John the Baptist (Hebrew: יו&#
1495;נן המטביל, Yoḥ
;anan ha-mmaṭbil, Arabic: &
#1610;حيى بن زكري
75; Yahya ibn Zakariya[1], Aramaic: ܝܘ
818;ܢܢ Yoḥanan, Greek: Ὁ Ἅ&gamma
;ιος/Τίμιος Ἐν
δοξος Προφήτ&et
a;ς, Πρόδρομος &kapp
a;αὶ Βαπτιστής Ἰ&om
ega;άννης Ho Hagios/Timios Endoxos, Profetes,
Prodromos, kai Baptistes Ioannes)
[2][3][
4][5] (c. 6 BC – c. AD
30-36) was an itinerant preacher[6] and a major religious figu
re[7
] mentioned in the Canonical g
ospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus<
sup id="cite_ref-bibleverse.7C.7CLuke.7C1:36.7CNRSV_7-0" class="reference">
[8] who led
a movement of baptism at the Jordan River.[
9] Some scholars maintain that he was influen
ced by the E
ssenes, who were semi-ascetic, expected an apocalypse, and pr
acticed rituals corresponding strongly with baptism,[10] although there is no dire
ct evidence to substantiate this.[11] John is regarded as a prophet in Christian
ity, Islam,[12] the Bahá'í Faith,[<
/span>13] and Mandaeism.
Most biblical scholars agree that John baptized Jesus at " Bethany beyond the Jordan," by wading into the water with Jesus from the ea stern bank.[14] [15]< /a> John the Baptist is also mentioned by Jewish historian Jo sephus, in Aramaic Matthew, in Pseudo-Clementine, and in the Qur'an.[16] Accoun ts of John in the New Testament appear compatible with the account in < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus.[17] There are no other historical accounts of John the Baptist from around th e period of his lifetime.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T111653Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Statehood Day (July 6th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Statehood-Day-LT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260706 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Statehood-Day-LT-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Statehood Day is an annual public holiday in Lithuania celebrated on July 6 to commemor ate the coronation in 1253 of Mindaugas as the first and only King of Lithuania. The exact day of this event is disputable a nd was chosen according to the hypothesis of Edvardas Gudavičius, formulated in 1989. The day has officially been celeb rated since 1991.
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:20260610T111653Z 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:20260610T111653Z 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
] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3][4] a
s a religious and cultural holiday by billions of peopl
e around the world. A feast central to the
Ch
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:20260610T111653Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Independence Day (Lithuania) (February 16th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Independence-Day-LT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270216 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Independence-Day-LT-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The Council of Lithuania (Lithuanian : Lietuvos Taryba, German: Litauischer Landesrat, Polish: Rada Litewska), aft er July 11, 1918 The State Council of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Liet uvos Valstybės Taryba), was convened at the Vilnius Conf erence that took place between September 18 and 23, 1917. The council w as granted the executive authority of the Lithuanian people and was entrust ed to establish an independent Lithuanian state.[1] On Feb ruary 16, 1918, the members of the council signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania, and declared Lithuania a n independent state based on democratic principles. The council managed to esta blish the proclamation of independence despite the presence of German troops in the country until the autumn of 1918. The council continued its efforts un til the Constituent Assembly of Lit huania (Lithuanian: St eigiamasis Seimas) first met on May 15, 1920.
After the la st Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 179 5, Lithuania had become part of the Russian Empire. During the 19th c entury, both the Poles and the Lithuanians attempted to restore their indep endence. They rebelled during the November Uprising in 1830 and the January Uprising in 1863, but the first realistic opportunit y came about during World War I. In 1915, Germany occupied Lithuania as its troops marched towards Russia. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, opportunities for independence opened up. Germany, avoiding direct annexation, tried to find a middle pat h that would involve some kind of union with Germany.[2] In the light of upcoming peace negotiations with Russia, the Germans agreed to allow the Vilnius Conference, hoping that it would proclaim that the Lithu anian nation wanted to be detached from Russia and wished for a closer rela tionship with Germany.[3] However, the conference, held between Septem ber 18 and 23, 1917, adopted a resolution that an independent Lithuania sho uld be established and that a closer relationship with Germany would depend on whether it recognized the new state.[3] On September 21, the atten dees at the conference elected a 20-member Council of Lithuania to establis h this resolution. The German authorities did not allow that resolution to be published, but they did permit the council to proceed.[3] The autho rities censored the Council's newspaper, Lietuvos aidas (Ec ho of Lithuania), preventing the Council from reaching a wider public a udience.[1] The Vilnius Conference also resolved that a co nstituent assembly should be elected by popular vote as soon as possible. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T111653Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Restoration Day (March 11th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Restoration-Day-LT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270311 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Restoration-Day-LT-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:
The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuani a or Act of March 11 (Lithuanian: Aktas dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės at statymo) was an independence declaration by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic adop ted on March 11, 1990. Signed by all members of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian S SR, the act emphasized restoration and legal continuity of the interwar-period Lithuania, which was occupied by the USSR and lost independence in June 1940. It was the first time that a Union Republic declared independence from the dissolving Soviet Union.
After the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century, Lithuania was part of the Russian Empire. In the af termath of the Russian Revolu tion of 1917, the Council of Lithuania, chaired by Jonas Basanavičius, proclaimed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on February 1 6, 1918. Lithuania enjoyed independence for two decades. In August 1939, Sovi et Union and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. The Baltic states (Li thuania, Latvia, and Estonia) were assigned to Russia and subsequently were occupied in June 1940 and converted into soviet socialis t republics. The Soviet authorities undertook Sovietization policies: nationalization of all private property, collectivization of agricu lture, suppression of the Catholic Church, and imposition of totali tarian control. The armed anti-Soviet partisans were liqu idated by 1953. Approximately 130,000 Lithuanians, dubbed "enemies of the people", were deported into Siberia (see June deportation and March depor tation). After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, Soviet Union ado pted de-Stalinization policies and ended mass persecutions. Nonvi olent resistance continued both in Lithuania and among Lithuanian diaspora. These movements were secret, illegal, and more focused on social issues, h uman rights, and cultural affairs rather than political demands.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T111653Z 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
h: Ēostre) or Pas
cha (Greek: Πάσχ&
alpha;, Paskha; Aramaic: פֶּסחא Pasḥa
; from Hebrew: פ&
#1462;ּסַח Pesa
717;)[1
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:20260610T111653Z 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:20260610T111653Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Mother's Day (MayS1) (May 2nd, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Mothers-Day-MayS1 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270502 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Mothers-Day-MayS1-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Mother's Day is a celebration honouring mothers and celebrating motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in soci ety. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, yet most commonly in March, April, or May. It complements Father's Day, the cele bration honoring fathers.
Celebrations of mothers and motherhood occu r throughout the world; many of these can be traced back to ancient festiva ls, like the Greek cult to Cybele, the Roman festival of Hilaria or the Christian Mothe ring Sunday celebration.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T111653Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Fathers Day (Lithuania) (June 6th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Fathers-Day-Jun1S DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270606 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Fathers-Day-Jun1S-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June but it is also celebrate d widely on other days. Father's Day complements Mother's Day, a celebr ation honoring mothers.
Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting.
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