Fireworks at the Eiffel Tower, Paris, Bastille Day 2006.
Fireworks at the Eiffel Tower, Paris, Bastille Day 2006.
Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countrie s to the Frenc h National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (The Natio nal Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourte enth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-pr ison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which p receded the First Republic, dur ing the French Revolution. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France. The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July , on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, French officials an d foreign guests.[ 1][2]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:National Acadian Day (August 15th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/National-Acadian-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260815 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-National-Acadian-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The National Acadian Day is observed in Canada each year on Au gust 15, celebrating the Assumption of Mary. It was during th e first National Convention of the Acadians held at Memramcook, New Brunswick, in 1881 that the Acadian leaders received the mandate t o set the date of this celebration.
The choice of the date was the ob ject of a debate at the convention between those wishing for Acadians to ce lebrate June 24, Saint-Jean-Baptist e Day, and National Day of French Canadians since 1834 and National Holiday of Quebec si nce 1977, and others wishing the celebration to occur on August 15.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:All Saints' Day (November 1st, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/All-Saints-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-All-Saints-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:All Saints' Day (in the Roman Catholic Church officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hall ows or Hallowmas[3] ), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebr ated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. In the Western calendar it is the day after Halloween and the day before All Souls' Day.
In Western Christian theology, the d ay commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. It is a national holiday in many historically Catholic countr ies. In the Catholic Church and many Anglican churches, the n ext day specifically commemorates the departed faithful who have not yet be en purif ied and reached heaven. Christians who celebrate All Saints' Day and Al l Souls' Day do so in the fundamental belief that there is a prayerful spir itual bond between those in purgatory (the 'Churc h Suffering'), those in heaven (the 'church triumphant'), and the living (the 'church mili tant'). Other Christian traditions define, remember and respond to the saints in different ways; for example, in the Met hodist Church, the word "saints" refers to all Christians a nd therefore, on All Saint's Day, the Church Univ ersal, as well as the deceased members of a local congregation, are honoured and remembered.[2][4]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Armistice Day (November 11th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Armistice-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Armistice-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Armistice Day (which overlaps with Remembrance D ay) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France , for the cessation of hostilities on the Weste rn Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the mor ning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the cea se fire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, espec ially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Otto man Empire.
The date was declared a national holiday in many alli ed nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were kille d during war. An exception is Italy, where the end of the war is commemorat ed on 4 November, the day of the Armistice of Villa Giusti.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Christmas (December 25th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Christmas DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261225 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Christmas-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Cr
9;stesmæsse, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemora
tion of the birth of Jesus Christ,[5][6
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s a religious and cultural holiday by billions of peopl
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ristian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.[7]<
/a> Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9][10] is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians,[1][11][12] and is an integral part
of the Christmas and holiday season.
The precise year of Jesus' birth, which some histo
rians place between 7 and 2 BC, is unknown.[13]
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first d ay of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as th e Julian calendar used in ancient Rome. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year's Day is the close st thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated wi th firew orks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the J ulian calendar currently corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian c alendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day is a postal holiday in the United States.[1]
The Romans dedicated this day to Jan us, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. After Julius Caesar reform ed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate vo ted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC < span>[2] in honor of his life and his institu tion of the new rationalized calendar.[3] The month originally owes its name to th e deity Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan traditions. Some have suggested this occurred in 153 BC, when it was stipulated that the two annual consuls (after whose names the years were identified) entered into off ice on that day, though no consensus exists on the matter.[4] Dates in March, coin ciding with the spring equinox, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns runni ng from January to December.[citation needed]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Easter (Western) (March 28th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Easter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270328 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Easter-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Easter (Old Englis
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Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in rel ation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.[8] Ecclesiastically, th e equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, as tronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is n ot necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefor e varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity< /a> bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March co rresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian c alendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Labour Day (May 1st, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Labour-Day-May1 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270501 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Labour-Day-May1-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday to celeb rate the economic and social achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight- hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours fo r recreation, and eight hours for rest.
Celebrating the Australian labour movement, the Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the various state a nd territory governments, and so varies considerably. It is the first M onday in October in the Australian Capital Te rritory, New South Wales and South Australia. In both < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In Western Australia, Lab our Day is the first Monday in March. In both Queensland and the No rthern Territory, it is the first Monday in May.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Ascension Day (May 6th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Ascension-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270506 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Ascension-Day-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vu lgate Latin Acts 1:9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu) is the Chr istian teaching found in the New Testament that the res urrected Jesus was taken up to heaven in his resurr ected body,[Acts 1:9-11] in the presence of eleven of his apostle s, occurring 40 days after the resurrection. In the biblical narrative, an angel te lls the watching disciples that Jesus' second coming will take place in the same man ner as his ascension.[1]
The Ascension of Jesus is professed in the N icene Creed and in the Apostles' Creed. The Ascension implies Jesus' humanity being taken into Heaven.[2] The Feast of the Ascension, celebrated on the 40th day of Easter (always a Thursday), is one of the chief feasts of the C hristian year.[2] The feast dates back at least to the lat er 4th century, as is widely attested.[2]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T180237Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Victory Day (Europe) (May 8th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Victory-Day-Europe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270508 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Victory-Day-Europe-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Victory in Europe Day — known as V-E Day or VE Day — commemorates 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries; 7 May 1945), the date when the World War II < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allies formally accepted the uncon ditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of A dolf Hitler's Third Reich. The formal surrender of the occupying Germ an forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed su icide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Ge rmany was authorized by his replacement, President of Germany Karl D& ouml;nitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 M ay in Reims, France, and ratified on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.
Upon the defeat of the Nazi Germany army, celebrations erupted throughout the western world. From Mosco w to New York, people cheered. In the United Kingdom, more than one m illion people celebrated in the streets to mark the end of the European par t of the war. In London, crowds massed in Trafalgar Square and up The Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompani ed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the balcony of the Palace before the cheering crowds. Prince ss Elizabeth< /a> (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and her sister Princess Margaret were allowed to wander anonymously among the crowds and take part in the celebra tions.[1]
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