Calendar Of Events
January 2010
8th Elvis Presley's Birthday
10th Buffalo Bill died (1917)
14th Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs released (1938)
18th Halley's Comet first spotted (1910)
18th Cary Grant born (1904)
19th Tour de France first held (1903)
20th Wizard of Oz musical opend on Broadway (1903)
22nd Britain joins the EEC (1972)
24th World Rally Championships - Monte Carlo
25th Burns Night
26th Australia Day
26th Paul Newman born (1925)
February 2010
1st Clark Gable born (1901)
1st Stanley Matthews born (1914)
3rd Buddy Holly killed (1959)
6th Six Nations Rugby Starts
6th Six Nations - Ireland v Italy
6th Six Nations - England v Wales
7th Six Nations - Scotland v France
13th Six Nations - Wales v Scotland
13th Six Nations - France v Ireland
14th Six Nations - Italy v England
14th Valentines Day
14th Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger
14th World Rally Championships - Sweden
15th National Chip Week
19th Eastenders first televised (1985)
22nd Washington's Birthday
23rd Tom Jones released "Delilah" (1968)
26th Six Nations - Wales v France
27th Six Nations - Italy v Scotland
27th Six Nations - England v Ireland
March 2010
1st St David's Day
6th Battle of the Alamo
7th Oscar Night
7th World Rally Championships - Mexico
9th Napoleon married Josephine (1796)
13th Six Nations - Ireland v Wales
13th Six Nations - Scotland v England
14th Six Nations - France v Italy
16th Cheltenham Horse Racing - Cheltenham 4 day Festival
14th Mothering Sunday
17th St Patricks Day
20th Six Nations - Wales v Italy
20th Six Nations - Ireland v Scotland
20th Six Nations - France v England
25th Greek Independence Day
28th Australian F1 Grand Prix
31st Eiffel Tower inaugurated (1889)
April 2010
1st National Day - Iran
2nd Good Friday
3rd Jesse James, American bank & train robber, is shot (1882)
4th Easter Sunday
4th National Day - Senegal
6th First modern Olympic Games takes place (1896)
7th Dick Turpin hanged (1739)
10th Red Rum first to win a Grand National Hat Trick (1977)
11th World Rally Championships - Jordan
12th-18th Badminton European Championships, Manchester
16th Charlie Chaplin born (1889)
17th Ayr - Scottish Grand National
17th National Day - Samoa
17th National Day - Syria
TBA Sailing Majorca-Princess Sofia regatta
TBA Weightlifting Bucharest, Romania-European Championships
TBA Motor Sport Brands Hatch British Touring Car Championship
TBA F1 Grand Prix Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-Race 2
TBA Athletics-Dublin-Great Ireland Run
TBA Football Wembley: Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final
TBA Motor Sport Valencia-World Superbikes
TBA Fencing-World Junior & Cadet Championships
TBA Tennis ATP Houston
TBA Tennis ATP Casablanca
TBA Tennis WTA Ponte Vedra Beach
TBA Football Champions League quarter-finals 1st Leg
TBA Football UEFA Cup quarter-finals 1st Leg
TBA Golf Augusta, Georgia - The Masters
TBA Rugby Union Heineken Cup, European Challenge Cup quarter-finals
TBA Horse Racing Kempton
TBA Motor Sport Algarve, Portugal - A1GP Round Nine
TBA Motor Sport Qatar-MotoGP
TBA Rowing Hazewinkel, Belgium British Senior Trials
TBA Horse Racing Fairyhouse-Irish Grand National
TBA Tennis Monte Carlo-ATP Masters
TBA Tennis WTA Charleston
TBA Tennis WTA Barcelona
TBA Football Champions League quarter-finals 2nd Leg
TBA Horse Racing Newmarket-Craven Meeting
TBA Cricket County Championship Season starts
TBA Horse Racing Cheltenham
TBA Horse Racing Newmarket
TBA Equestrianism Las Vegas World Cup Dressage and Show Jumping Finals
TBA Football UEFA Cup quarter-finals 2nd Leg
TBA Equestrianism NEC Birmingham British Open Show Jumping Championships
