Annual Calendars – General International (GB Edition)

2022 Annual Calendar - General International

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General International Annual Calendar Maps are built on the Annual Base Calendar for the specific year, with the addition of over 500 internationally significant diary events as sub-branches of the relevant day branch – such as astronomical events (eg. phases of the moon), religious observances, United Nations Observances and the national days of every official country in the world. As usual with our knowledge maps the branches have attached links to relevant, public domain knowledge resources about the event – the official event page from the organiser (if there is one), and any other useful sources (eg. there is usually a page or a sub-article on Wikipedia).

Thus as well as a versatile calendar to plan your year ahead (as well as become the archive file of what happened when), this map is a knowledge portal to those annually recurring events that shape our day to day lives for all interested citizens of the world. We have never mixed together as friends, neighbours, colleagues & lovers to the extent we do now In these days of globalisation, so anything that increases our mutual understanding of where we’ve all come from and where (and when) we all want to go next, can only be welcomed 🙂

United Kingdom Nationals: This ‘GB Edition’ of our General International Knowledge Calendar map contains additional sub-branches for nationally significant days & public holidays specific to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its constituent home nations, with attached multiple links to relevant, public domain knowledge resources about them

MindManager Users: You are free to edit, remove or add to the calendar map as required eg. adding your own diary events to plan & keep track of your year in general, or specific projects and milestones. Once your year is over your map becomes your instantly accessible archive file for what happened when. Your ‘business year’ doesn’t start on January 1st? Mix and match main branches from different years to create your own bespoke annual calendar map.

The ‘GB (United Kingdom) Editions’ of our General International Knowledge Calendar maps for specific years in the Gregorian (‘Western’) calendar contain additional knowledge seed sub-branches for nationally significant events & days specific to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its constituent home nations.

GB specific events include national public (‘bank’) holidays and cultural celebrations such as national saints days. These complement the 500+ international, publicly events already in the calendar.

All the seed branches have a rich range of visual knowledge elements embedded within, or attached to, them – such as unique icon graphic, flags, ‘traditional’ monthly calendar grid (spreadsheet) for handy reference, multiple hyperlinks to official / definitive / plain old useful online knowledge resources about the day, month or event (eg. the official event page from the organiser (if there is one), and any other useful sources (eg. there is usually a page or a sub-article on Wikipedia), and a range of time or event related marker tags that enable the map to be filtered to show only branches with those values. Together they provide a rich ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge & knowledge resource links about a specific year, not only the days and months but also the events that occured in it (see the ‘Seed Branches’ tab for a detailed description).

As well as being a versatile calendar to plan your year ahead (and become the archive index file of what happened when), this map is a knowledge portal to those regularly recurring events that shape our day to day lives as citizens of the world. We have never all mixed together as neighbours, colleagues, friends & lovers to the extent we do now in these days of globalisation, so anything that increases our mutual understanding of where we’ve all come from and where (and when) we all want to go next, can only be welcomed 🙂

26,001 Total map branches
26,001 Total hyperlinks to public domain knowledge resources
12 Months of the Specific Year
365 Days of the Specific Year
500+ Annually Recurring Significant Public Events

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Knowledge seed branches provide a ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge about the subject embedded within, or attached to, them in the form of…

Image [Embedded] – Such as thumbnail location maps, flags, icons, people profile pictures etc., which provide a unique visual element that users can instantly latch on to as they navigate their way through the map.
Branch Text [Embedded] – Rich (ie. variably formatted) branch text – such as names & unique identifying codes (taken from official sources) – is a unique MindManager feature.
Branch Note [Attached] – Contains supplementary information with all the elements of a word processed page – variably formatted (‘rich’) text, tables and images.
Spreadsheet Table / Chart [Embedded] – Containing contextual facts & figures, which can be toggled between table and chart view as appropriate (once again unique to MindManager).
Multiple Single Data Fields [Embedded] – Another way of adding contextual facts & figures to the map (once again unique to MindManager), these are like single cells in a spreadsheet and the values can be used to format the topic.
Index Marker Tags [Attached] – Arranged in groups and added to individual branches as appropriate, tags add contextual knowledge, enable map filtering and navigation.
Multiple Hyperlinks [Attached] – Another unique feature, multiple links to a range of official definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources about the subject of the seed branch – usually selected from the full range of general & geographic knowledge resource collections – help turn the map into a knowledge portal without adding to the visual clutter.

