Calendar dates to help you plan your events and social media schedule
January
January 1: New Years Day
January 4: National Trivia Day #NationalTriviaDay (USA)
January 15: National Hat Day #NationalHatDay (USA)
January 15: National Bagel Day #NationalBagelDay (USA)
January 17: Ditch Your Resolution Day #DitchYourResolutionDay
January 25: Opposite Day #OppositeDAy
January 26: Australia Day #AustraliaDay
Blue Monday: Third Monday of January
February
February 8: Safer Internet Day
February 9: National Pizza Day #NationalPizzaDay
February 11: International Day of Women and Girls in Science #WomenInScience
February 17: #RandomActsOfKindnessDay
**Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (First day of Lent)
**Chinese New Year
March
March 3: World Wildlife Day #WorldWildlifeDay
March 4: World Book Day #WorldBookDay
March 8: International Women’s Day #InternationalWomensDay #IWD[YEAR]
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 19: World Sleep Day
March 20: International Day of Happiness #InternationalDayofHappiness
March 22: World Water Day #WorldWaterDay #Water2me
**Palm Sunday – Sunday before Easter
**Good Friday – see calendar
**Easter Sunday – see calendar
**Holy Monday – see calendar
**Holy Week – see calendar
**Maundy Thursday – see calendar
April
April 1: Walk to Work Day
April 7: World Health Day
April 10: Siblings’ Day #NationalSiblingsDay
April 11: National Pet Day #NationalPetDay
April 22: Earth Day
April 25 Anzac Day #AnzacDay
April 28: National Superhero Day
April 29: International Dance Day #InternationalDanceDay
May
May 4: Thank a Teacher Day #ThankATeacher
May 4: Star Wars Day #StarWarsDay, #MayThe4thBeWithYou
May 12: International Nurses Day
May 18: International Museums Day
May 28: World Hunger Day
**Pentecost – check calendar
**Trinity Sunday – first Sunday after Pentecost – check calendar
June
June 1: International Children’s Day
June 3: Global Running Day
June 3: World Bicycle Day
June 4: National Cheese Day (USA)
June 4: National Donut Day (USA) #NationalDonutDay
June 6: Higher Education Day #HigherEducationDay
June 8: Best Friends Day #BestFriendsDay
June 8: World Oceans Day #WorldOceansDay
June 21: World Music Day
June 21: National Selfie Day #NationalSelfieDay
June 30: Social Media Day #SMDay, #SocialMediaDay
July
July 3: International Plastic Bag Free Day
July 6: International Kissing Day
July 7: World Chocolate Day #WorldChocolateDay
July 15: Social Media Giving Day
July 17: World Emoji Day #WorldEmojiDay
July 18: National Ice Cream Day (USA)
July 18: World Listening Day
July 30: International Friendship Day
August
August 8: International Cat Day #InternationalCatDay
August 12: International Youth Day #YouthDay
August 14: National Financial Awareness Day (USA)
August 19: World Photo Day #WorldPhotoDay
August 26: National Dog Day (USA) #NationalDogDay
September
September 12: National Video Games Day #NationalVideoGamesDay (USA)
September 21: World Alzheimer’s Day
September 30: International Podcast Day #InternationalPodcastDay
**RUOK Day – Check https://www.ruok.org.au/join-r-u-ok-day for the date
October
October 1: International Coffee Day #InternationalCoffeeDay
October 4-10: World Space Week
October 5: International Teachers Day #WorldTeachersDay
October 10: World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHeathDay
October 29: National Cat Day (USA)
November
November 8: Social Media Kindness Day
November 13: World Kindness Day #WKD
Cyber Monday: Monday following Thanksgiving Day (USA)
Giving Tuesday: Tuesday following Thanksgiving Day (USA)
December
December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 4: National Cookie Day (USA)
December 24: Christmas Eve
December 25: Christmas Day
December 31: New Years Eve