TBA Golf Beijing Volvo China Open
TBA Horse Racing Ayr Scottish Grand National
18th National Day - Zimbabwe
TBA Horse Racing Newbury
TBA Rugby Union-Twickenham EDF Energy Cup Final
TBA Diving-Sheffield World Series
TBA Football Wembley FA Cup semi-finals
TBA Snooker Crucible, Sheffield-World Championships
TBA Formula One Grand Prix Shanghai, China-Race 3
19th American war of independence started (1775)
TBA Athletics Boston Marathon
TBA Tennis ATP Barcelona
TBA Equestrianism Kentucky Three Day
TBA Golf Jeju Island, South Korea-Ballantine's Championship
21st Queen Elizabeth's Birthday
23rd St George's Day -National Day-England
TBA Horse Racing Sandown Park-Betfred Gold Cup Meeting
TBA Horse Racing Sandown-Finale Meeting
TBA Motor Sport Rally Argentina
TBA Rugby Union Guinness Premiership-Final Round
TBA Football Hampden Park Scottish Cup semi-finals
TBA Motor Sport Thruxton British Touring Car Championship
25th The guillotine first used in France (1792)
25th World Rally Championships - Turkey
26th William Shakespeare christened (1564)
TBA Horse Racing Longchamp-Prix Ganay
TBA Formula One Grand Prix Sakhir, Bahrain-Race 4
25th Athletics London Virgin Marathon
TBA Motor Sport Motegi, Japan MotoGP
TBA Motor Sport Assen, Holland-World Superbikes
26th National Day - Tanzania
TBA Tennis - Rome - ATP Masters
TBA Tennis - WTA Stuttgart
TBA Tennis - WTA Fes
27th National Day - Sierra Leone
27th National Day - South Africa
27th National Day - Togo
TBA Tennis Rome-ATP Masters
TBA Tennis WTA Stuttgart
TBA Tennis WTA Fes
28th Mutiny on the Bounty (1789)
30th National Day - Netherlands Antilles
30th National Day - Netherlands
TBA Horse Racing Punchestown-Punchestown Festival
TBA Football Champions League semi-finals 1st Leg
TBA Table Tennis-Yokohama, Japan-World Championships
TBA Surfing-Thurso-O'Neill Highland Open
TBA Football UEFA Cup semi-finals 1st Leg
TBA Golf Quail Hollow Club Championship (to TBA)
TBA Golf Open de Espana(to TBA)
May 2010
1st May Day
1st New Market - 2000 Guineas
1st Kentuck Derby
2nd Newmarket - 1000 Guineas
2nd World's first ever jet airliner (the De Havilland Comet 1) leaves from London 1952
3rd National Day - Poland
TBA Columbus discovers Jamaica (1494)
3rd Polish National Day
TBA Newmarket 1,000 Guineas
4th First Derby was run (1780)
4th Bank Holiday
4th Margaret Thatcher - 1st woman Prime Minister 1979
TBA Football - FA Women's Cup Final
5th Cinco de Mayo Mexicans celebrate defeating the French at Puebla, Mexico
TBA Football - Champions League semi-finals 2nd Leg
6th Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile 1954
TBA Horse Racing - Chester Cup Meeting
TBA Cricket - 1st Test - Lords - England v West Indies
TBA Football - UEFA Cup semi-finals 2nd Leg
TBA Equestrianism - Badminton Horse Trials
TBA Golf - Sawgrass, Florida - Italian Open - Players Championship
8th Coca Cola first sold on this day in 1886
8th V E Day 1945
9th Europe Day
TBA Football - FA Trophy Final
TBA Horse Racing - Ascot
TBA Horse Racing - Haydock
TBA Horse Racing - Lingfield
TBA Croquet - West Palm Beach, Florida - World Championships
TBA Cycling - Giro d'Italia
9th National Day - Alderney
9th National Day - Guernsey & Dependencies
9th National Day - Jersey
9th National Day - Sark
TBA Motor Sport - Monza - World Superbikes
TBA Horse Racing - Capanelle (Italy) - Derby Italiano
TBA Horse Racing - Leopardstown (Ire) - Derrinstown 1000 Guineas Trial
TBA Formula One - Barcelona, Spain - Race 5
10th National Day - Micronesia
TBA Football - FA Vase Final
12th Florence Nightingale born 1820
15th Spanish Armada
15th International Day of Families