All the seed branches and their associated embedded / attached contextual knowledge elements used in this map are described in detail below…

Specific Month Of The Specific Year Seed Branch

Specific Month Of The Specific Year Seed Branch

MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways…

Image: Specific Month & Year Icon
A bespoke icon that uniquely identifies the specifc month of the specific year using a calendar image, which ccontains the specific year above the name of the month (abbreviated to the first 3 letters).

Note(s)
i) The icon was originally designed and created by us as a 48 x 48 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size (typically 2-3 KB).

Text: Specific Month & Year
Richly formatted text string of the specific month name in full and the year, eg. ‘January 2020’.

Embedded Spreadsheet: Specific Month Calendar Grid
An embedded spreadsheet (another unique MindManager feature) showing all the days of the specific month in terms of the 7 days of the week in a traditional calendar grid layout. The weekend days of saturday and sunday are differentiated by background shading.

Note(s)
i) This embedded feature can be hidden / shown by clicking the green toggle arrow just above the top right corner of the embedded feature.

ii) The contents of an embedded spreadsheet can be a simple table, or it can be numerical data. If the latter then if it is structured appropriately the data can also be viewed as a chart (the range of chart types is the same as other spreadsheet software). MindManger users are able to toggle between the spreadsheet and chart view, whilst the view is fixed on export of the HTML version.

Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
Arranged in groups and attached to branches as required, index marker tags…

provide additional contextual knowledge about the seed branch, visiable to all users.
enable dynamic filtering of the map content to only show / hide branches that have been tagged with the selected marker

Given the subjectivity of how we humans divide and organise our activities around time intervals, not all the tag groups created for this map are already attached to this seed branch.

TAGS ALREADY ATTACHED
The index marker tags already attached to this seed topic are from the following groups…

TIME – Months – Year (Mon YYYY) – The specific months of the specific Gregorian Calendar year as abbreviated text and year – 12 tags from eg. ‘Jan 2019’ to ‘Dec 2019’.

TIME – Months – Year (MNN-YYYY) – The specific months of the Gregorian Calendar year as a numerical sequence – 12 tags from eg. ‘M01-2019’ to ‘M12-2019’.

TAGS NOT YET ATTACHED BUT AVAILABLE FOR USE
These are available to the (MindManger) user to use in this (or any other) map as they see fit (note that they will not be visible in the HTML version of the map). These additional tag groups fall in to 2 categories..

‘Buisness Year’ Tags – The ‘buisness year’ of any organisation – be it commercial, charity, community group etc. – usually straddles calendar years eg. 2019/20, and, though the personal tax year usually runs from April to March, the ‘business year’ can start from any month. Thus we have also created ‘business year’ marker tag groups that contain the calendar year, in 2 formats…

TIME – Years (YYYY) – The particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘2019’, plus the year either side (3 tags in all).

TIME – Years (YYYY/YY) – The 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘2018/19’ and ‘2019’20’ (2 tags in all).

Sub-Annual Time Interval Tags – Organisations also often like to further subdivide their business year into ‘quarters’ and ‘weeks’ as well as months, all of which can be tied to the business year eg. ‘Quarter 1 of 2018/19’. We have also included tag groups for them but, as there are no coresponding branches on the map, users may want to create additional branches for them and restructure their calendar accordingly…

TIME – Quarters – YYYY (QN-YYYY) – The quarters of the particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘ Q1 2019’ (4 tags in all from Q1 YYYY to Q4 YYYY).

TIME – Quarters – YYYY/YY (QN-YYYY/YY) – The quarters of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘ Q1 2018/19’ and Q1 2019/20 (2 groups of 4 tags from Q1 YYYY/YY to Q4 YYYY/YY).

TIME – Months – YYYY/YY (Mon-YYYY/YY) – The months of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map with the month in 3 letter abbreviation format eg. ‘ Jan 2018/19’ and Jan 2019/20 (2 groups of 12 tags from Jan YYYY/YY to Dec YYYY/YY).

