Holidays

Articles about holidays, observances and commemorative dates.

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Birthday

Birthday — the anniversary of a person's birth

A birthday marks the anniversary of a person's birth. Worldwide customs include parties, cakes, gifts, rites of passage and legal recognition; practices vary by culture and age mil

Boxing Day

Boxing Day: Origins, Traditions and Modern Observances

Burns Night

Camping

Canada Day

Candlemas

Candlemas: Feast of the Presentation and the Purification of Mary

Children's Day (Japan)

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year (Spring Festival / Lunar New Year)

Christmas

Christmas card

Christmas cracker

Christmas decoration

Christmas stocking

Christmas tree

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo: history, observances, and cultural significance

Columbus Day

Common year starting on Friday

Common year starting on Monday

Common year beginning on Monday (January 1)

Common year starting on Tuesday

Common year beginning on Tuesday (calendar properties and examples)

Corpus Christi

Darwin Day

Darwin Day: Commemorating Charles Darwin and the Science of Evolution

Dashain

Dashain (Vijaya Dashami): Nepal's major Hindu festival

Day of Ashura

Day of Ashura: meaning, history, and observance

Day of the Dead

Death anniversary

December

December 11

December 11 — calendar date, history, and observances

December 12

December 13

December 14

December 15

December 16

December 18

December 19

December 2

December 20

December 22

December 23

December 24

December 24: Christmas Eve and its cultural, historical, and calendar significance