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Calendar

January

February

St Brigid of Kildare (1st February 525AD/CE)

Groundhog Day (2nd February)

The Day the Music Died (3 February 1959)

St Paul Miki and the 26 Martyrs (6 February 1597)

Ascension of Queen Elizabeth II to the British throne (6th February 1945)

Japanese Foundation Day (11 Feb)

March

St Patrick's Day (17 March)

April

May

History of May Day (1 May)

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya

Patrick/ Pádraig Pearse (10th November 1879-3rd May 1916)

Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (12 May 1820) (International Nurses Day)

Norway Constitution Day (17 May)

Mount St Helens eruption (18 May 1980)

Manchester Arena Attack 2017 (22 May)

June

Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)

Windrush (22 June 1948)

July

American Independence (4 July 1776)

7/7 Bombings (7 July 2005)

The Fall of the Bastille (14 July 1789)

August

Swiss National Day (1 August)

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6 August 1945)

Indonesian Independence Day (17 August 1945)

Birth of Princess Margaret (21 Aug 1930)

Malayan Emergency (31 August 1957)

September

Invasion of Poland (1 Sept 1939)

The death of Queen Elizabeth II (8 Sept 2022)

The Sinking of the MS Estonia (28 September 1994)

October

Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (4 October)

Halloween (31 October)

November

Mexican Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) (2nd November)

December

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