TBA Horse Racing - York
TBA Equestrianism - Royal Windsor Horse Show
12th Cannes Film Festival -ends 23rd
TBA Horse Racing - York - Dante Stakes
TBA Golf - Irish Open
TBA Cricket - 2nd Test - Riverside - England v West Indies
14th National Day - Israel
14th National Day - Paraguay
TBA Horse Racing - Newbury
TBA Horse Racing - Newbury - Lockinge Stakes
TBA Motor Sport - Donington Park - British Touring Car Championships
TBA Hockey - English Cup Finals
16th 1st Academy Awards Ceremony 1929
16th World Rally Championships - New Zealand
TBA Motor Sport - Le Mans - MotoGP
TBA Motor Sport - Kyalami, S. Africa - World Superbikes
TBA Athletics - Bupa Great Manchester Run
17th National Day - Norway
17th Al Capone first jailed (1929)
18th International Museum Day
TBA FA Cup Final
20th First picture received from Hubble Space Telescope 1990
TBA UEFA Cup Final
TBA Football - Istanbul - UEFA Cup Final
20th National Day - Cameroon
20th National Day - East Timor
TBA Paralympic Sport - Manchester - World Cup
TBA Horse Racing - Goodwood
TBACricket - 1st One Day - Headingley Carnegie - England v West Indies
TBA Golf - Wentworth - BMW PGA Championship
TBA Golf - Beechwood. Ohio - Senior PGA Championship
22nd National Day - Rep of Yemen
22nd National Day - Yemen
TBA Motor Sport - Rally of Italy
22nd Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born 1859
23rd Bonnie & Clyde killed by police (1934)
TBA Horse Racing - Curragh (Ire) - Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas
TBA Football - Wembley - League Two Playoff Final
TBA Horse Racing - Haydock
TBA Squash - Malmo, Sweden - European Team Championships
TBA Tennis - Rome - ATP Masters
TBA Tennis - WTA Stuttgart
TBA Tennis - WTA Fes
TBA Snooker - Crucible, Sheffield - World Championships
TBA Table Tennis - Yokohama, Japan - World Championships
TBA Surfing - Thurso - O'Neill Highland Open
TBA Horse Racing - Newmarket - 2000 Guineas
TBA Horse Racing - Churchill Downs (USA) - Kentucky Derby
TBA Football - League One/League Two - Final Day
TBA Horse Racing - Churchill Downs - Kentucky Derby
TBA 3rd Horse Racing - Newmarket - Guineas Festival
TBA Athletics - Bupa Great Edinburgh Run
TBA Football - Championship Final Day
TBA Motor Sport - Brands Hatch - AIGP Round 10
TBA Motor Sport - Jerez, Spain - MotoGP
TBA Motor Sport - Indianapolis 500 - IndyCar
TBA Horse Racing - Curragh (Ire) - Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas/Tattersalls Gold Cup
TBA Cricket - 2nd One Day - Bristol - England v West Indies
TBA Formula One - Monte Carlo, Monaco - Race 6
TBA Football - Premier League Final Day
TBA Football - Wembley - League One Playoff Final
24th National Day - Bermuda
24th National Day - Eritrea
TBA French Open Tennis - Paris (to 7th June)
TBA Spring Bank Holiday
TBA Football - Wembley - Championship Playoff Final
25th National Day - Argentina
25th National Day - Jordan
TBA Cricket - 3rd One Day - Edgbaston - England v West Indies
26th National Day - Georgia
26th John Wayne's Birthday
TBA Football - Rome - Champions League Final
28th Francis Chichester sails in to Plymouth after single-handed voyage around the world 1967
28th Eric Morecombe dies 1984
TBA Canoeing - Nottingham - European slalom championships
TBA Golf - European Open
28th National Day - Armenia
28th National Day - Azerbaijan
28th National Day - Ethiopia
29th Eurovision Song Contest
29th Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest 1953
29th Manchester Utd win European Cup 1968
TBA FA Cup Final
30th First Aircraft Ejection Seat used 1949
TBA Football - Hampden Park - Scottish Cup Final
30th National Day - Anguilla
