National Day

National Day' is a proposed official national day for the United Kingdom and a celebration of Britishness. Currently the UK has no single official national day, although the Queen's Official Birthday is used for this purpose in some contexts.

Candidates for a new national day
Most of the suggested proposals for a British National Day are already existing holidays or days of celebration in the UK which either are poorly marked by the government and the people, or are not readily associated with the idea of Britishness at present. They include:


 * Brexit Day (31 Jan) The day the United Kingdom officially left the European Union in 2020.
 * 1 May, being both May Day and the date that the Acts of Union 1707 took effect. The existing May Day bank holiday sometimes falls on 1 May.
 * Union of the Crowns (24 March), to commemorate the kingdoms of England and Scotland sharing one monarch
 * Great Britain Day (1 May) A day dedicated to the unification of England, Scotland and Wales as one country and one kingdom in the Treaty of Union
 * VE Day (8 May)
 * Oak Apple Day (29 May), the date of the Restoration
 * D-Day (6 June)
 * Democracy Day (7 June) to remember the Reform Act 1832, also known as the Great Reform Act.
 * Battle of Waterloo (18 June), marking a decisive victory over Napoleon
 * St Alban's Day (22 June), marking the first saint martyred in the British Isles, St Alban.
 * Magna Carta Day The date of the signing of the Magna Carta (15 June) (a legal Charter for the Kingdom of England
 * The Queen's Official Birthday (a Saturday chosen in June).
 * Wilberforce Day (24 August) to remember the ending of slavery and the part played by William Wilberforce.
 * Battle of Hastings (14 October) Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings
 * Trafalgar Day (21 October)
 * Guy Fawkes Night (5 November) to commemorate the failure of a plot to blow up the houses of parliament
 * Armistice Day (11 November)
 * Remembrance Sunday (Sunday following Armistice Day).