Labor Day (Samoa)
- National Day (Jamaica)
- Picnic Day (Australia holiday)
- Somers' Day (Bermuda)
- Youth Day (Kiribati)
1st Tuesday 2015 date - August 4
1st Friday 2015 date - August 7
Sunday on or closest to August 9, 2015 date: August 9
2nd Sunday 2015 date - August 9
- Children's Day (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay)
- Father's Day (Brazil. Samoa)
- Melon Day (Turkmenistan)
- Navy Day (Bulgaria)
2nd Monday 2015 date - August 10
- Heroes' Day (Zimbabwe)
- Father's Day (Samoa) (Monday after the second Sunday in August)
- Victory Day (Hawaii and Rhode Island, United States)
2nd Tuesday 2015 date - August 11
3rd Saturday 2015 date - August 15
3rd Sunday - August 16
3rd Monday - August 17
- Day of Hearts (area around Haarlem and Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Discovery Day (Yukon, Canada)
3rd Friday - August 21
Sunday Nearest August 26 - August 23
Last Sunday August 30
Last Monday - August 31
- Father's Day (South Sudan)
- Heroes' Day (Philippines)
- Liberation Day (Hong Kong)
- Late Summer Bank Holiday (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)
Non-Gregorian observances
- Chaturmas 2015: July 27-November 22 (Hindu calendar, also observed in Jainism, Buddhism)
- Aadi Perukku 2015: August 3 (Tamil calendar, Hinduism)
- Ghanta Karna 2015: August 12 (Nepali calendar)
- Raksha Bandhan 2015: August 18 (Hindu calendar)
- Nag Panchami 2015 date August 19 (Hindu calendar)
- Qixi Festival 2015 date: August 20 (Chinese calendar)
- Rosh Hashanah LaBehema 2015: August 26 (Judaism)
- Shravana Putrada Ekadashi 2015: August 26 (Hindu calendar)
- Jhulan Purnima 2015: August 26–29 (Hindu calendar)
- Ghost Festival 2015: August 28 (Chinese calendar)
- Onam 2015: August 28 (Malayalam Calendar, Hinduism)
- Varalakshmi Vratam (Hindu calendar) 2015: August 28
- Kumbh Mela (Hindu calendar) 2015: 29 Aug – 18 September
- Raksha Bandhan 2015: August 29 (Hindu calendar)
- Teejdi 3rd day of Raksha Bandhan (Hindu calendar)
- Gai Jatra 2015: August 30 (Nepali calendar)
Fixed Observances
- August 1
- Armed Forces Day (Lebanon, People's Republic of China)
- Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
- Emancipation Day (Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands)
- Feast of Kamál (Perfection). (Bahá'í Faith, only if Bahá'í Naw-Rúz falls on March 21, which it does for 2015)
- Imbolc (Neopaganism, Southern hemisphere only)
- Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopaganism, Northern Hemisphere only)
- Lughnasadh (Ireland, Scotland, Neopaganism, Northern Hemisphere only)
- Minden Day (United Kingdom)
- National Day (Benin)
- Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
- Pachamama Raymi (Quechua)
- Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
- Statehood Day (Colorado, United States)
- Swiss National Day
- Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
- World Scout Scarf Day
- Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
- August 2
- August 3
- Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
- Arbor Day (Niger)
- Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
- Eshter Day (United States)
- Flag Day (Venezuela)
- Independence Day (Niger)
- National Guard Day (Venezuela)
- National Watermelon Day (United States)
- National White Wine Day (United States)
- Supplicia canum (Ancient Rome)
- August 4
- August 5
- August 6
- August 7
- August 8
- August 9
- August 10
- August 11
- August 12
- The first day of Awa Dance Festival (Tokushima, Japan)
- Glorious Twelfth (United Kingdom)
- HM the Queen's Birthday and National Mother's Day (Thailand)
- International Youth Day (United Nations)
- Paratroopers Day (Russia)
- Russian Air Force Day (Russia)
- Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)
- Sea Org Day (Scientology)
- World Elephant Day
- August 13
- August 14
- August 15
- Armed Forces Day (Poland)
- Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary, and related observances set on August 15th due to this one:
- Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches)
- Ferragosto (Italy)
- Māras (Latvia)
- Mother's Day (Antwerp and Costa Rica)
- National Acadian Day (Acadians)
- Navy Day (Romania)
- Virgin of Candelaria, patron of the Canary Islands. (Tenerife, Spain)
- The main day of Bon Festival (Japan), and its related observances:
