Amordad · Ameretat 1407

July 22 – August 21, 2028

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Events this month

  • Nusardel · 2 Amordad · Ameretat

    Assyrian · Cultural

    The Assyrian feast seven weeks after Pentecost, with the commemoration of the Twelve Apostles, known for its water-splashing.

  • Chökhor Düchen · Chokhor Duchen · 4 Amordad · Ameretat

    Buddhist · Cultural

    The Buddha's first teaching, the Four Noble Truths at Sarnath, on the 4th day of the 6th Tibetan 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).

  • Tisha B'Av · 11 Amordad · Ameretat

    Jewish · Cultural

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

  • 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.

  • Assumption of the Holy Mother of God (Blessing of the Grapes) · Verapokhum Surb Astvatsatsni · 23 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.

  • Krishna Janmashtami · Janmashtami · 23 Amordad · Ameretat

    Hindu · Cultural

    Krishna's birth at midnight, on the eighth day of the waning moon of Bhadrapada (Shravana in the southern reckoning), in August or September; this is the Vaishnava date, and Smarta households may keep it a day earlier.

  • Parsi New Year (Navroz, Shahenshahi) · Navroz · 24 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.

  • 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.

  • 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) · 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.

  • First Installation of the Guru Granth Sahib · Pehla Prakash Purab Guru Granth Sahib · 31 Amordad · Ameretat

    Sikh · Cultural

    The day in 1604 when Guru Arjan first installed the Sikh scripture in the Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple.

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