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October time of the month
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the sixth month to have the length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name (from the Latin octō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans. In Ancient Rome, one of three Mundus patet would take place on October 5, Meditrinalia October 11, Augustalia on October 12, October Horse on October 15, and Armilustrium on October 19. These dates do not correspond to the modern Gregorian calendar. Among the Anglo-Saxons, it was known as Winterfylleth, because at this full moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin.
October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern hemisphere and spring in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to April in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
October observances
This list does not necessarily imply either official status or general observance.
Non-Gregorian observances, 2017
(please note that all Jewish observances, which are set by the Hebrew calendar, begin at sunset the day prior to the date listed and end on the sunset of the date in question)
October 19: Amavasya (Hinduism)
Month-long observances
In Catholic tradition, October is the Month of the Holy Rosary.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
International Walk to School Month
Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
United Kingdom
Black History Month
United States
The last two to three weeks in October (and, occasionally, the first week of November) are the only time of the year during which each of the "Big Four" major North American professional sports leagues schedule games; the National Basketball Association begins its preseason and about two weeks later starts the regular season, the National Hockey League is about one month into its regular season, the National Football League is about halfway through its regular season, and Major League Baseball is in its postseason with the League Championship Series and World Series. (Additionally, the Canadian Football League is typically nearing the end of its regular season during this period, while Major League Soccer is beginning the MLS Cup Playoffs.)
National Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
National Arts & Humanities Month
National Bullying Prevention Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Filipino American History Month
Italian American Heritage Month
LGBT History Month
Polish American Heritage Month
National Work and Family Month
United States, Health-related
American Pharmacist Month
Dwarfism/Little People Awareness Month
Eczema Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Down Syndrome Awareness Month
National Healthy Lung Month
National Infertility Awareness Month
Liver Awareness Month
National Lupus Erythematosus Awareness Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month (United States)
United States, Culinary
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Poppin’ Month
National Pork Month
Movable observances
Oktoberfest celebrations (varies globally based on area)
October 5: International Walk to School Day
October 5: World Cerebral Palsy Day
October 7: Lee National Denim Day (United States)
October 8: Astronomy Day (United States)
October 11: Ada Lovelace Day (International observance)
October 19–25: Asexual Awareness Week
October 20: Get Smart About Credit Day (United States)
October 20: Spirit Day (International observance)
Last Week of September: September 25-Oct 1
Banned Books Week
First Full Week of October: October 2–8
Customer Service Week (Kenya, United States)
Mental Illness Awareness Week (United States)
First Sunday: October 2
Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (Pentecostal Christianity)
Father's Day (Luxembourg)
Teachers' Day (Belarus, Latvia)
World Communion Sunday (Christianity)
First Monday: October 3
Child Health Day (United States)
Children's Day (Chile, Singapore)
Labour Day (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Australia)
Territory Day (Christmas Island, Australia)
Thanksgiving (Saint Lucia)
World Architecture Day
World Habitat Day
First Tuesday: October 4
National Night Out (Florida, Texas, United States)
First Wednesday: October 5
Children's Day (Chile)..
Wednesday of second full week in October: October 5
National Fossil Day (United States)
First Thursday: October 6
National Poetry Day (UK, Ireland)
First Friday: October 7
Children's Day (Singapore)
Plaidurday (United States)
World Smile Day
Second Saturday: October 8
International Migratory Bird Day (Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean)
Home Movie Day (International observance)
National Tree Planting Day (Mongolia)
Second Sunday: October 9
National Grandparents Day (Germany)
White Sunday (Tonga and Samoa)
Week of October 9: October 9–15
Fire Prevention Week (Canada, United States)
Fire Service Recognition Day (Canada), last day of Fire Prevention Week
Week of October 10: October 9–15
Fiji Week (Fiji)
Second Monday: October 10
Columbus Day (United States)
Indigenous Peoples' Day (Parts of the United States)
Native American Day (South Dakota, United States)
Fraternal Day (Alabama, United States)
Health and Sports Day (Japan)
Mother's Day (Malawi)
Norfolk Island Agricultural Show Day (Norfolk Island)
Thanksgiving (Canada)
Second Wednesday: October 12
Policy Statement of Belgian Parliament
Second Thursday in October: October 13
World Chicken Day
World Sight Day
Second Friday: October 14
Arbor Day (Namibia)
World Egg Day
Third Saturday: October 15
Sweetest Day (United States)
Work day closest to October 16: October 17
Boss's Day (United States, Canada, Lithuania and Romania)
Teacher's Day (Australia) (If the last Friday is on October 31, this holiday is moved to November 7)
Last Monday: October 31
October Holiday (Ireland)
Fixed observances
October 1
Armed Forces Day (South Korea)
Children's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Sri Lanka)
Day of Prosecutors (Azerbaijan)
Continuance of German American Heritage Month, which runs from September 15-October 15
Continuance of National Hispanic Heritage Month (United States), which runs from September 15-October 15
Independence Day (Cyprus)
Independence Day (Nigeria), celebrates the independence of Nigeria from United Kingdom in 1960.
