Amordad · Ameretat 1403

July 22 – August 21, 2024

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Events this month

  • 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) · 13 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.

  • Tisha B'Av · 23 Amordad · Ameretat

    Jewish · Cultural

    The fast for the destruction of the Temples. Begins at sunset the evening before.

  • Commemoration of St Mary (Assyrian) · Doukhrana d-Mart Maryam · 25 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.

  • Assumption of the Holy Mother of God (Blessing of the Grapes) · Verapokhum Surb Astvatsatsni · 28 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.

  • 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.

  • Ullambana (Ghost Festival) · Yulanpen · 28 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.

  • Transfiguration (Orthodox) · 29 Amordad · Ameretat

    Christian · Cultural

    Christ shown in glory on the mountain, on 6 August of the Julian calendar; one of the Twelve Great Feasts.

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