Aban · Apo 1405

October 23 – November 21, 2026

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Events this month

  • Marnow fast (the three days of Khawankar) · Marnow · 2–4 Aban · Apo

    Yarsan · Cultural

    The Yarsan's three-day fast before the Feast of Khawankar, from the twelfth day of the lunar month that falls between 30 Mehr and 30 Aban; Dadvah counts the moon from the crescent, so in some years the day can differ by one from the day the Yarsan announce.

  • Pavarana (end of the Rains Retreat) · Pavarana · 3 Aban · Apo

    Buddhist · Cultural

    The end of the three-month rains retreat, on the full moon of Ashvin (Sri Lanka's Vap Poya, Thailand's Wan Ok Phansa); Thailand sometimes keeps it a month later.

  • Feast of Khawankar · Khawankar · 4 Aban · Apo

    Yarsan · Cultural

    The chief feast of the Yarsan, from the evening of the third day of the Marnow fast; its date is counted from the crescent and can differ by one day from the one the Yarsan announce.

  • Cyrus the Great Day · Ruz-e Kurosh-e Bozorg · 7 Aban · Apo

    Iranian · Cultural

    Remembers Cyrus the Great's entry into Babylon in 539 BCE, recorded on the Cyrus Cylinder. Unofficial, and widely kept.

  • Lhabab Düchen · Lhabab Duchen · 10 Aban · Apo

    Buddhist · Cultural

    The Buddha's return to earth from the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, where he had taught his mother, on the 22nd day of the 9th Tibetan month.

  • Bandi Chhor Divas · 17 Aban · Apo

    Sikh · Cultural

    The 'day of release', for Guru Hargobind's release from the Mughal fort of Gwalior, on the new moon of Kattak: Diwali's night, sometimes a day later.

  • Birth of the Báb · 19 Aban · Apo

    Bahá’í · Cultural

    Born in Shiraz in 1819; the first of the Twin Holy Days, after the eighth new moon following Naw-Rúz.

  • Birth of Bahá'u'lláh · 20 Aban · Apo

    Bahá’í · Cultural

    Born in Tehran in 1817; the second of the Twin Holy Days.

  • Gurgaddi of the Guru Granth Sahib · Gurgaddi Divas Guru Granth Sahib · 20 Aban · Apo

    Sikh · Cultural

    The day in 1708 when Guru Gobind Singh made the scripture the eternal Guru of the Sikhs, ending the line of human Gurus.

  • Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) · 20 Aban · Apo

    National · National holiday

    The Commonwealth day for the war dead, on the anniversary of the armistice of 11 November 1918.

  • Veterans Day · 20 Aban · Apo

    National · National holiday

    The US day honouring military veterans, on the anniversary of the 1918 armistice.

  • Bloody Aban · 24 Aban · Apo

    Iranian · Historical

    Protests over a fuel-price rise were crushed with live fire and an internet shutdown; hundreds were killed (from 24 Aban 1398; 15 November 2019).

  • Battle of al-Qadisiyyah · Nabard-e Qadesiyeh · 25 Aban · Apo

    Iranian · Historical

    The Arab army defeated the Sasanian forces under Rostam Farrokhzad, opening the conquest of Iran (16–19 November 636; some sources: 637).

  • Sattar Khan and Baqer Khan · 25 Aban · Apo

    Azerbaijani · Historical

    Sattar Khan, the "national commander" who held Tabriz for the Constitution in 1908–09 beside Baqer Khan, died on 25 Aban 1293 (November 1914).

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