The Queen's Birthday Honours (or King's Birthday Honours) is a part of the British honours system

British honours system

The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories...

, being a civic occasion on the celebration of the Queen's Official Birthday

Queen's Official Birthday

The Queen's Official Birthday is the selected day on which the birthday of the monarch of Commonwealth realms is officially celebrated in Commonwealth countries and in Fiji, which is now a republic. It is an invention of the early 20th century...

 in which new members of most Commonwealth Realms honours are named. The awards are presented by the reigning monarch or head of state, currently Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...

. All Royal honours conferred by Her Majesty are made official by publication in supplements to the London Gazette

London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published...

. The lists are also published by the quality broadsheet newspapers, most notably The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

. Honours have been awarded on the monarch's birthday since at the latest 9th November 1908, the birthday of King Edward VII(1901-1910). After that year the monarch's official birthday was moved to June 1st, 2nd or 3rd., on which date the Birthday Honours lists have subsequently been published.

Queen's Birthday Honours lists

• 1990 Birthday Honours
• 1991 Birthday Honours
• 1992 Birthday Honours
• 1993 Birthday Honours
• 1994 Birthday Honours
• 1995 Birthday Honours
• 1996 Birthday Honours
• 1997 Birthday Honours
  1997 Birthday Honours
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• 1998 Birthday Honours
• 1999 Birthday Honours
  1999 Birthday Honours
  Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in the Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country...
  
  
• 2000 Birthday Honours
  2000 Birthday Honours
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• 2001 Birthday Honours
  2001 Birthday Honours
  Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in the Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country...
  
  
• 2002 Birthday Honours
  2002 Birthday Honours
  -Knight Grand Cross :* Sir Ronald Flanagan, OBE. Lately chief Constable, Police Service for Northern Ireland. For services to Northern Ireland. -Dame Commander :...
  
  
• 2003 Birthday Honours
  2003 Birthday Honours
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• 2004 Birthday Honours
  2004 Birthday Honours
  The Birthday Honours 2004 for the Commonwealth Realms were announced on 12 June 2004 to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2004.The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged firstly by the country whose ministers advised the Queen on the...
  
  
• 2005 Birthday Honours
  2005 Birthday Honours
  The Birthday Honours 2005 for the Commonwealth Realms were announced on 11 June 2005 to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2005.The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged firstly by the country whose ministers advised the Queen on the...
  
  
• 2006 Birthday Honours
• 2007 Birthday Honours
• 2008 Birthday Honours
• 2009 Birthday Honours
• 2010 Birthday Honours
  2010 Birthday Honours
  The Birthday Honours 2010 for the Commonwealth Realms were announced on 7 June 2010 in New Zealand and 12 June 2010 in United Kingdom to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2010.-Knights Bachelor:*Professor John Rex Beddington CMG, for science...
  
  
• 2011 Birthday Honours
  2011 Birthday Honours
  The Birthday Honours 2011 for the Commonwealth Realms were announced on 7 June 2011 in New Zealand and 11 June 2011 in United Kingdom to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2011.-Privy Councillors:...
  
  

See also

• Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada
• Orders, decorations, and medals of Australia
• Orders, decorations, and medals of New Zealand
• Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom