JANUARY
- Race meetings are held at Newmarket, Gatwick, Windsor and elsewhere
- Pheasant shooting closes at the end of the month
FEBRUARY
- Sandown Park races in Surrey
- Quorn Hunt in Leicestershire
- The Waterloo Cup–the premiere event of the hare-coursing year
MARCH
- The Grand National, the most valuable National Hunt horse race in the world
APRIL
- Parliament adjourns for Whitsuntide
MAY
- Private View at the Royal Academy, the traditional starting signal of the London season
- Court drawing rooms
- First night of Covent Garden’s opera season
JUNE
- The Derby
- The Fourth of June at Eton
- Ascot Week
- Fete & gymkhana at the Ranelagh Club
JULY
- Cricket matches at Lord’s; Harrow vs Eton, Oxford vs Cambridge
- Henley
- Goodwood race-meeting
AUGUST
- Cowes week
- Glorious Twelfth, grouse hunting on the moors of Scotland
- Stag-hunting season begins in Devon
SEPTEMBER
- Partridge season begins
- Scottish social season in Edinburgh
- Cubbing begins with the Beadle Hounds
OCTOBER
- Cubbing in Ireland
- Aristocratic weddings in London
NOVEMBER
- Hunting season begins
- Country Ball season
DECEMBER
- Christmas in the country
- Boxing Day
- Twelfth Night celebrations
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