TBA Motor Sport - Oulton Park - British Touring Car Championship
TBA Motor Sport - Isle Of Man - TT Races
TBA Motor Sport - Mugello, Italy - MotoGP
TBA Motor Sport - Salt Lake City - World Superbikes
30th Whit Sunday
31st Earliest known Bike Race - Paris 1868
31st Cheese Rolling
June 2010
1st Sgt Pepper released by the Beatles 1967
1st Marilyn Monroe was born (1926)
1st National Day - Samoa
2nd Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953
2nd National Day - Italy
3rd First Bikini modelled in Paris 1946
4th National Day - Tonga
5th National Day - Denmark
TBC Horse Racing - Epsom Downs - Coronation Cup & Oaks
6th D Day 1944
TBC Horse Racing - Epsom Downs - Derby
6th National Day - Sweden
TBC Grand Prix Formula One - Istanbul, Turkey - Race 7
10th First Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race 1829
10th National Day - Portugal
12th National Day - Russia
12th National Day - Philippines
TBC Veterans Awareness Week
TBC Horse Racing - Belmont Park (USA) - The Belmont Stakes
14th Trooping the Colour
14th Flag Day - USA
12th National Day - Falkland Islands
15th Royal Ascot - ends 19th
15th Horse Racing - Ascot - Royal Ascot - St James's Palace Stakes
17th National Day - Iceland
TBC Horse Racing - Ascot - Royal Ascot - Prince of Wales's Stakes
18th National Day - Seychelles
18th Battle of Waterloo 1815
TBC Horse Racing - Ascot - Royal Ascot - Gold Cup
TBC Horse Racing - Ascot - Royal Ascot - Coronation Stakes
TBC Horse Racing - Ascot - Royal Ascot - Golden Jubilee Stakes
20th World Rally Championships - Indonesia
21st Father's Day
21st Longest Day of the Year
TBC Grand Prix Formula One - Silverstone, Great Britain - Race 8
21st National Day - Greenland
21st Wimbledon starts (ends 4th July)
23rd National Day - Luxembourg
24th Midsummer Day
TBC Glastonbury Festival
24th Picasso's first art exhibition in Paris (1901)
24th National Day - Québec
25th National Day - Croatia
25th National Day - Mozambique
25th Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)
25th National Day - Slovenia
26th National Day - Madagascar
27th National Day - Djibouti
27th Armed Forces Day
TBC Wrong Trousers Day
28th Coronation of Queen Victoria 1834
TBC Horse Racing - Curragh (Ire) - Irish Derby
30th National Day - DR of Congo
30th Tower Bridge opens (1894)
30th Alfred Hitchcocks "Psycho" opened (1960)
July 2010
11th British Grand Prix
1st Canada Day
1st Children's Art Day
1st 999 Emergency Service introduced 1937
1st National Day - British Virgin Islands
1st National Day - Burundi
1st National Day - Rwanda
TBC Henley Royal Regatta (to TBC)
3rd The Mallard breaks speed record for steam engine 126mph 1938
3rd National Day - Belarus
TBC Horse Racing - Sandown Park - Coral-Eclipse Day
3rd Wimbledon Womens Singles Final
4th Wimbledon Mens Singles Final
4th USA Independence Day
5th NHS 61st Anniversary
5th National Day - Isle of Man
5th National Day - Venezuela
6th National Day - Comoros
6th National Day - Malawi
7th Boris Becker (unseeded and 17) wins Wimbledon 1985
7th Dixon of Dock Green first televised 1955
7th-12th Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
7th National Day - Solomon Is
8th NSPCC founded 1884
9th National Day - Palau
10th National Day - Bahamas
11th World Population Day
11th Andy Pandy first televised 1950
11th National Day - Flanders
11th National Day - Mongolia
TBC Formula One - Nurburgring, Germany - Race 9
12th National Day - Kiribati
TBC German Grand Prix
12th Panama Canal opened 1920
12th Battle of the Boyne - Northern Ireland
13th Live Aid Concert 1985
13th National Day - Montenegro
14th National Day - Guadeloupe
14th National Day - Martinique
