365 Holidays, Festivals and Celebrations
365 Days of Holidays, Festivals and Celebrations
How many times have you heard someone say, "If only today were a holiday."....., " I wish there was a holiday every day"......." Why isn't there a holiday for" ?
There are holidays and festivals for every possible cause, religion, country and festival. Not all holidays are "public". Not all holidays are observed. BUT, there are holidays 365 days a year. Somewhere in the world, there is a holiday for you! Need a break? Take a holiday (if only in your mind). Right here, right now. You don't need to pack a bag unless you decide to take part in the holiday in person.
Never heard of "National Good Teen Day"? Wondering who is thinking on "World Thinking Day"? For many of the holidays, simply click the name and it will take you away, to learn a bit about the holiday. (Stop by often. I will be adding more links to the holidays every week!) But don't forget to come back! There are another 364 days of holidays waiting right here.
If you are intrigued, take a detour and plan your next holiday around a holiday somewhere else in the world.
Right here at Squidoo, every day is a holiday. CELEBRATE!
Photo courtesy of: TingChang
January
2. Port Arthur Day (Australia)
4. World Braille Day & Myanmar/(Burma) Independence Day
5. 12th Night
6. 3 Kings Day
7. Victory Day over the Genocidal Regime ( Cambodia)
8. Tamkarhit -Ashura (Senegal) & Women's Day Greece
9. Peace Agreement Day (Sudan)
10. Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)
11. Independence Day (Morocco) & National Unity Day (Nepal)
12. Japan- Coming of Age Day
13. Old New Year's Eve (Russia)
14. Orthodox New Year
15. Malawi - John Chilembwe Day & Humanitarian Day
17. Liberation Day (Poland)
19. National Popcorn Day (US) & Timket (epiphany) Ethiopia
20. World Religion Day
21. Lady of Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)
22. International Day of Radiant Peace
23. National Pie Day (US)
24. National Compliment Day
25. 101 Dalmations Birthday
26. Australia Day- Republic Day (India)
27. Chocolate Cake Day (US)
28. Serendipity Day (US)
29. Thomas Paine Day
30. Kings Birthday (Jordan)
31. Inspire your Heart with the Arts Day
Photo courtesy of: crabchick
February
1. St. Brigid's Day (Montserrat)
2. Imbolid (Wiccan)
3. Bean Throwing Festival ( Setsubun Japan)
4. Independence Day (Sri Lanka)
5. International Pancake Day
7. Independence Day (Granada )
8. Thaipusan (Malaysia)
9. Tu B'Shvat (Jewish)
10. Plimsoll Day
11. Youth Day (Camaroon) & Independence Anniversary (Vatican City)
12. Extraterritrial Culture Day (New Mexico)
13. Dump your significant jerk day
14. National Have a Heart Day
15. National Day (Serbia)
16. Independence Day (Lithuania)
17. World Human Spirit Day
18, Independence Day (Gambia)
19. International Friendship DayÂ
20. UN World Day for Social Justice
21. Martyr's Day (Bangladesh)
22. World Thinking Day
23. Iwo Jima Day & Fashching (Austria and Germany)
24. Independence Day (Esotonia)
25. National Day (Kuwait)
27. Independence Day (Dominican Republic)
28. National Tooth Fairy Day
Photo courtesy of: Mykl Roventine
March
1. World Book Day & Beer Day (Iceland)
2. Independence Day (Texas)
3. Peace Corps Day
4. Hug a GI Day
5. St. Pirans Day
6. Michalangelo's Birthday
7. Martyr's Day Malawi
8. UN Day for Women's Rights & Intn'l Peace/Int' (Working) Woman's Day
9. St. Francis of Rome Feast Day
11. Holi (Hindu- India)
12. Fiestas de las Fallas (Spain) & Alfred Hitchcock Day
13. a> 1764
14. Pilgrimage to the Dragon Pagoda (Rangoon , Burma)
15. Ides of March
16. Canberra Day (Australia)
17. National Day (Ireland)
18. Awkward Moments Day
19. Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day
20. Vernal Equinox
21. Independence Day (Greece)
22. Emancipation Day (Puerto Rico)
23. National Puppy Day
24. St. Gabriel Feast Day
25. Independence Day (Greece)
26. Independence Day (Bangladesh)
27.Photography Day
28. Teacher's Day (Czech Republic)
29.Youth Day (Taiwan)
30. Vincent Van Gogh's Birthday
31. Culture Day: Pohnpei Micronesia
Photo courtesy of: Frank in Guinea
Now that I have your interest!
