The National Day is a designated date on which celeb rations mark the nationhood of a nation or non-sovereign country. T his nationhood can be symbolized by the date of independence, of becoming republic or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (birthday, accession< /a>, removal, etc.). Often the day is not called "National Day" but serves and can be considered as one. The National Day will often be a national h oliday.
Some countries have more than one National Day. For examp le, Pakistan has three National Days, none of which is named the ”Nat ional Day”. This signals the use of a ”class” of National Days, that are equally important in the foundation of the nation, and a &r dquo;class” of less important official public holidays.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T050811Z 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:20260610T050811Z 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:20260610T050811Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Christmas Eve (December 24th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Christmas-Eve DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261224 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Christmas-Eve-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Christmas Eve refers to the evening preceding Christmas Day, a < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_worldwide" title="Christmas worldwide">widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of N azareth that takes place on December 25.[4] It is a culturally significant celebration for most of the Western world and i s widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day.
One reason celebrations occur on Christmas Eve is because the t
raditional Christian liturgical day starts at sunset,[5] an inheritance from Jewish tradition,[6] which in tur
n is based in the story of creation in Genesis: "And there was evening, and
there was morning – the first day."[7] This liturgical day i
s followed for all days in the Eastern rite[8] and the cu
stom of beginning Christmas celebration (as well as Sunday and the other ma
jor festivals) in the preceding evening is preserved in western Churches th
at have altered the liturgical day to start at midnight, for example the Ro
man Catholic Church.[9] Many churches still ring
their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays; for exa
mple the Nordic Lutheran churches.
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]
St. Stephen's Day, or the Feast of St. Stephen, is a Christian saint's day celebrated on 26 Dece mber in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church. Many Eastern Orthodox churches adhere to the Julian calendar and mark St. S tephen's Day on 27 December according to that calendar, which places it on 9 January of the Gregorian calendar used in secular contexts. It commemorates St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protoma rtyr. It is an official public holiday in Austria, Balearic Islands, Cataloni a, Croat ia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Poland. The date is also a Public Holiday in those co untries that celebrate Boxing Day on the day instead/as well.
In Ireland, the day is one of nine official public holidays.[1]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T050811Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:New Years Day (January 1st, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/New-Years-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270101 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-New-Years-Day-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC: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:20260610T050811Z 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
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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:20260610T050811Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Easter Monday (Western) (March 29th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Easter-Monday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270329 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Easter-Monday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Easter Monday (also known as Egg Nyte) is the day after Eas ter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures, especially Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox cultures. Easter Monday in the R oman Catholic liturgical calendar is th e second day of the octave of Easter Week and analogously i n the Eastern Orthodox Church is the second day of Bright Week.
Forme rly, the post-Easter festivities involved a week of secular cel ebration, but in many places this was reduced to one day in the 19th centur y. Events include egg rolling competitions and, in predominantly Roman Catholic countries, dousing other peopl e with water which traditionally had been blessed with holy water the day bef ore at Easter Sunday Mass and carried home to bless the house and food.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T050811Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:May Day (May 1st, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/May-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270501 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-May-Day-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:May Day on May 1 is an ancient northern hemisphere spring fe stival and usually a public holiday; [1] it is also a traditional spring holiday i n many cultures.
May Day is related to the Celtic festival of < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane" title="Beltane">Beltane a nd the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day fall s exactly half a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern Europe an pagan and neopagan festivals such as Samhain. May Day marks the en d of the unfarmable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebr ations. As Europe became Christianized the pagan holidays lost their religious ch aracter and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May D ay, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holiday s as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day. In the twentieth century, many neopagans began reconstruct ing the old traditions and celebrating May Day as a pagan religious festiva l again.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T050811Z 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:20260610T050811Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Whit Monday (May 17th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Whit-Monday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270517 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Whit-Monday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (also known a s Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a movable feast in the Christian calendar. It is movabl e because it is determined by the date of Easter.
Whit Monday gets its English name for following "Whitsun", the day that became one of the three baptismal seasons. The o rigin of the name "Whit Sunday" is generally attributed to the white garmen ts formerly worn by those newly baptized on this feast.
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