Amordad · Ameretat 1400
July 23 – August 22, 2021
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| 2 24 | 3 25 | 4 26 | 5 27 | 6 28 | 7 29 | 8 30 |
| 9 31 | 10 1 Aug | 11 2 | 12 3 | 13 4 | 14 5 | 15 6 |
| 16 7 | 17 8 | 18 9 | 19 10 | 20 11 | 21 12 | 22 13 |
| 23 14 | 24 15 | 25 16 | 26 17 | 27 18 | 28 19 | 29 20 |
| 30 21 | 31 22 |
Events this month
- Asalha Puja (Dhamma Day) · Asalha Puja · 2 Amordad · Ameretat
Buddhist · Cultural
The Buddha's first sermon at Sarnath, on the full moon of Asalha (Sri Lanka's Esala Poya), the eve of the rains retreat.
- Nowruz-e Sayyad (Fishermen's New Year) · Nowruz-e Sayyad · 9 Amordad · Ameretat
Persian Gulf · Ancient festival
The new year of the seafaring calendar of Iran's Persian Gulf coast, the sea's first calm day after the storm season: no boat puts out and no one eats fish (some sources: 1 Mordad).
- Remembrance of the Yazidi genocide (Sinjar, 2014) · 12 Amordad · Ameretat
Yezidi · Historical
On 3 August 2014 the Islamic State attacked Sinjar and began its genocide of the Yazidis; the Kurdistan Region and Iraq mark the day every year.
- Constitutional Revolution · Enqelab-e Mashruteh · 14 Amordad · Ameretat
Iranian · Historical
The royal decree of 14 Mordad 1285 (6 August 1906; signed the day before) that gave Iran its first constitution and parliament.
- Assumption of the Holy Mother of God (Blessing of the Grapes) · Verapokhum Surb Astvatsatsni · 24 Amordad · Ameretat
Armenian · Cultural
The fourth of the Armenian Church's five great feasts, on the Sunday nearest 15 August, with the blessing of the first grapes.
- Commemoration of St Mary (Assyrian) · Doukhrana d-Mart Maryam · 24 Amordad · Ameretat
Assyrian · Cultural
The Assyrian Church of the East's commemoration of the Virgin Mary on 15 August, which closes the 15-day Rogation of Mary.
- Parsi New Year (Navroz, Shahenshahi) · Navroz · 25 Amordad · Ameretat
Zoroastrian · Cultural
The New Year of the Parsis of India on the Shahenshahi calendar, which has no leap day, so it has drifted from the spring equinox to mid-August and comes a day earlier every four years.
- Coup of 1953 · Kudeta-ye Bist-o-Hasht-e Mordad · 28 Amordad · Ameretat
Iranian · Historical
A coup backed by the CIA and Britain overthrew Prime Minister Mosaddegh (28 Mordad 1332; 19 August 1953).
- Khomeini's jihad decree against Kurdistan · 28 Amordad · Ameretat
Kurdish · Historical
On 17–19 August 1979 (28 Mordad 1358) Khomeini sent the army, gendarmerie and Revolutionary Guards against Kurdistan; summary executions followed, and some 10,000 Kurds were killed in the campaign.
- Transfiguration (Orthodox) · 28 Amordad · Ameretat
Christian · Cultural
Christ shown in glory on the mountain, on 6 August of the Julian calendar; one of the Twelve Great Feasts.
- Ullambana (Ghost Festival) · Yulanpen · 31 Amordad · Ameretat
Buddhist · Cultural
Offerings for the dead on the 15th of the 7th Chinese lunar month, from the story of the Buddha's disciple Maudgalyayana (Mulian), who saved his mother from among the hungry ghosts.
Other events
- Ahmad Shamlu · 1 Amordad · Ameretat
- Feast of the Great Shishlam · 1 Amordad · Ameretat
- First night of the Kurdish autumn (Pir Musi's enthronement) · 1 Amordad · Ameretat
- Guru Purnima · 2 Amordad · Ameretat
- Tabari New Year · Fardineh Ma Shu · 2 Amordad · Ameretat
- Tu B'Av · 2 Amordad · Ameretat
- Amordadgan · Jashn-e Amordadgan · 3 Amordad · Ameretat
- Start of the Rains Retreat (Vassa) · Vassa · 3 Amordad · Ameretat
- Guanyin's Enlightenment · Guanyin · 6 Amordad · Ameretat
- St Vladimir's Day · 6 Amordad · Ameretat
- Sohrevardi Day · Ruz-e Sohrevardi · 8 Amordad · Ameretat
- Barzani genocide · 9 Amordad · Ameretat
- Nineteen Day Feast · 9 Amordad · Ameretat
- Dormition Fast (new calendar) · 10–23 Amordad · Ameretat
- Rogation of Mary (Fast of Mary) · Baouta d-Mart Maryam · 10–24 Amordad · Ameretat
- Feast of the Summer Forty Days · Cejna Çilê Havînê · 11 Amordad · Ameretat
- Guru Har Krishan Gurpurab · Prakash Purab Guru Har Krishan · 12 Amordad · Ameretat
- Muktad (Parsi Farvardigan) · Muktad · 15–24 Amordad · Ameretat
- Transfiguration · Eyd-e Tabdil-e Hey'at-e Masih · 15 Amordad · Ameretat
- Assyrian Martyrs Day · Ruz-e Shahidan-e Ashuri · 16 Amordad · Ameretat
- Nowruzbal · 16 Amordad · Ameretat
- Rosh Chodesh · 17–18 Amordad · Ameretat
- Hariyali Teej · 20 Amordad · Ameretat
- Mirzakhani's Fields Medal · Maryam Mirzakhani · 22 Amordad · Ameretat
- Nag Panchami · 22 Amordad · Ameretat
- Dormition Fast · 23–31 Amordad · Ameretat
- Assumption of Mary · 24 Amordad · Ameretat
- Obon · 24 Amordad · Ameretat
- Pateti · 24 Amordad · Ameretat
- Merelots: Remembrance of the Dead after the Assumption · Merelots · 25 Amordad · Ameretat
- Nineteen Day Feast · 28 Amordad · Ameretat
- Cinema Rex Fire · Sinema Reks · 28 Amordad · Ameretat
- Commemoration of Mar Shimun bar Sabbae · 29 Amordad · Ameretat
- Varalakshmi Vrat · Varalakshmi Vratam · 29 Amordad · Ameretat
- Khordad Sal (Parsi, Shahenshahi) · Khordad Sal · 30 Amordad · Ameretat
- Onam · Onam, Thiruvonam · 30 Amordad · Ameretat
- Shahrivargan · Jashn-e Shahrivargan · 30 Amordad · Ameretat
- Raksha Bandhan · 31 Amordad · Ameretat