Below are some of the most important UK flag flying dates for your diary:

19^th February – Birthday of the Duke of York

1^st March – St David’s Day (in Wales only)

10^th March – Birthday of the Earl of Wessex

12^th March – Commonwealth Day (Second Monday in March)

17^th March – St Patrick’s Day (in Northern Ireland only)

21^st April – Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen

23^rd April – St George’s Day (in England only)

9^th May – Europe Day

2^nd June – Coronation Day

9^th June – Official celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday

10^th June – Birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh

21^st June – Birthday of the Duke of Cambridge

17^th July – Birthday of the Duchess of Cornwall

15^th August – Birthday of the Princess Royal

11^th November – Remembrance Day (second Sunday in November)

14^th November – Birthday of Prince of Wales

20^th November – Her Majesty’s Wedding Day

30^th November – St Andrew’s Day (in Scotland only)

Other dates for the calendar:

 

February

3^rd 6 Nations Rugby begins

13^th Mardi Gras

14^th Valentines Day

16^th Chinese New Year (Dog)

23^rd Shropshire Day

 

March

1^st St David’s Day

5^th St Piran’s Day

8^th East Anglia Day

13^th Commonwealth Day

17^th 6 Nations Rugby ends

17^th St Patrick’s Day

20^th County Durham Day

25^th Greek Independence Day

29^th Yorkshire West Riding Day

 

April

1^st Easter Sunday, 100^th Anniversary RAF

4^th Commonwealth Games begins

13^th Sikh Vaisakhi

15^th Commonwealth Games ends

16^th Orkney Day

21^st Queen’s Birthday

23^rd St George’s Day

25^th Huntingdonshire Day

 

May

1^st Staffordshire Day

8^th VE Day World War 2

11^th Somerset Day

12^th Eurovision Song Contest (Lisbon)

14^th 70^th Anniversary Israeli Independence

16^th Middlesex Day

25^th Wessex Day

26^th Kent Day

30^th Norfolk Day

 

June

1^st Dorset Day, Pembrokeshire Day

4^th Devon Day

5^th Wiltshire Day

14^th World Cup 2018 Russia begins

16^th Sussex Day

21^st Shetland Day Suffolk Day

22^nd Mercia Day (regional)

25^th 40^th Anniversary of the Rainbow flag first flown

30^th National Armed Forces Day

 

July

1^st Canada Day

4^th USA Independence Day

14^th Bastille Day, Black Country Day

15^th Russia 2018 World Cup Final

23^rd Historic Counties Flag Day

29^th Buckinghamshire Day

 

August

1^st Yorkshire Day

2^nd Glasgow International Athletics begins

3^rd Cowes Week begins

5^th Northumberland Day

15^th VJ Day

18^th Glasgow International Athletics ends

22^nd Yorkshire North Riding Day

24^th Yorkshire East Riding Day

31^st Northumbria Day

 

September

3^rd Merchant Navy Day

6^th 50 years Swaziland Independence

10^th Gibraltar Day

13^th Rutland Day

16^th Owain Glyndwr Day, Mexican Independence Day

22^nd Derbyshire Day

23^rd Bi Pride Day

24^th Cumberland Day

25^th Monmouthshire Day

26^th European Language Day

29^th Westmorland Day

 

October

1^st Lincolnshire Day

12^th 50 Years Equatorial Guinea Independence

19^th Oxfordshire Day, United Nations Day

26^th Essex Day

31^st Halloween

 

November

11^th Remembrance Sunday

20^th St Edmund’s Day

22^nd USA Thanksgiving

27^th Lancashire Day

28^th Caernarfonshire Day

Bedfordshire Day

30^th St Andrews Day

 

December

25^th Christmas Day

31^st New Year’s Eve