Independence Day (Palau, Tuvalu)
International Day of Older Persons
Lincolnshire Day (United Kingdom)
National Day of the People's Republic of China (People's Republic of China)
Pancasila Sanctity Day (Indonesia)
Teacher's Day (Uzbekistan)
Unification Day (Cameroon)
World Vegetarian Day
October 2
Batik Day (Indonesia)
Feast of the Guardian Angels
National Grandparents Day (Italy)
Gandhi Jayanthi
International Day of Non-Violence
World Day for Farmed Animals
Independence Day (Guinea)
October 3
Gaecheonjeol (South Korea)
German Unity Day (Germany)
National Day (Iraq)
Soldiers' Day (Honduras)
October 4
Cinnamon Roll Day (Sweden)
Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
Independence Day (Lesotho)
World Animal Day
The beginning of World Space Week (October 4–10)
October 5
Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
Engineer's Day (Bolivia)
International Day of No Prostitution
Republic Day (Portugal)
Teachers' Day (Pakistan)
Teachers' Day (Russia)
World Teachers' Day
October 6
Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)
Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)
German-American Day (United States)
Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary)
Teachers' Day (Sri Lanka)
Yom Kippur War commemorations:
Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria)
October 7
Nagasaki Kunchi (Nagasaki, Japan, October 7–9)
Teacher's Day (Laos)
October 8
Air Force Day (India)
Arbor Day (Namibia)
Children's Day (Iran)
National Independence Day (Croatia)
Navy Day (Peru)
October 9
Hangul Day (South Korea)
Independence Day (Uganda)
Independence of Guayaquil (Ecuador)
Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway)
National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania)
Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama, Japan)
World Post Day
Valencian Community Day (Spain)
October 10
Arbor Day (Poland)
Capital Liberation Day (Vietnam)
Double Ten Day Taiwan)
Fiji Day (Fiji)
Finnish Literature Day (Finland)
Independence Day (Cuba)
Party Foundation Day (North Korea)
World Mental Health Day
October 11
General Pulaski Memorial Day (United States)
International Day of the Girl Child (International)
National Coming Out Day (multinational, including United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland among others)
Old Michaelmas Day (Celtic)
Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)
October 12
Freethought Day
October 13
October 14
World Standards Day
October 15
Breast Health Day (Europe)
Evacuation Day (Tunisia)
Global Handwashing Day
King Father's Commemoration Day (Cambodia)
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (United States and Canada)
Spirit Day (International observance)
Teachers' Day (Brazil)
White Cane Safety Day (United States)
October 16
World Food Day
October 17
October 18
Alaska Day (Alaska, United States)
Independence Day (Azerbaijan)
Necktie Day (Croatia)
Persons Day (Canada)
World Menopause Day
October 19
Constitution Day (Niue)
Mother Teresa Day (Albania)
October 20
Arbor Day (Czech Republic)
Heroes' Day (Kenya)
Revolution Day (Guatemala)
Vietnamese Women's Day (Vietnam)
World Osteoporosis Day
World Statistics Day
October 21
Apple Day (United Kingdom)
Armed Forces Day (Honduras)
Egyptian Naval Day (Egypt)
Indian Police Commemoration Day (India)
International Day of the Nacho
National Nurses' Day (Thailand)
Ndadaye Day (Burundi)
Overseas Chinese Day (Republic of China)
Trafalgar Day (the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th century)
October 22
Fechner Day (International observance)
International Caps Lock Day
International Stuttering Awareness Day
Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan)
Wombat Day (Australia)
October 23
Aviator's Day (Brazil)
Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)
Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle (Republic of Macedonia)
Liberation Day (Libya)
Mole Day (International observance)
National Day (Hungary)
Paris Peace Agreement Day (Cambodia)
October 24
Azad Kashmir Day (Pakistan)
Day of Special Forces of the Armed Forces (Russia)
Food Day (United States)
Independence Day (Zambia)
Suez Day (Egypt)
United Nations Day (International observance)
World Development Information Day
World Polio Day
October 25
Armed Forces Day (Romania)
Constitution Day (Lithuania)
Customs Officer's Day (Russia)
Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country)
Retrocession Day (Taiwan)
Sovereignty Day (Slovenia)
Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)
The Hallowing of Nestorius (Eastern Orthodox Christianity)
October 26
Intersex Awareness Day (United States)
October 27
Black Cat Appreciation Day (United Kingdom)
Černová Tragedy Day (Slovakia)
Flag Day (Greece)
Independence Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Independence Day (Turkmenistan)
Navy Day (United States) (unofficial, official date is October 13)
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
October 28
Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
International Animation Day
Ohi Day (Greece, Cyprus)
Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
Youth Pledge Day (Indonesia)
October 29
Coronation Day (Cambodia)
Cyrus the Great Day (Iran)
National Cat Day (United States)
Republic Day (Turkey)
World Stroke Day
October 30
Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
Indonesian Banknote Day (Indonesia)
International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
Mischief Night (United States and Canada)
Beggars Night (certain regions of the United States)
Devil's Night (Michigan, United States)
Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community, India)
October 31
Día de la Canción Criolla (Peru)
Eve of Winter, the eve of the first day of winter in the Northern hemisphere:
Allantide (Cornwall, United Kingdom)
The first day of the Day of the Dead, celebrated until November 2 (Mexico)
Halloween (English-speaking countries, also in other locations)
Hop-tu-Naa (Isle of Man, United Kingdom)
Samhain in the Northern Hemisphere, Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere; begins on sunset of October 31 (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
Girl Scouts Founders Day (United States)
King Father's Birthday (Cambodia)
National Unity Day (India)
Reformation Day (Slovenia, parts of Germany, Chile, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Evangelical Churches and Lutheran Churches)
Saci day (Brazil)
World Savings Day
Miscellaneous
Eric Whitacre composed a piece based on this month, titled October.
Neil Gaiman wrote a story personifying the month, titled "October in the Chair", for his 2006 collection Fragile Things.
Ray Bradbury published a collection of short stories titled The October Country in 1955.
October symbols
October's birthstones are the tourmaline and opal.
Its birth flower is the calendula.
The zodiac signs for this month are Libra (until October 22) and Scorpio (from October 23).
