Editing August 1 (section)

==Holidays and observances==
*[[Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)]]
*[[Armed Forces Day (China)]] or Anniversary of the Founding of the [[People's Liberation Army]] (People's Republic of China)
*[[Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day]] ([[Azerbaijan]])
*[[Emancipation Day]] is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833]] came into effect which abolished [[Chattel Slavery|chattel slavery]] in the [[British Empire]]:<ref>{{cite book|author1-link=Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie |last1=Kerr-Ritchie |first1=Jeffrey R. · |title=Rites of August First Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World |date=2011 |publisher=LSU Press |isbn=9780807143643 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-aPYCwAAQBAJ}}</ref>
**Emancipation Day is a public holiday in [[Barbados]], [[Bermuda]], [[Guyana]], [[Jamaica]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]]
*Christian [[Calendar of saints|feast day]]:
**[[Abgar V]] of Edessa ([[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syrian Church]])
**[[Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori]]
**[[Æthelwold of Winchester]]
**[[Bernard Võ Văn Duệ]] (one of [[Vietnamese Martyrs]])
**[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Gerhard Hirschfelder]]
**[[Eusebius of Vercelli]]
**[[Exuperius of Bayeux]]
**[[Felix of Girona]]
**[[Liberation of Saint Peter|Peter Apostle in Chains]]
**[[Procession of the Cross]] and the beginning of [[Dormition of the Theotokos#Dormition fast|Dormition Fast]] ([[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]]) 
**[[Woman with seven sons|The Holy Maccabees]]
**[[August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
*[[Minden Day]] ([[United Kingdom]])
*[[National Day (Benin)|National Day]], celebrates the independence of [[Benin]] from France in 1960.
*[[Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga]] ([[Tonga]])
*[[Public holidays in the Democratic Republic of the Congo|Parents' Day]] ([[Democratic Republic of the Congo]])
*[[Statehood Day (Colorado)]]
*[[Swiss National Day]], commemorates [[Switzerland]] becoming a single unit in 1291.
*The beginning of [[autumn]] observances in the Northern hemisphere and [[Spring (season)|spring]] observances in the Southern hemisphere ([[Wheel of the Year|Neopagan Wheel of the Year]]):
**[[Lughnasadh]] in the Northern hemisphere, [[Imbolc]] in the Southern hemisphere; traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. ([[Gaels]], [[Ireland]], [[Scotland]], [[Neopagans]])
**[[Lammas]] ([[England]], [[Scotland]], [[Neopagans]])
**[[Pachamama Raymi]] ([[Quechuan]] in [[Ecuador]] and [[Peru]])
*[[Victory Day]] ([[Cambodia]], [[Laos]], [[Vietnam]])
*[[World Scout Scarf Day]]
*[[Yorkshire Day]] ([[Yorkshire]], [[England]])