TIME – Months – YYYY/YY (MNN – YYYY/YY) – The months of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map with the month in numeric sequence format eg. ‘ M01 2018/19’ and M01 2019/20 (2 groups of 12 tags from M01 YYYY/YY to M12 YYYY/YY)

TIME – Weeks – YYYY (WNN-YYYY) – The weeks of the particular calendar year of the map with the weeks in numerical sequence format eg. ‘W01 2019’ (52 tags in all from W01 YYYY to W52 YYYY).

TIME – Weeks – YYYY/YY (WNN-YYYY/YY) – The weeks of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map with the month in numeric sequence format eg. ‘ W01 2018/19’ and W01 2019/20 (2 groups of 52 tags from W01 YYYY/YY to W52 YYYY/YY).

General Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain..

EVENTS – prefix indicates tags to do with an event that can be added to a calendar map – the ‘type’ of event, how the date of it fixed etc.
GEO – prefix indicates geographic tags, usually areas of some kind, often in a hierarchy eg. UN Geoscheme regions, sub-regions, countries, states, counties, communities etc. The names of GEO tags incorporate the official ID codes as well as names, and will always be present in some form in ‘atlas’ knowledge maps. GEO tags allow ‘spatial intelligence’ to be built into a map, even if it isn’t structured in a geographic way. When a map is ‘geo filtered’ using one of these tags it is the equivalent of using ‘Lookup Tables’ in ‘GIS’.
TIME – prefix indicates time based tags. These can be generic (eg. months of the year, days of the week etc.) or specific (eg. a year, a date etc.). TIME tags will always be present in some form in ‘calendar’ knowledge maps.
RESOURCE – prefix indicates some aspect of a resource, such as the type of resource or who is responsible for creating / maintaining it.

ii) Within MindManager, tags…

can be used to format map branches using MindManager’s unique Smart Rules’ feature e.g. colouring the weekend days in a calendar map to make them stand out.
provide a useful means of internal navigation between map topics (clicking on the branch that is shown as being tagged with that marker in the ‘Index Task Pane’ will immediately focus the map on that banch).
can be generated automatically from branches (the title of the parent branch is the group name and those of all the immediate sub-branches become the individual tags within the group) .
can be copied and pasted in their groups from one map to another.

Multiple Hyperlinks: Multiple
See next section for full details

Specific Month Of The Specific Year Seed Branch

One of our philosophies at KnowledgeMappers is not to reinvent the wheel whenever possible. Thus we include hyperlinks to original official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge sources whenever possible, as well as links to Wikipedia pages for additional, “bigger picture” context (often not obvious, or even absent from, the original source). By doing this…

original sources get used more often, by more people.
errors get spotted quicker, thereby improving the information quality for everybody.
updates get promulgated sooner to end users.
rather than us having to interpret original sources to create further information resources around “big picture” context for a subject we are not experts in, users of our map can “get it straight from the horses mouth” as it were, so everybody benefits.

The following knowledge resource links are attached to this seed branch (arranged in alphabetical order within the groupings)…

Internal Navigation Links

Days of the month sub-branches – The Month branch has internal hyperlinks to each day of that month sub-branch, which provides a means of quickly navigating to it.

Note(s)
i) Each day of the month sub-branch also has an internal hyperlink back to this month branch, so you can quickly jump back and forth between days.

ii) The ‘Dates’ and ‘Months’ index marker tags used throughout the map branches provide another means of quick internal navigation.

General Knowledge Resource Links

Wikipedia: Generic Month Article – Encyclopedia article on Wikipedia about the generic month e.g. ‘January’.

Wikipedia: Worldwide Current Events Portal for Specific Month – Encyclopedia article on Wikipedia ‘Current Events’ portal for the specific month e.g. ‘January 2019’.

General Note(s)
i) MindManager has the unique ability to have multiple hyperlinks attached to a single map branch, and to edit the default title text of the link to make it more meaningful to the user. This…

greatly reduces the visual clutter of the map.
means a full basket of links to official / definitive / useful knowledge resources about the subject can stay with the seed branch if it is re-used in other maps.

ii) The chain icon at the end of a branch (rather than the favicon (logo icon) served by the linked-to website) indicates where a branch has more than one hyperlink.

iii) In the circular knowledge economy way of Wikipedia if there is knowledge that you could add to an existing page that is linked to, or even starting a page that doesn’t yet exist, then go for it! That’s what it’s all about!

Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch

Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch

MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways…

Image: Specific Date Icon
A bespoke icon that uniquely identifies the specific day of the year using a double calendar image. The left hand calendar contains the specific year above the name of the month (abbreviated to the first 3 letters), whilst the right hand one contains the day of the week (abbreviated to the first 3 letters) above the numerical day of the month (so from 1 to 31).

Note(s)
i) The icon was originally designed and created by us as a 96 x 48 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size (typically 2-3 KB).

Text: Specific Date
Richly formatted text string of the specific date (year, month & day of the month) and day of the week in the format eg. ‘1 Jan 2020 Wed’. The day of the week is in normal (as opposed to bold) font to improve ‘readbility’.

Branch Shading Colour: ‘Type’ of Day
Day topics are shaded according to the usual differentiation between days of the week – working (‘normal’) days and weekends – as well as public holidays.

Note(s)
i) Topic shading is controlled by a Smart Rule (a unique MindManager feature) triggered by the ‘TIME – Days of the week’ index marker tag – ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default. MindManager users can easily change this rule to set weekends as any days of the week they want.

Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
Arranged in groups and attached to branches as required, index marker tags…

provide additional contextual knowledge about the seed branch, visiable to all users.
enable dynamic filtering of the map content to only show / hide branches that have been tagged with the selected marker

Index maker tags attached to this knowledge seed branch are as follows…

TIME – Dates – YYYY (D Mon YYYY DoW) – Every date of the year in the same format as the day branch text – 365 tags from eg. ‘1 Jan 2019 Tue’ to ’31 Dec 2019 Tue’.

TIME – Dates YYYY (DD/MM/YYYY) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in the most commonly used numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’31/12/2019′.

TIME – Dates YYYY (MM/DD/YYYY) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘Amercan’ style numeric format (ie. months first) – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’12/31/2019′.

TIME – Dates YYYY (YYYY/MM/DD) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘year first’ numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’31/12/2019′.
Note(s)
i) This format is the only one in which the chronological order of the tags in the group will ‘survive’ a numeric sorting operation (ie. arrange ‘lowest to highest’ or ‘highest to lowest’).

TIME – Dates (D Mon) – Every generic date of the month, for each of the 12 months of the generic Gregorian Calendar year as abbreviated text and number – 365 tags from ‘Jan 1’ to ‘Dec 31’.

TIME – Days – Of the Year (DNNN) – The seqential number of the day in the generic calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001’ to ‘D365’ (366 if it’s a leap year).

TIME – Days – YYYY (DNNN-YYYY) – The seqential number of the day in the specific calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001-2019’ to ‘D365-2019’ (366 if it’s a leap year).

TIME – Days – Of the Week (Day) – The days of the week abbreviated to the first 3 letters – 7 tags from ‘Mon’ to ‘Sun’.
Note(s)
i) The tags in this group are used to control the shading of ‘working’ and ‘weekend’ day branches by a Smart Rule in MindManager (a unique MindManager feature). ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default but these can be changed within MindManager.

TAGS NOT CURRENTLY ATTACHED TO THIS SEED BRANCH BUT AVAILABLE FOR USE AS REQUIRED

For this map we have created more groups of tags than are assigned to the branches…

‘Buisness Year’ Tags – The ‘buisness year’ of any organisation – be it commercial, charity, community group etc. – usually straddles calendar years eg. 2019/20, and, though the personal tax year usually runs from April to March, the ‘business year’ can start from any month. Thus we have also created ‘business year’ marker tag groups that contain the calendar year.
Additional Day Criteria – There are lots of different ways that days in a calendar can be classified. We have also included tag groups for some of them.

These will be specific to the user as to whether they want to include them, and which ones go where. Thus they have not been assigned to seed branches but they are available in the index marker pane of the map for MindManager users to use in this (or any other) map. They will not be visible in the HTML version.

