October 1

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on October 1.

See also:  October,  Today in History,  movable October holidays,  possible October holidays

     spotlight on:  

•  Agricultural Fair Day
•  Christmas Seal Campaign begins
•  Grey Day
•  Fides (Old Roman Goddess of Faithfulness)
•  Flattering Finals (Fairy)
•  Flu and Pneumonia Campaign begins
•  International Day of Older Persons (UN)
•  Kalends of October
•  Magic Circles Day
•  Pudding Season begins - meat puddings, as autumn was the time to kill meat for winter
  •  hedgehog recipe
•  US Fiscal Year begins??
•  World Vegetarian Day

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - October 01
•  Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux (patron of florists, foreign missions, France, pilots; against tuberculosis)

anniversaries

directories

October holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

•  Cameroon Unification Day
•  Nigeria Independence Day

Asia

•  Independence Day - in China
•  Armed Forces Day - in Korea

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

•  Tuvalu National Holiday

Europe

•  Cyprus Independence Day
•  Hungary Independence Day
•  Day of the Caudillo - in Spain

North America

Caribbean

Central America

South America

•  Feast of Penha begins - through October 31 - in Brazil

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 274, with 91 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Monday
•  2002 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2003 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2004 A. D.:  Friday
•  2005 A. D.:  Saturday

•  2006 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2007 A. D.:  Monday
•  2008 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2009 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2010 A. D.:  Friday
•  2011 A. D.:  Saturday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Autumn
•  Southern hemisphere:  Spring

zodiac

•  Libra

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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008