Calendar of Festivals and Special Days 2007

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February Facts, Folklore, Sayings and Anniversaries

National Awareness Days

 

1

2 FullFull Moon
Candlemas
(Christian)

Day for Change

World Wetlands Day

Ground Hog Day (USA)

3
Tu B'shvat (Jewish)

4
Sri Lanka's National Day

Clown Service, London

Septuagesima Sunday (70 days before Easter)

5

6
Waitangi Day
New Zealand's National Day

Queen Elizabeth's Accession

7
Charles Dickens
born 1812

Grenada's National Day

8
Nirvana Day (Buddhist)
9 10
3rdLast Quarter

11
Japan's National Day

Sexagesima Sunday (60 days before Easter)

12
Kiss 4 Life Fortnight

Charles Darwin born (1809)

13

14
Valentine's Day

Gold Heart Day

National Nest Box week
(until 21st)

Brits Awards

15
Serbia's National Day

16
Lithuania's National Day

Maha Shivratri (Hindu)

King Tut's Burial Chamber opened in 1923

17 NewNew Moon

18
Nepal's National Day

Chinese New Year 4705
Year of the Pig

Chinese New Celebrations in London

Quinquagesima Sunday (50 days before Easter)

19
Presidents' Day (USA)
20
Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Day
21

Ash Wednesday

Start of Lent

International Mother Language Day
(Funky Facts Word.doc)

22
World Thinking Day

23
Brunei's National Day

National Doodle Day

24
IstFirst Quarter

25
Kuwait's National Day

First Sunday in Lent

Quadragesima
(40 days until Easter)

26
Student Volunteering Week

Fair Trade Fortnight

27 28
National Science Day
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Clown Service, London
Each year, on the first Sunday in February, clowns gather for a church service in East London in memory of the British clown Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837). The church service, starting at 3pm, is at Holy Trinity Church in Dalston.
Find out more here

Queen's Accession - 6 February
Queen Elizabeth came to the throne (aged 25) on 6 February 1952, the date when her father King George the Sixth died. To mark this event, cannons are be fired in various locations around London and Windsor:

  • A 41-gun salute at 12 noon fired by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Hyde Park, London
  • A 62-gun salute at 1pm fired by the Honourable Artillery Company at the Tower of London
  • A 21-gun salute at 12 noon at The Long Walk in the grounds of Windsor Castle, Windsor

Find out about gun salutes
Fnd out about the Queen

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