Shahrivar

{{Infobox month

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| calendar = Solar Hijri calendar

| num = 6

| days = 31

| season = Summer

| gregorian = August–September

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| prev_month = Mordad

| next_month = Mehr

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Shahrivar ({{langx|fa|شهریور}}, {{IPA|fa|ʃæhɾiːˈvæɾ}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.jahanshiri.ir/fa/en/vocab-months-seasons.php|title = Months and Seasons - Persian Vocabulary|date = 2014|accessdate = September 8, 2014|website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}) is the sixth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. Shahrivar has thirty-one days. It begins in August and ends in September by the Gregorian calendar.{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}} The Afghan Persian name is Sonbola; in Pashto it is Waǵay.

Shahrivar is the third and final month of summer. It is followed by Mehr.

The name of the month comes from the Zoroastrian deity Kshatra Vairya.

Events

26 - 1299 - The American Professional Football Association, later the National Football League, officially begins operations with 14 teams. The league began with Ralph Hay assuming the league's leadership before handing over to Native American athlete Jim Thorpe who became the league's first Commissioner (then President).
9 - 1302 - Great Kantō earthquake in Japan
9 - 1318 - Invasion of Poland, beginning of Second World War in Central and Western Europe
25 -1318 - Soviet invasion of Poland begins
1 - 1324 - King Michael's Coup
18 - 1324 - 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état
11 - 1324 - Surrender of Japan
9 - 1336 - Independence of the Federation of Malaya proclaimed.
25 - 1342 - Proclamation of Malaysia
26 - 1383 - 1984 South Asian Games opens
1 - 1368 - Baltic Way demonstrations in the Soviet Union.
20 - 1380 - September 11 attacks
11 - 1383 - Beslan school siege in North Ossetian Autonomous Republic, Russia
23 - 1387 - Delhi bombings, India
5 (- 10) - 1391 - 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, in Tehran, Iran.{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}}
30 - 1392 - Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya
22 - 1397 - Merrimack Valley gas explosions, Massachusetts, United States

Births

01 - 359 - Ibn sina
05 - 243 - Abu Bakr al-Razi
30 - 1328 - Ahdieh, Iranian singer
18 - 1362 - Edwin Jackson, American baseball player, Olympic silver medalist

Deaths

20 - 1392 - Abdolmohammad Ayati, Iranian scholar, translator, and writer.
17 - 1401 - Elizabeth II
25 - 1401 - Mahsa Amini

Observances

Day of the National Flag (Ukraine), Black Ribbon Day and Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romania and Moldova) - 1-2 Shahrivar
Independence Day of Ukraine - 2-3 Shahrivar
Day of Combat Against British Colonialism - 3 Shahrivar
Cincture of the Theotokos, Independence Day (Malaysia) - 8/9 Shahrivar
Beginning of the Indiction-Ecclesiastical Year of the Eastern Orthodox Churches - 10 Shahrivar
Victory over Japan Day - 11-12 Shahrivar
Nativity of the Theotokos - 16 or 17 Shahrivar
Enkutatash - 20-21 Shahrivar
Feast of the Cross - 23-24 Shahrivar
Mexican Independence Day and Malaysia Day - 25 Shahrivar
United States Air Force Day and Chilean Independence Day - 27-28 Shahrivar
Chilean Army Day - 28-29 Shahrivar

References

Category:Months of the Iranian calendar