TIME – Days – YYYY/YY (DNNN-YYYY/YY) – The seqential number of the days of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map – 2 groups of 365 tags from eg. ‘D001-2018/19’ to ‘D356-2018/19’ (366 if it’s a leap year).

TIME – Days – Type – The type of day with respect to work & lifestyle. 3 tags in all…

Working
Holiday
Weekend

Note(s)
i) Day branches are not tagged with ‘type’ as they are very subjective to the user and the society in which they live and work.

General Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain…

EVENTS – prefix indicates tags to do with an event that can be added to a calendar map – the ‘type’ of event, how the date of it fixed etc.
GEO – prefix indicates geographic tags, usually areas of some kind, often in a hierarchy eg. UN Geoscheme regions, sub-regions, countries, states, counties, communities etc. The names of GEO tags incorporate the official ID codes as well as names, and will always be present in some form in ‘atlas’ knowledge maps. GEO tags allow ‘spatial intelligence’ to be built into a map, even if it isn’t structured in a geographic way. When a map is ‘geo filtered’ using one of these tags it is the equivalent of using ‘Lookup Tables’ in ‘GIS’.
TIME – prefix indicates time based tags. These can be generic (eg. months of the year, days of the week etc.) or specific (eg. a year, a date etc.). TIME tags will always be present in some form in ‘calendar’ knowledge maps.
RESOURCE – prefix indicates some aspect of a resource, such as the type of resource or who is responsible for creating / maintaining it.

ii) Within MindManager, tags…

can be used to format map branches using MindManager’s unique Smart Rules’ feature e.g. colouring the weekend days in a calendar map to make them stand out.
provide a useful means of internal navigation between map topics (clicking on the branch that is shown as being tagged with that marker in the ‘Index Task Pane’ will immediately focus the map on that banch).
can be generated automatically from branches (the title of the parent branch is the group name and those of all the immediate sub-branches become the individual tags within the group) .
can be copied and pasted in their groups from one map to another.

Attached Hyperlinks: Various – See next section for full details

Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch

One of our philosophies at KnowledgeMappers is not to reinvent the wheel. whenever possible. Thus we include hyperlinks to original official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge sources whenever possible, as well as links to Wikipedia pages for additional, “bigger picture” context (often not obvious, or even absent from, the original source). By doing this…

original sources get used more often, by more people.
errors get spotted quicker, thereby improving the information quality for everybody.
updates get promulgated sooner to end users.
rather than us having to interpret original sources to create further information resources around “big picture” context for a subject we are not experts in, users of our map can “get it straight from the horses mouth” as it were, so everybody benefits.

The following knowledge resource links are attached to this seed branch (arranged in alphabetical order within the groupings)…

Internal Navigation Links

Internal Navigation Links: Month parent branch – Each day of the month sub-branch has an internal hyperlink back to the parent month branch, so you can quickly jump ‘back up’ the map.

Note(s)
i) The Month branch also has internal hyperlinks to each day of that month sub-branch, which provides a means of quickly navigating to it.so you can quickly jump back and forth between days.

ii) The ‘Dates’ and ‘Months’ index marker tags used throughout the map branches provide another means of quick internal navigation.

General Knowledge Resource Links

On This Day: Generic Day List – With over 215,000 entries On This Day is the world’s largest ‘on this day in history’ website.

Wikipedia: Worldwide Current Events Portal For The Generic Day – Encyclopedia article on Wikipedia ‘Current Events’ portal for the generic day of the month e.g. ‘1 May’.

Wikipedia: Worldwide Current Events Portal For The Specific Day – Encyclopedia article on Wikipedia ‘Current Events’ portal for the specific date e.g. ‘1 May 2019’.

General Note(s)
i) MindManager has the unique ability to have multiple hyperlinks attached to a single map branch, and to edit the default title text of the link to make it more meaningful to the user. This…

greatly reduces the visual clutter of the map.
means a full basket of links to official / definitive / useful knowledge resources about the subject can stay with the seed branch if it is re-used in other maps.

ii) The chain icon at the end of a branch (rather than the favicon (logo icon) served by the linked-to website) indicates where a branch has more than one hyperlink.

