Day Guide for Monday July 31st 2023 What are the holidays on July 31st 2023?

This is our day guide for Monday July 31st 2023 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?

Holidays on July 31st 2023

International: Ashoura (in lieu)

Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Mourning of Muharram.

Barbados: Caricom Day

Marks the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas on July 4th 1973

Belize: Emancipation Day (in lieu)

Marks the end of Slavery across the British Empire on August 1st 1834

Regional

Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (regional): Carnival Monday

The Saba Summer Festival runs for the last week of July

Regional

India (regional): Martyrdom Day of Shaheed Udham Singh

A revolutionary, best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer on March 13th 1940

Regional

Pakistan (regional): Public Holiday

A two-day public holiday has been declared in Islamabad due to foreign delegation visit.

Public sector only

Thailand: Special Holiday

Marks the day when the Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon in India over 2500 years ago

Vanuatu: Independence Day (in lieu)

Commemorates the end of British and French colonial rule on July 30th 1980.

July 30th 2023 | Go to Today | August 1st 2023

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General Information for July 31st 2023
There are 8 public holidays today.
Day 212 of 2023
153 days left in 2023
Week 31 of the year
On this Day in History
1972 - The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
1964 - Soft-voiced Country and Western singer Jim Reeves dies in an air crash ten miles south of Nashville, Tennessee.
1945 - Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.