- Constitution Day (Equatorial Guinea)
- End-of-war Memorial Day, when the National Memorial Service for War Dead is held. (Japan)
- The first day of Flooding of the Nile, or Wafaa El-Nil (Egypt and Coptic Church)
- Founding of Asunción (Paraguay)
- Independence Day (Korea)
- Gwangbokjeol (South Korea)
- Jogukhaebangui nal, "Fatherland Liberation Day" (North Korea)
- Independence Day (India)
- Independence Day (Republic of the Congo)
- National Day (Liechtenstein)
- National Mourning Day (Bangladesh)
- Victory over Japan Day (United Kingdom)
- August 16
- August 17
- Black Cat Appreciation Day
- The Birthday of Marcus Garvey (Rastafari)
- Engineer's Day (Colombia)
- Flag Day (Bolivia)
- Independence Day (Indonesia)
- Independence Day (Gabon)
- National Vanilla Custard Day (United States
- Portunalia (Ancient Rome)
- Prekmurje Union Day (Slovenia)
- San Martin Day (Argentina)
- Tiberinalia (Ancient Rome)
- August 18
- August 19
- Afghan Independence Day (Afghanistan)
- August Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)
- Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar), and its related observances:
- Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
- Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known as the "Apples Feast" (Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church)
- Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City and other places in The Philippines named after Manuel L. Quezon)
- National Aviation Day (United States)
- National Potato Day (United States)
- World Humanitarian Day
- August 20
- Feast of Asmá’ (Bahá'í Faith, only if Bahá'í Naw-Rúz falls on March 21, which it does for 2015)
- Indian Akshay Urja Day (India)
- Restoration of Independence Day (Estonia)
- Revolution of the King and People (Morocco)
- Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary)
- World Mosquito Day
- August 21
- Consualia (Ancient Rome
- Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
- Youth Day/King Mohammed VI's Birthday (Morocco)
- August 22
- August 23
- Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)
- European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day (European Union and other countries), and related observances:
- International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- Umhlanga Day (Swaziland)
- Vulcanalia (Roman Empire)
- August 24
- August 25
- August 26
- August 27
- August 28
- Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church (Public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Georgia (country))
- Crackers of the Keyboard Day
- National Cherry Turnover Day (United States)
- August 29
- August 30
- August 31
August symbols
- August's birthstones are the peridot and sardonyx.
- Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family.[22]
- The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).
References
- ^ "August." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 23 September 2008.
- ^ "Year of Julius Caesar, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed".
- ^ http://www.livescience.com/32728-baby-month-is-almost-here-.html
- ^ http://www.americanadventures.info/
- ^ http://learni.st/users/8158/boards/3114-august-is-audio-appreciation-month
- ^ http://www.hap.org/health/topic/eyemonth.php
- ^ http://www.covd.org/?page=August_VL
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- ^ https://www.ced.org/blog/entry/august-is-get-ready-for-kindergarten-month
- ^ https://www.remithome.com/newsletter-august-2012.html
- ^ http://blackbusinessmonth.com/
- ^ Bober, Mike. Celebrate National Goat Cheese Month with Local Favorites, dcfoodies.com
- ^ http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niam.html
- ^ http://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/08/20/why-is-national-panini-month-in-august/
- ^ http://www.goodspeaks.org/event/august-is-national-water-quality-month
- ^ http://www.aans.org/Patient%20Information/Neurosurgery%20Outreach%20Month.aspx
- ^ https://www.psoriasis.org/wellness
- ^ http://curesma.org/
- ^ http://www.gone-ta-pott.com/what-will-be-your-legacy-month.html
- ^ "MHprofessional.com".
- ^ a b c d e f "Food Days, Weeks, Months - August". UNL Food. University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
- ^ Birth months, flowers, and gemstones, shgresources.com
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