Knowledge seed branches provide a ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge about the subject embedded within, or attached to, them in the form of…

Image [Embedded] – Such as thumbnail location maps, flags, icons, people profile pictures etc., which provide a unique visual element that users can instantly latch on to as they navigate their way through the map.
Branch Text [Embedded] – Rich (ie. variably formatted) branch text – such as names & unique identifying codes (taken from official sources) – is a unique MindManager feature.
Branch Note [Attached] – Contains supplementary information with all the elements of a word processed page – variably formatted (‘rich’) text, tables and images.
Spreadsheet Table / Chart [Embedded] – Containing contextual facts & figures, which can be toggled between table and chart view as appropriate (once again unique to MindManager).
Multiple Single Data Fields [Embedded] – Another way of adding contextual facts & figures to the map (once again unique to MindManager), these are like single cells in a spreadsheet and the values can be used to format the topic.
Index Marker Tags [Attached] – Arranged in groups and added to individual branches as appropriate, tags add contextual knowledge, enable map filtering and navigation.
Multiple Hyperlinks [Attached] – Another unique feature, multiple links to a range of official definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources about the subject of the seed branch – usually selected from the full range of general & geographic knowledge resource collections – help turn the map into a knowledge portal without adding to the visual clutter.

All the seed branches and their associated embedded / attached contextual knowledge elements used in this map are described in detail below…

International Public Events & Knowledge Resource Link Collection

Recurring Significant International Public Events Knowledge Resource Link Collection

This collection contains multiple links to official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ knolwedge resources about 500+ annually recurring events that will be of public significance no matter where you are in this ‘globalised world’…

Astronomical Events – Predicatably recurring significant events in the annual machinations of Planet Earth that are beyond our control, but nonetheless have influence over all our societies…

Moon Phases – The phases of the moon recurring each lunar month. 4 phases marked…
New Moon
First Quarter Moon,
Full Moon
Third Quarter Moon.

Equinoxes – The point when the equatorial plane of Planet Earth is exactly parallel with that of the Sun, as the rataional axis of the planet prcesses in it’s own annual cycle. 2 equinoxes in March & September.

Solstices – When the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly point on the horizon during the same process. This marks the beginning of the end of summer or winter depending on the hemisphere you are on. 2 solstices in June & December.

Awareness Days – These are officially organised by persons or organisations for the purposes of celebration, education and action. Celebration of past achievements in a particular area of human endeavour, education about problems and barriers that still exist in the world, and the action needed to be taken by everybody to tackle them. We have filed these under the following (not necessarily mutually exclusive) catagories…

Cultural
Environmental
Health
Human Rights
Professional
Remembrance

General Civil Observances – A ‘catch all’ category of events that are generally observed in a society each year. Some may be ‘officially’ designated by the church or state, whilst the origins of others may be more obscure. Whatever, their observance is part of the civic year. Some may be observed in public on the streets with parties and a sense of ‘joi de vivre’, whilst others it is just at home with family & friends.

Religeous Observances – Major religeous festivals are often public holidays in countries where the religeon is significant. Even when it isn’t, they will be significant in the lives of your friends and colleagues who practice it. The major observances of the following religeons are included in our calendar maps…

Buddhism
Christianity (‘Eastern’)
Christianity (‘Western’)
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism

Note(s)
i) In some religeons the observance begins at sunset on the previous day.

ii) In many religeous observances the date is determined by astronomical factors as well as scripture eg. the first full moon after such and such a date.

United Nations Official Observances – The UN has designated days, weeks, years, and decades for observance to promote international awareness on significant issues and provide a springboard for awareness-raising actions by the organizations & offices of the UN system, governments, civil society, the public and private sectors, schools, universities and just general citizens around the world.

‘National Day’ of ISO3166-1 Country of the World – The day on which an ISO3166-1 designated country publicly celebrates it’s nationhood. It may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (such as a birthday, accession, or removal). The national day is often a public holiday. Many countries celebrate more than one national day, whilst a small number don’t celebrate any. By linking through to Wikipedia articles about the country (and the public holidays if available) we want to celebrate the range of national cultures withinyour circle of family, friends and colleagues. In these days of globalisation us citizens of the world have never mixed together as friends, neighbours, colleagues & lovers to the extent we do now, so anything that increases our mutual understanding of where we’ve all come from and where (and when) we all want to go next, can only be welcomed

ISO3166-1 Countries Of The World

This edition of the map has a further collection of links to additional resources specifically produced by the UK Government for the benefit of UK nationals interested in International Trade & Development to specific countries…

UK Government Help & Services: ISO3166-1 Country – Summary page of links to services provided by the UK Government to it’s citizens if they’re visiting, studying, working or living in the ISO3166-1 country, as well generic links for travelling abroad. It also includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and the country.