See a holiday of interest? Think it would be fun to celebrate the holiday in person? Check out these books to help you plan your trip.
April
2. World Autism Awareness Day
3. National Chocolate Mousse Day
4. Independence Day (Senegal)
5. National Tomb Sweeping Day (Taiwan)
6. Fete of the Little Boats (France)
7. UN World Health Day
8. Birthday of Buddha
9. Martyr's Day (Tunisia)
10. Encourage a young writer day
11. Schmeckfest: German Food Festival
12. Look up at the Sky Day
13. Scrabble Day
14. New Year (Cambodia and Laos)
15. Leonardo Da Vinci's Birthday
16. National Stress Awareness Day
17. Women's Day (Gabon)
18. International Juggler's Day
19. Garlic Day
20. National Pineapple upside down cake day
21. Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Memorial Day (Israel)
22. Earth Day
23. William Shakespeare's BirthdayBorn in 1564.Â
24. Birthday of the Sun - (China)
25. World Malaria Day
26. Hug an Australian Day
27. Freedom Day (South Africa)
28. Hero's Day- (Barbados)
29. World Dance Day
30. National Oatmeal Cookie Day
Photo courtesy of: Gaetan Lee
May
1. Calamity Jane's Birthday 1852 & Beltane Celtic Festival
2. Education Day- (Indonesia)
3. Hug Your Cat Day
4. International Firefighters Day
5. Cinco De Mayo
6. International No Diet Day
7. International Tuba Day
9. Buddha Day
10. Trust your Intuition Day
11. Eat What you want day
12. International Nurses Day
13. I just called to say, "I Love You" Day
14. Birthday of Marshmallow Fluff
15. National Teacher's Day- (South Korea)
16. National Sea Monkey Day
17. Kid's Helping Kid's Day
18. International Museum Day
19. Peace Day
20. Blue Jeans Birthday 1873, Levi Strauss+ Jacob Davis patent
21. Sheep Festival (Camaroon)
22. National Day (Yemen)
23. International Jazz Day
24. Culture Day: Enlightenment Day ( Bulgaria)
25. Prayer for Peace Memorial Day
26. Dracula's Birthday 1897 & Sorry Day (Australia)
27. Mother's Day- (Bolivia)
28. International Day of UN Peacekeepers
29. Ancestor Honor Day
31. World No Tobacco Day
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June
1. Oscar the Grouch's Birthday
2. National Rocky Road Day
3. Tattoo's Birthday in 208 BC
4. Socrate's Birthday 469 BC
5. Hot Air Balloon Day- First Flight 1783
6. National Yo-Yo Day
7. National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
8. Abused Women and Children Awareness Day
9. Donald Duck's Birthday
10. Public Zoo Day
11. Â Great Barrier Reef Discovery DayÂ
12. Valentine's Day (Dia dos Namorados) Brazil
13. International Children's Day
14. Freedom Day- Malawi
15. Go Fly a Kite Day (BF flew kite first time in 1752)
16. International Day of the African Child
18. International Picnic Day
19. Garfields Birthday
21. Summer Solstice
22. National Chocolate Eclair Day
23. Mid-Summers Eve
24. National Forgiveness Day
25. LEON Day -Â LEON is NOEL spelled backwards. It means six months until Christmas.
26. International Day against Drug Abuse and Trafficking
27. Mixed Race Day- Brazil
28. Birthday of the God of War (Kuan Kung) Taiwan
29. International Gay and Lesbian Parade Day
30. Burning of 3 Fires - France
Photo courtesy of: Steve Weaver
3 More months of ideas...I can see the wheels turning!
Holidays? Who needs them?
Are you happy to know there are holidays for every day of the year?
