Flag Days of August

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See also:

• Flag Days of the World (main page)

1

• Benin - Independence Day, 1960
• Colorado, USA - Colorado Day
• Emancipation Day - Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands
• Poland - National Warsaw-Uprising Remembrance Day
• Switzerland - National Day

2

• Macedonia - Anniversary of Uprising, 1903

3

• Niger - Independence Day, 1960

4

• Burkina Faso - Independence Day, 1983
• Cook Islands - Independence Day

5

• - August Monday (varies)
  • Dominica
  • Fiji
  • Ireland
  • St. Kitts and Nevis
• Bahamas - Emancipation Day (varies)
• Burkina Faso - Independence Day
• Croatia - Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Croatian Defenders Day (1995)
• Grenada - Emancipation Day (varies)
• Guyana - Freedom Day (varies)
• Iceland - Shop and Office Worker's Holiday (varies)
• Japan
  by António Martins
  - Flag Day, 1854
• Northumberland, England - St. Oswald's Day
• Trinidad and Tobago - Discovery Day, 1498
• Turks and Caicos - Emancipation Day (varies)
• Zambia - Farmer's Day (varies)

6

• Bolivia - Independence Day, 1825
• Jamaica - Independence Day, 1962

7

• Colombia - Battle of Boyaca, 1819
• Cote d'Ivoire - Independence Day, 1960
• USA - Purple Heart Day

8

• Bhutan - Independence Day
• Sweden - Queen Silvia's Name Day

9

• Finland - Tove Jansson and Finnish art (a recommended flag day)
• Gabon
  by Željko Heimer
  - Flag Day, 1960
• Singapore - Independence Day, 1965
• South Africa - National Women's Day

10

• Ecuador - Independence Day, 1830
• Missouri, USA - Admission Day, 1821

11

• Chad - Independence Day, 1960
• Zimbabwe - Heroes Day

12

• Cameroon - Djoulde Soumae

13

• Central African Republic - Independence Day, 1960

14

• Morocco - Allegiance Day, Oued Ed-Dahab
• Pakistan - Independence Day, 1947

15

• Acadia, Canada - Feast of the Assumption
• Afghanistan - National Holiday
• Bahrain - Independence Day
• Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) - Independence Day, 1960
• Croatia - Assumption of Mary Day
• India - Independence Day, 1947
• Liechtenstein - Independence Day
• The Netherlands - Formal End of the War, 1945
• Poland - Armed Forces Day
• Sami
  by Jan Oskar Engene
  - Flag Adoption Day, 1986
• South Korea - Liberation Day, 1948
• United Kingdom - Princess Anne, Princess Royal's Birthday, 1950
• Vatican - Assumption

16

• Dominican Republic - National Restoration Day, 1963
• Liechtenstein - Franz Josef II's Birthday, 1906

17

• Argentina - Anniversary of General José de San Martin's Death, 1850
• Gabon - Independence Day, 1960
• Indonesia - Independence Day, 1945
• USA - Universal African Flag Day

18

• Sami - Establishment of the Sameråd

19

• Norway - Crown Princess Mette-Marit's Birthday
• USA - National Aviation Day

20

• Estonia - Independence Day, 1991
• Flag Society, Australia - Founding Day, 1983
• Hungary - St. Stephen's Day and Constitution Day, 1949

21

• Hawaii, USA - Admission Day, 1959
• Latvia - Passing of the Constitution
• Scania, Sweden - Unification Day

22

• Russia
  by António Martins
  - Day of the Russian Federation State Flag, 1991

23

• Laos - Liberation Day, 1975
• Romania - Liberation Day, 1944
• Ukraine - Day of the National Flag, 1990
  by BlinxCat

24

• Ukraine - Independence Day, 1991

25

• Paraguay - Constitution Day, 1967
• Sami - Establishment of the Sameting in Sweden
• Uruguay - Independence Day, 1828

26

• Namibia - Namibia Day

27

• Finland - Finland’s Nature Day (a recommended flag day)
• Liberia
  by Željko Heimer
  - Flag Day, 1847
• Moldova - Independence Day, 1991

28

• Denmark - Prince Nikolai, 1999

29

• Slovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day, 1968
• Spain
  by Antonio Gutiérrez, taken with permission from the S.E.V. website
  - Flag Day, 1936

30

• Peru - St. Rose of Lima Day
• Turkey - Victory Day, 1922

31

• Kyrgyzstan - Independence Day, 1991
• Malaysia - Independence Day, 1957
• Northumbria, England - St. Aidan's Day
• Trinidad and Tobago - Independence Day, 1962