Category: United Kingdom and Ireland

Anger Awareness Week, Ntl. (UK): December...

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Turner Prize Awarded (UK): December 1

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Awarded to artist working primarily in Britain or British citizens globally, the Turner Prize honors the best artistic creations of the past year. This event first ran in 1984.

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Walter Plinge Day (UK): December 2

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Walter Plinge, George Spelvin, David Agnew and Alan Smithee, what do all these people have in common? They are all theater names, or pseudonyms, for uncast parts or when an actor wishes to hide his identi...

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Black Pound Day (UK): December 4

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Born in 2020 in the wake of the Black Lives Matter global protest, Black Pound Day in the United Kingdom is a monthly event occurring on the first Saturday of each month (except the first day, which was h...

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Dickensian Christmas Festival, Kent (UK):...

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Step into Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' and live the experience as in Victorian, England. Each year the city of Rochester in Kent, the United Kingdom, rolls out the red carpet, plumb pudding and Ch...

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Christmas Bird Count (US/UK/CA): December...

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Underdog Day, Ntl. (US/UK): December 17

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Shorts Day: December 21

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Created in 1986, Shorts Day is a day to flaunt the first day of winter on the solstice by wearing shorts to honor the shortest day of the year. Just be sure to wear a coat, if you go outside! Have fun.

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King's College Christmas Carols & Festival...

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Held annually at Cambridge's Kings College in England, the Kings College Christmas Carols & Festival of Nine Lessons has been a Christmas Eve tradition since 1918 and a live broadcast since 1928. Each yea...

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Boxing Day (UK/AU/ZA/CA): December 26

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Boxing Day in the Commonwealth countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Canada and South Africa is a day of thanks and sharing. Beginning during the Victorian era, the day after Chris...

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Mummer's Day (C)(IE): December 26

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Apple Tree Day (US/UK): January 6

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Apple Tree Day is a British folk custom as ancient as Christmas and part of the celebration of epiphany. Of distinction is the practice of wassailing, or apple howling. Wassail is a traditional word indi...

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Argyle Day: January 8

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Created in 2009, Argyle Day attempts to brighten up the winter by encouraging everyone to wear something argyle on this day. Argyle is the pattern used by the Campbell Clan, which originated in Argyll in...

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Baby Making Day (UK) Ntl.: January 2

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What is the most popular birthday in the United Kingdom? September 26. What does that mean? More Brits make babies 38-weeks earlier on January 2 (between 10PM and 11:00PM GMT, with 10:36PM being the m...

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Brexit Take 4: January 31

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Brexit Take IV? Yup! We thought this would be gone too, but the mess commonly known as Brexit is projected to continue into 2020 as deadline after deadline gets pushed back and Prime Ministers step down....

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Bug Busting Day, Ntl. (UK): January 31

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National Bug Busting Day occur three times per year in the United Kingdom: January, June and October. It is a concentrated effort to stem the tide of lice infections within schools and the general populat...

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Burns Night Supper (UK) (1759): January 25

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Burns Night Supper is celebrated every year on January 25 by Scotland and poetry lovers worldwide. On this night people honor the birth, the life and the art of Robert Burns who is considered one of gre...

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Celtic Connections (UK): January 16 - Febr...

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Over 2000 artists, 30 events and 20 venues, Celtic Connections is the largest music festival in the United Kingdom each winter. It features a variety of music genres from Indie and Fusion to Rock, Gaelic...

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Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (UK): Janu...

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Every day two women lose their life to Cervical Cancer and nine are diagnosed with it in the United Kingdom. Yet 75% of instances can be prevented with an annual pap smear and taking the HPV vaccination i...

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