Lets be honest, there’s not a lot to do at my job during the summer. One thing I pondered recently was that it’s odd that Canada Day, the US Independence Day, and Bastille Day all fall in early July. That made me wonder if it’s a trend for other countries as well. So thankfully Wikipedia has a list of Independence Days around the world that I could use to create this graph. Clearly there is something about summer that makes for a good time to revolt. I don’t want to be too environmentally determinist here but I guess it makes sense that you would rather undertake a revolution in the summer than the winter. Given, not all of these independences are the result of revolutions, but you know.
ETA: I mapped the dates of independence by season (I couldn’t do more than 6 groups so I couldn’t do it by month). It’s here:
http://www.batchgeo.com/map/edece224f99cf0474a6ad2f2ce464616
No real pattern evident.
