How to Use This Calendar

Important-days questions are pure recall, which makes them the highest return-on-effort topic in this entire syllabus — there is no reasoning required, only correct recall of a date and a one-line significance. This book is organised strictly month-by-month so you can revise in the same order the calendar runs.

Memory hook: Anchor each day to something you already know happened on it — a birth anniversary (Teachers' Day = Radhakrishnan's birthday), a historic event (Kargil Vijay Diwas = end of the Kargil War), or a founding moment (World Health Day = founding of the WHO). A date with a story attached is far easier to recall under exam pressure than a bare date.

Where a UN-designated day carries a different theme each year, this book gives the permanent, recurring significance rather than a theme that changes annually — verify the current year's theme separately closer to your exam if the question paper is likely to test it.