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A celebration of spring, [9] [10] it falls on the first day of the fifth solar term (also called Qingming) of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4, 5 or 6 April in a given year.
A holiday celebrating trees. Celebrations. Planting, caring for and climbing trees, educating about the importance of trees. Frequency. Annual. Arbor Day (or Arbour Day in some countries) is a secular day of observance in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees. [ 1] Today, many countries observe such a holiday.
April 20. ( 2026-04-20) Frequency. Annual. Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground cemetery, Arlington, Massachusetts. Patriots' Day ( Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural ...
Weekly observances in April 2024. April 1 to 7: Be Kind to Spiders Week. April 3 to 9: National Public Health Week. April 4 to 9: National Wildlife Week. April 6 to 13: National Robotics Week.
In 2015, it was moved to late February and the name was changed to Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, to be more inclusive of all arospec identities. [ 9] Aromantic Visibility Day. 5 June. 2023. A day to promote the visibility of people on the aromantic spectrum. [ 10][ 11] International Asexuality Day. 6 April.
April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Cold Food Festival, held on April 4 if it is a leap year (China); and its related observances: Earliest day on which Sham el-Nessim can fall, while May 9 is the latest; celebrated on Monday after the Orthodox Easter ; Children's Day (Palestinian territories) First Contact Day (International observance) [66]
October 25, 2020. Double Ninth Festival (Chongyang Festival) 重陽節 / 重阳节. Autumn outing and mountain climbing, some Chinese also visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects. 15th day of 10th lunar month. November 29, 2020 [ 7] Saisiat Festival. 賽夏節. Pas-taai Festival of the Saisiat tribe in Taiwan.
[48] [49] [50] In the early decades of the 20th century, Vesak Day was associated with the Ceylonese community which then celebrated it along with their National Day in a two-day event. After World War II, there was a movement to make Vesak Day a public holiday, with the Singapore Buddhist Association leading the petitions.