July
1. Canada Day
2. Madonna di Provenzano Festival - Italy
3. Festival of Cerridwen ( Greece)* Celtic Festival
4. Tom Sawyer Fence Painting Day ( our Independence Day)
5. Tynwald Day- Isle of Man
6. Festival of Buddha's Eyetooth begins Sri Lanka
7. Ice Cream Cone Day
8. Lindenfest- Rhineland, Germany
9. Independence Day - Argentina
10. Independence Day- Bahamas
11. Vegetarian Day
12. National Pecan Pie
13. O-bon Festival of Soul's Japan
14. Bastille DayFrance
15. Be a Dork Day
16. International Juggling Day
17. Independence Day- Norway
19. New Friends Day
20. Independence Day -Columbia
21. National crème Brulee Day
22. Feast Day St. Mary Magdalene - International
23. National Day (Egypt)
24. Fiesta de Santiago (Peru)
25. Yalong Cultural Festival Tibet
26. Independence Day - Liberia and Maldives
27. Bugs Bunny's Birthday
28. Hamburger Day
29. Maitresse Silverine (Vodou) Festival - Haiti
30. National Cheesecake Day
Photo courtesy of: sashafatcat
August
1. Fiesta Day- Nicaragua & Homowo: Hooting at Hunger Ghana
2. Virgin of the Angels Day- Costa Rica
3.International Forgiveness Day
4. Independence Day- Jamaica
5.National Children's Day Tuvalu:
6. Halfway point of the Summer (12:08 PM EDT)
7. Feast of 'Aut-Yeb, Personification of Female Joy Egypt
8. Independence Day- Bhutan
9. Book Lovers Day & International Day of the World's Indigenous People
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11. Montserrat Annual Pilgrimage - Montserrat
12. Chinese Valentine's Day
14. La Torta dei Fieschi*Â Italy
15. Our Lady of the Monte Festival - Portugal
16. Independence Day - Gabon and Cyprus
17. Feast of the Hungry Ghosts China
18. Women's Voting Rights Day
19. Apple Spas - Russia
20. National Homeless Animals Day
21. Christopher Robin's Birthday
22. Be an Angel Day- to encourage acts of kindness
23. International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
24. Independence Day - Ukraine
25. Independence Day - Uruguay
26. Make Your Own Luck Day
27. Mother Theresa's Birthday 1910
28. Dream Day
30. Frankenstein's Day in honor of Mary Shelley 1797
31. White Rose Day - Australia in honor of Princess Diana - Independence Day Malaysia
Photo courtesy of: Foxtongue
September
1. Pink Cadillac Day * when Elvis bought for his mother! 1956
2. Onam Festival India
3. Independence Day Qatar
4. Krishna Janmaashtami(Hinduism)
5. Cheese Pizza Day ? Babe Ruth Hit Homerun #1
6. Independence Day Swaziland
7. First Parkash - for Sikkism
8. International Literacy Day
9. Teddy Bear Day
10. Hot Dog Day
11. Rastafarian New Years Day
12. Chocolate Milkshake Day
13. Scooby Doo First day the cartoon debuted
14. National Cream Filled Donut Day
15. International Day of Democracy
16. Independence Day- Mexico
17. Apple Dumpling Day
18. Independence Day Chile
19. International Talk like a Pirate Day
20. National Punch Day
21. International Day of Peace
22. Hobbit Day
23. Shubun No Hi autumnal equinox day Japan
24. World's longest kiss recorded - 17 days, 10.5 hours, September 24, 1984
25. Kamarampaka Day Rwanda
26. European Day of Languages Fight Procrastination Day
28. Confucious Birthday
29. **St. Michael and All Angels ( Michaelmas,)
30. Safety pin invented
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Independence Day!
Take a trip to experience Independence day somewhere else. In every month there is an Independence Day celebrated somewhere in the world. Experiencing an Independence Day celebration in a different country is a great way to gain true cultural understanding.
The excitement is building. Your next holiday is near!
October
OCTOBER (National Dessert Month)
2. Charlie Brown and Snoopy's Birthday
3. Child Health Day
4. Balloons around the world day
6. *Mad Hatter Day
7. World Smile Day
8. Bring your teddy bear to work day
9. National Dessert Day
10. World Mental Health Day
11. Coming out Day
12. Discovery Day in Bahamas
13. World Egg Day
14. Bald is Beautiful Day
15. National Poetry Day
16. World Food Day & Dictionary Day
17. Deepavali India/Singapore/Malaysia
18. Boost your brain day
19. Mother Theresa Day Albania
20. Kenyatta Day- Kenya
21. Cirio de Nazare (Brazil)
22. Make a difference day
23. Chulalongkorn Day Thailand
24. United Nations Day
25. National Denim Day & World Pasta Day
26. National Day - Austria & Chung Yeung Festival (Hong Kong)
27. National Tell a Story Day (Scotland and England)
28.National Chocolate Day
29. Republic Day - Turkey
30. Mischief Night
31. National Unicef Day
Photo courtesy of: David Sifry