14th National Day - Réunion
14th Bastille Day
15th St Swithin's Day
TBC Larmer Tree Festival
15th British Open Golf Championship - Ends 18th
17th National Day - Iraq
18th World Rally Championships - Russia
20th Apollo 11 lands on the moon 1969
20th National Day - Colombia
21st National Day - Guam
21st National Day - Belgium
TBC Motor Show
23rd National Day - Egypt
TBC Horse Racing - Ascot - King George V1 & Queen Elizabeth Stakes
24th GPO launch the first speaking clock (TIM) 1936
25th St Christopher's Day
25th St James' Day
25th National Day - Puerto Rico
TBC Formula One - Budapest, Hungary - Race 10
26th National Day - Liberia
26th National Day - Maldives
28th Fingerprints first used for identification purposes 1901
TBC Horse Racing - Goodwood - Glorius Goodwood
28th National Day - Peru
TBC Horse Racing - Goodwood - Sussex Stakes
29th National Day - Faroe Islands
30th National Day - Vanuatu
31st Cowes Week - ends 7th August
August 2010
1st Cowes Week - ends 7th August
6th Edinburgh Tattoo - ends 28th August
8th World Rally Championships - Bulgaria
TBC Great British Beer Festival
TBC Turkish Grand Prix
22nd World Rally Championships - Germany
25th Tomatino Fight (Tomato fight in Spain)
30th Summer Bank Holiday
September 2010
TBC World Rally Championships - Australia
12th Last Night Of The Proms
12th Italian F1 Grand Prix
16th Mexican Independence Day
19th International Talk Like A Pirate Day
18th Oktoberfest (to TBC)
19th Talk Like A Pirate Day
TBC British Food Fortnight (to TBC)
26th European Day of Languages
October 2010
1st Ryder Cup Celtic Manor Resort, Newport - Foursome & Four Ball Matches
1st Older Persons Day
2nd Ryder Cup Celtic Manor Resort, Newport - Foursome & Four Ball Matches
2nd World Smile Day
3rd Ryder Cup Celtic Manor Resort, Newport - Singles Matches
TBC Japanese F1 Grand Prix
3rd National Day - Germany
4th World Animal Day
4th World Space Week (to 10th)
TBC World Rally Championships - Spain
5th International Teachers Day
6th World Architecture Day
7th National Children's Book Week (to 13th)
9th Yom Kippur
9th National Poetry Day
12th National Day - Spain
16th World Food Day
16th Blue Peter first televised 1958
18th RSPB Feed the Birds Day
TBC Brazilian F1 Grand Prix
21st Eye Patch Day
21st Apple Day
21st Trafalgar Day
24th United Nations Day
TBC World Rally Championships - British
25th British Summer Time (BST) ends
29th National Day - Turkey
TBC Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix
30th Wear it Pink Day
31st Halloween
November 2009
1st All Saints Day
1st Motorcycling - World Superbike Championship, Portugal (to 2nd)
2nd All Souls Day
5th Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night
9th Remembrance Sunday
11th Armistice Rememberance Day
11th Panorama first televised 1953
TBC Football - UEFA Cup 1st round, 1st leg
14th World Diabetes Day
18th Al Capone's Birthday (1899)
19th Hawaii Discovered by Captain James Cook (1778)
19th Beaujolais Nouveau
20th Go Pink Day with Breakthrough Breast Cancer
20th Children in Need
21st World Television Day
21st World Hello Day
22nd Blackbeard Died (1718)
23rd National Curry Week (to 29th)
24th National Eating Out Week (to 29th)
26th Thanksgiving
29th Horse Racing - Hennessy Gold Cup - Newbury
30th St Andrew's Day
December 2009
1st World Aids Day
6th Tree Dressing Days (to 7th)
6th St Nicholas Day
10th International Human Rights Day
11th International Mountain Day
16th Boston Tea Party
18th Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men first televised 1952
21st Winter Solstice - Shortest Day
24th Christmas Eve
25th Christmas Day
26th Boxing Day
31st New Years Eve - Party!