Below are some of the most important UK flag flying dates for your diary:
19th February – Birthday of the Duke of York
1st March – St David’s Day (in Wales only)
10th March – Birthday of the Earl of Wessex
12th March – Commonwealth Day (Second Monday in March)
17th March – St Patrick’s Day (in Northern Ireland only)
21st April – Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen
23rd April – St George’s Day (in England only)
9th May – Europe Day
2nd June – Coronation Day
9th June – Official celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday
10th June – Birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh
21st June – Birthday of the Duke of Cambridge
17th July – Birthday of the Duchess of Cornwall
15th August – Birthday of the Princess Royal
11th November – Remembrance Day (second Sunday in November)
14th November – Birthday of Prince of Wales
20th November – Her Majesty’s Wedding Day
30th November – St Andrew’s Day (in Scotland only)
Other dates for the calendar:
February
3rd 6 Nations Rugby begins
13th Mardi Gras
14th Valentines Day
16th Chinese New Year (Dog)
23rd Shropshire Day
March
1st St David’s Day
5th St Piran’s Day
8th East Anglia Day
13th Commonwealth Day
17th 6 Nations Rugby ends
17th St Patrick’s Day
20th County Durham Day
25th Greek Independence Day
29th Yorkshire West Riding Day
April
1st Easter Sunday, 100th Anniversary RAF
4th Commonwealth Games begins
13th Sikh Vaisakhi
15th Commonwealth Games ends
16th Orkney Day
21st Queen’s Birthday
23rd St George’s Day
25th Huntingdonshire Day
May
1st Staffordshire Day
8th VE Day World War 2
11th Somerset Day
12th Eurovision Song Contest (Lisbon)
14th 70th Anniversary Israeli Independence
16th Middlesex Day
25th Wessex Day
26th Kent Day
30th Norfolk Day
June
1st Dorset Day, Pembrokeshire Day
4th Devon Day
5th Wiltshire Day
14th World Cup 2018 Russia begins
16th Sussex Day
21st Shetland Day Suffolk Day
22nd Mercia Day (regional)
25th 40th Anniversary of the Rainbow flag first flown
30th National Armed Forces Day
July
1st Canada Day
4th USA Independence Day
14th Bastille Day, Black Country Day
15th Russia 2018 World Cup Final
23rd Historic Counties Flag Day
29th Buckinghamshire Day
August
1st Yorkshire Day
2nd Glasgow International Athletics begins
3rd Cowes Week begins
5th Northumberland Day
15th VJ Day
18th Glasgow International Athletics ends
22nd Yorkshire North Riding Day
24th Yorkshire East Riding Day
31st Northumbria Day
September
3rd Merchant Navy Day
6th 50 years Swaziland Independence
10th Gibraltar Day
13th Rutland Day
16th Owain Glyndwr Day, Mexican Independence Day
22nd Derbyshire Day
23rd Bi Pride Day
24th Cumberland Day
25th Monmouthshire Day
26th European Language Day
29th Westmorland Day
October
1st Lincolnshire Day
12th 50 Years Equatorial Guinea Independence
19th Oxfordshire Day, United Nations Day
26th Essex Day
31st Halloween
November
11th Remembrance Sunday
20th St Edmund’s Day
22nd USA Thanksgiving
27th Lancashire Day
28th Caernarfonshire Day
Bedfordshire Day
30th St Andrews Day
December
25th Christmas Day
31st New Year’s Eve