UK Government Department for International Trade: ISO3166-1 Country – The Department for International Trade (DIT) helps businesses export and grow into global markets, as well as helping overseas companies locate and grow in the UK. There are local DIT offices based in over 100 UK Embassies throughout the world (links to their social media accounts are also included in the map).

UK Government Guide: Exporting to ISO3166-1 Country – There are market guides for many countries on the new DIT Exporting Is Great website. Guides can also be segmented by market segment as well as geographic location.

Note(s)
i) These online guides are gradually replacing the downloadable guide documents previously produced by the DIT, which have been marked as ‘withdrawn from publication’. However the program is not yet complete so in a few places the link is to the old guide.

UK Government Guide: Overseas Business Risk – ISO3166-1 Country – Information for UK businesses on how to identify and mitigate security and political risks when trading overseas with the specific country.

UK Science & Innovation Network: ISO3166-1 Country – The UK is a global leader in science and innovation. International collaboration is essential to maintaining the excellence of the UK’s research base and the competitive advantage of our innovative businesses, for filling capability gaps and for ensuring value by leveraging international resources. Maintaining our science excellence (and our reputation) and supporting innovation ensures the UK is a partner of choice, and helps UK companies with ambitions for rapid global growth. The Science and Innovation Network (SIN) has approximately 100 officers in over 40 countries and territories around the world building partnerships and collaborations on science and innovation. SIN officers work with the local science and innovation community in support of UK policy overseas, leading to mutual benefits to the UK and the host country.

UK Science and Innovation Network Country Snapshot: ISO3166-1 Country – This provides information on the local Science and Innovation landscape, UK priorities and successes. It offers a snapshot of information under the headings: Science & Innovation Landscape; UK Science & Innovation, and Science and Innovation Network recent success stories and future activities. There is also a list of Science and Innovation Network contacts for further enquiries.

UK Government Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: DFID ISO3166-1 Country – Summary of the UK’s development relationship with the ISO3166-1 country, the responce to opportunities and challenges, what is being achieved and who the UK are working with.

Note(s)
i) The Department for International Development (DFID) closed on 2 September 2020 and merged with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to create the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

FCDO Development Tracker: ISO3166-1 Country – The Development Tracker allows you to find and explore detailed information on international development and humanitarian projects funded by the UK Government in IS)3166-1 countries. It is built using the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard, which is an international standard for international development data and allows ready comparison of information from different donors as well as data from other parts of government responsible for Official Development Assistance (ODA). The goal is to be able to use open data to trace the delivery of aid from donor to beneficiary, helping to maximise aid effectiveness. The site also shows mapping of international development projects at regional, national and sub-national level.

FCDO International Development Funding Finder Tool: ISO3166-1 Country – The funding finder tool is to help potential applicants to view, sort and filter UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding opportunities, across all UK government departments. Each funding call will include a high level overview and information on how to apply.

FCDO Research for Development Outputs: ISO3166-1 Country – Searchable library of outputs from DFID funded research projects and programmes related to the ISO3166-1 country.

General Note(s)
i) All knowledge resources linked to in our collections are freely available in the public domain.

ii) Not all of the knowledge resources listed above exist for all ISO3166-1 countries. This is especially true for non-sovereign states, which may be fully autonomous or semi autonomous from the home state, or may be a fully integrated part of it. At the very least though there should be a WikiVoyage entry.

iii) Specialised resource collections like this should be used in conjunction with those in the General & Geographic link collections, some of which are attached to the ISO3166-1 Country seed branch. The full range of links in these collections are to be found in the latest ISO3166-1 Countries of the World General & Geographic Knowledge Atlas.

iv) All knowledge resource link collection sub-branches are tagged with the ‘RESOURCE – Owner’ index marker tag.

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