Public holidays where you live

[Hitro]

Well, which days in the year are public holidays where you live and for what reason?

Here it are:

• New Year, January 1st
• Good Friday
• Easter Monday (and Easter Sunday, but Sunday's free anyway)
• Labour Day, May 1st
• Ascension Day
• Whitsuntide/Pentecost (Sunday and Monday)
• Day of German Unification, October 3rd
• 1st Christmas Day, December 25th
• 2nd Christmas Day, December 26th

So a maximum of nine real holidays (thus without Sundays) overall.
How about where you live?

 

[G-Man]

(Dates are for this year, as holidays are by the hebrew calender and therefore their dates change a bit each year)
There's the holidays period, in september and october usually -
- New year + Gdalia Fast (sep 26-29)
- Yom Kipur (oct 6)
- Sukot + Simhat Torah (oct 11-18)

The rest are:
- Rabin memorial day (nov 6)*
- Hanuka (dec 20-27)
- Purim (march 7-8)
- Passover + Isru Hag (april 6-13)
- holocaust memorial day (april 18)
- Victims of Israel's campaigns and terror victims memorial day (april 25)
- Independence day (april 26)
- Lag Baomer (may 9)
- Jerusalem day (may 19)*
- Shavuot + Isru Hag (may 25-27)

*these days are more of important dates than really national holidays.

 

[Yoda Power]

cool my birthday is a Jewish holyday

 

[De Lorimier]

A nice new topic...goodie!

-New Year’s Day (january 1st)
-Good Friday
-Easter Monday
-Victoria Day (somewhere in may, couldn't care less...we actually call it Dollar day in Québec as an hommage to one french soldier from the 1600's who saved the colony)
-Québec national holiday (june 24th)
-Canada Day (july 1st, also called moving day here)
-Labour Day (september 6)
-Thanksgiving (october 11)
-Remembrance Day (november 11)
-Christmas Day (december 25th)
-Boxing Day (december 26th)

 

[Aphex_Twin]

December 25, 26 - Christmas
January 1,2 - New Year
3 days for Easter (Orthodox)
May 1st - Labour day
December 1st - Union day

 

[G-Man]

Originally posted by Yoda Power
cool my birthday is a Jewish holyday

The Rabin memorial day isn't a jewish holiday but an Israeli one.

 

[Hitro]

Originally posted by Aphex_Twin
December 25, 26 - Christmas
3 days for Easter (Orthodox)

You have Orthodox Easter and non-Orthodox Christmas?

 

[Yoda Power]

Originally posted by G-Man


The Rabin memorial day isn't a jewish holiday but an Israeli one.

ok, sorry then

 

[jpowers]

As I live in the Postmodern World, here are the holidays:
Feast of Maximum Occupancy, as needed
Kwanzaa, Dec 26-Jan 1
Festivus, Dec 23
Darwin Day, Feb 12
Summer Solstice, June 21
Winter Solstice, Dec 21
Autum Equinox, Sep 21
Vernal Equinox, Mar 21
Murray O'Hair Day, Apr 13
HumanLight, Dec 20

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Originally posted by Hitro

You have Orthodox Easter and non-Orthodox Christmas?

Easter dates are different with the Catholic/Protestant and the Orthodox. I think they are a week off.

 

[Hitro]

Yeah, but Christmas too, I thought. The Orthdox' are using the old calendar.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Originally posted by Hitro
Yeah, but Christmas too, I thought. The Orthdox' are using the old calendar.

There are a few (very few) who stick to the old Julian calendar. The Romanian Orthodox Church has shifted to the Gregorian Calendar for close to 100 years now. But now since I've cast away my Christian faith, I am left with just the holidays (and those delicious Easter pies)

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Originally posted by Yoda Power
cool my birthday is a Jewish holyday

My birthday is also a memorial day.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

In the United States we have:

-- New Year's Day (Jan 1)
-- Martin Luther King Day (Third Monday in Jan)
-- President's Day (Third Monday in Feb)
-- Memorial Day (last Monday in May)
-- Flag Day (June 14)
-- Independence Day (July 4)
-- Labor Day (first Monday in September)
-- Veteran's Day (November 11)
-- Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Tuesday in Nov)
-- Christmas Day (December 25)

I still call Veteran's Day "Armistice Day", though, which is its original name.

 

[Alice]

Interesting topic.
These are our National Holidays in Argentina (sorry, not sure about some of the translations)

New Year - Jan 1st
War Veteran Day - Malvinas Day - April 2nd
Good Friday
Labor Day - May 1st
Primer Gobierno Patrio - May 25th
National Flag Day - June 20th
Independence Day - July 9th
San Martin Day - Aug 17th
Colombus Day - Oct
Inmaculada Concepción de María - Dec 8th
Christmas - Dec 25th

Also, Good Thursday, Jewish New Year, and Yom Kipur are 'optional holidays'

 

[AVN]

In the Netherlands we have

New Year, January 1st

Easter Monday (and Easter Sunday, but Sunday's free anyway)

Queens Day, April 30th

Ascension Day

Whitsuntide/Pentecost (Sunday and Monday)

1st Christmas Day, December 25th

2nd Christmas Day, December 26th

And once in the five years (years ending on a 5 or 0) Liberation Day.

So in most years we only have 7 real holidays

 

[Yoshimune]

2003 National Holidays in Japan:

Jan 01 -- New Year's Day.
Jan (13) -- Coming of Age day or Young Adults Day.
Feb 11 -- Founding of the Country Day.
Mar 21 -- Spring Equinox.
Apr 29 -- Nature Day. (used to be Emperor Showa's Birthday)
May 03 -- Constitution Day.
May 04 -- People's Day.
May 05 -- Children's Day.
Jul (21) -- Monday after Day of the Sea or Marine Day.
Sep 15 -- Respect for the Elders Day.
Sep 23 -- Autumn Equinox.
Oct (13) -- School Sports Day.
Nov 03 -- Culture Day.
Nov 24 -- Monday after Labor Thanksgiving Day.
Dec 23 -- Emperor's Birthday.

Parenthesised dates change each year.
If a certain holiday falls on a weekend, the next Monday becomes "Monday after (holiday) Day" and is a national holiday. No cheating of holidays in this country!
Most schools and corporations give students and employees a few extra days off between April 29 and May 6, what is known as Golden Week, in order to create a weeklong holiday.

I swear I made none of these up.

 

[MCdread]

1st january: New Year's Day

Carnival, a tuesday (not an official holiday, but every year the government declares it as such...

Easter Friday and Sunday

25th April: Liberty Day, celebrates the Revolution of 1974 that overrun the dicatorial regime

1st May: Labour Day

10th June: Portugal's Day, the day of the death of the epic poet Luís de Camões in 10th June of 1580

5th October: Republic's day, after the 5th October 1910 when the last king was dethroned and the I Republic impolemented.

1st November: All Saints Day

1st December: Restoration Day, after 1st december 1640 when the portuguese re-gained independence after 60 years under the rulling of the kings of Spain

8th December: a religious holiday, Imaculate Conception or whatever it's translated.

25th December: Christmas

Also religious holidays that I can't remember what they are about, one in May (or June) and another in August.

 

[conormcgarry]

in cat town our holidays are...

every tuesday - cat killing tuesday

once every summer - cat mincing day

but the rest of the holidays are pretty much the same as the rest of the world

 

[Archer 007]

Some people in my region celebrate Jefferson Davis' birthday.