Moonwise: Gregorian Year 2003: secular holidays

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Gregorian Year 2003
Secular holidays

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Gregorian Calendar: secular dates

Here are secular (non-religious) special dates from many countries around the world. A lot of these are public holidays, but by no means all. Public holidays are also often religious festivals; look for those on the relevant pages. If there are other countries or special dates that you would like me to feature, please let me know. Note that there will be a separate page for Japan, combining all its secular and religious days. Dates for clock changes will in some cases be provisional and susceptible to alteration; most of the countries not mentioned do not currently change their clocks. If it is important for you to know which days are public holidays in a particular country, or to know for sure when and if clocks change, please check with the relevant embassy or tourist information office.

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January 2003

01	Wed	New Year’s Day Liberation Day, Cuba	17	Fri
02	Thu	New Year Holiday, Scotland	18	Sat
03	Fri		19	Sun
04	Sat		20	Mon	Martin Luther King Day, USA
05	Sun		21	Tue
06	Mon		22	Wed
07	Tue		23	Thu
08	Wed		24	Fri
09	Thu		25	Sat	Burns Night, Scotland
10	Fri		26	Sun	Australia Day Republic Day, India
11	Sat		27	Mon	Holocaust Memorial Day Australia Day Holiday
12	Sun		28	Tue
13	Mon	Plough Monday, England	29	Wed
14	Tue		30	Thu
15	Wed		31	Fri
16	Thu

February 2003

01	Sat		15	Sat
02	Sun		16	Sun	Independence Day, Lithuania
03	Mon		17	Mon	Presidents’ Day, USA
04	Tue	Independence Commemoration, Sri Lanka	18	Tue
05	Wed		19	Wed
06	Thu	Waitangi Day, New Zealand / Aotearoa	20	Thu
07	Fri		21	Fri	Shaheed Day, Bangladesh
08	Sat	Culture Day, Slovenia	22	Sat
09	Sun		23	Sun
10	Mon		24	Mon	Independence Day, Estonia
11	Tue		25	Tue
12	Wed		26	Wed
13	Thu		27	Thu
14	Fri		28	Fri

March 2003

01	Sat	Independence Day, Bosnia & Herzegovina	17	Mon
02	Sun	clocks back, Paraguay	18	Tue
03	Mon	National Day, Bulgaria	19	Wed
04	Tue		20	Thu
05	Wed		21	Fri	Human Rights Day, South Africa clocks forward, Iran
06	Thu		22	Sat
07	Fri		23	Sun	Pakistan Day
08	Sat	International Women’s Day	24	Mon
09	Sun	clocks back, Chile	25	Tue	Independence Day, Greece
10	Mon	Commonwealth Day	26	Wed	Independence Day, Bangladesh
11	Tue	Restoration of the State, Lithuania	27	Thu
12	Wed		28	Fri	clocks forward, Israel
13	Thu		29	Sat
14	Fri		30	Sun	clocks back, Australia clocks forward, Europe (exc Iceland), Turkey, Lebanon, Cuba, E & C Greenland
15	Sat	1848 Revolution, Hungary	31	Mon	Freedom Day, Malta
16	Sun	clocks back, New Zealand / Aotearoa

April 2003

01	Tue	April Fools Day National Day, Cyprus clocks forward, Iraq, Syria	16	Wed
02	Wed		17	Thu
03	Thu		18	Fri
04	Fri		19	Sat
05	Sat		20	Sun	clocks back, Falklands / Malvinas
06	Sun	Chakri Day, Thailand clocks back, Namibia clocks forward, most of North America	21	Mon
07	Mon	Chakri Day Holiday, Thailand	22	Tue
08	Tue		23	Wed	Sovereignty & Children’s Day, Turkey
09	Wed		24	Thu	First Day of Summer, Iceland
10	Thu		25	Fri	Liberation Day, Italy Liberty Day, Portugal ANZAC Day, Australia & New Zealand clocks forward, Egypt
11	Fri		26	Sat
12	Sat		27	Sun	Resistance Day, Slovenia National Day, Serbia & Montenegro Freedom Day, South Africa
13	Sun		28	Mon
14	Mon		29	Tue
15	Tue		30	Wed	Queens Day, Holland

May 2003

01	Thu	May Day	17	Sat	Constitution Day, Norway
02	Fri		18	Sun
03	Sat	National Day, Poland	19	Mon	Atatürk & Youth Day, Turkey Victoria Day, Canada
04	Sun	Commemoration of the Dead, Holland Youth Day, China	20	Tue
05	Mon	Early May Holiday, Britain and Ireland Liberation Day, Holland Coronation Day, Thailand	21	Wed
06	Tue		22	Thu
07	Wed	Independence Day, Israel	23	Fri
08	Thu	Liberation Day, Slovakia Victory Day 1945, France	24	Sat	Culture Day, Bulgaria The Three Marys
09	Fri	Liberation Day, Channel Islands VE Day, Russia Europe Day	25	Sun
10	Sat		26	Mon	Spring Holiday, Great Britain Memorial Day, USA
11	Sun		27	Tue
12	Mon		28	Wed
13	Tue		29	Thu	Oak Apple Day, England
14	Wed		30	Fri
15	Thu		31	Sat
16	Fri

June 2003

01	Sun		16	Mon	Youth Day, South Africa
02	Mon	June Holiday, Ireland Republic Day, Italy Queen’s Birthday, New Zealand / Aotearoa	17	Tue	National Day, Iceland
03	Tue		18	Wed
04	Wed		19	Thu	Juneteenth
05	Thu	Constitution Day, Denmark	20	Fri	Midsummer Holiday, Finland
06	Fri		21	Sat	Midsummer Holiday, Finland Midsummer Holiday, Sweden
07	Sat	1919 Uprising, Malta	22	Sun	Anti-Fascism Day, Croatia
08	Sun		23	Mon	Ligo Day, Latvia National Day, Luxembourg Võidupüha, Estonia
09	Mon		24	Tue
10	Tue	Portugal Day	25	Wed	National Day, Slovenia National State Day, Croatia
11	Wed		26	Thu
12	Thu	Independence Day, Russia	27	Fri
13	Fri		28	Sat
14	Sat		29	Sun
15	Sun		30	Mon

July 2003

01	Tue	Canada Day	17	Thu
02	Wed		18	Fri
03	Thu		19	Sat
04	Fri	Independence Day, USA	20	Sun
05	Sat	Tynwald Day, Isle of Man	21	Mon	National Day, Belgium
06	Sun	Coronation Day, Lithuania Martyrdom of Jan Hus, Czech Republic	22	Tue
07	Mon		23	Wed
08	Tue		24	Thu
09	Wed		25	Fri	1953 Revolution, Cuba
10	Thu		26	Sat
11	Fri		27	Sun
12	Sat	Holiday, N Ireland	28	Mon	Fall of Fascism, San Marino
13	Sun		29	Tue
14	Mon	National Day, France	30	Wed
15	Tue		31	Thu
16	Wed

August 2003

01	Fri	National Day, Switzerland Holiday, China	17	Sun
02	Sat	Ilinden Uprising, Macedonia	18	Mon
03	Sun		19	Tue
04	Mon	August Holiday, Scotland and Ireland Commerce Day, Iceland	20	Wed	Foundation Day, Hungary Restoration of Independence, Estonia
05	Tue	Homeland Thanksgiving Day, Croatia	21	Thu
06	Wed		22	Fri
07	Thu		23	Sat
08	Fri		24	Sun
09	Sat	National Women’s Day, South Africa	25	Mon	Late Summer Holiday, England & Wales
10	Sun		26	Tue
11	Mon		27	Wed
12	Tue	Queen’s Birthday, Thailand	28	Thu
13	Wed		29	Fri	National Uprising Day, Slovakia
14	Thu	Independence Day, Pakistan	30	Sat	Holiday, Turkey
15	Fri	Independence Day, India	31	Sun
16	Sat

September 2003

01	Mon	Constitution Day, Slovakia Labor Day, USA Labour Day, Canada	16	Tue
02	Tue		17	Wed
03	Wed	San Marino Day	18	Thu
04	Thu		19	Fri
05	Fri		20	Sat
06	Sat	Union Day, Bulgaria	21	Sun	Independence Day, Malta
07	Sun	clocks forward, Falklands / Malvinas clocks forward, Namibia	22	Mon	Independence Day, Bulgaria
08	Mon		23	Tue	clocks back, Iran
09	Tue		24	Wed	Heritage Day, South Africa
10	Wed		25	Thu
11	Thu	Death of Qaid-i-Azam, Pakistan	26	Fri	clocks back, Egypt
12	Fri		27	Sat
13	Sat		28	Sun	Czech Statehood Day
14	Sun	Byzantine New Year	29	Mon
15	Mon		30	Tue

October 2003

01	Wed	Independence Day, Cyprus National Day, China clocks back, Syria, Iraq	17	Fri
02	Thu	Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday, India National Day, China	18	Sat
03	Fri	Unity Day, Germany clocks back, Israel	19	Sun
04	Sat		20	Mon
05	Sun	Republic Day, Portugal clocks forward, New Zealand, Tasmania, Paraguay	21	Tue
06	Mon		22	Wed
07	Tue		23	Thu	National Day, Hungary Chulalongkorn Day, Thailand
08	Wed	Independence Day, Croatia	24	Fri
09	Thu		25	Sat
10	Fri	Wars of Independence Day, Cuba	26	Sun	National Holiday, Austria clocks back, Europe (exc Iceland), Turkey, Lebanon, Cuba, most of North America clocks forward, Australia (exc Tasmania)
11	Sat	National Day, Macedonia	27	Mon	October Holiday, Ireland Labour Day, New Zealand / Aotearoa
12	Sun	National Day, Spain clocks forward, Chile	28	Tue	National Day, Czech Republic Óhi Day, Greece
13	Mon	Columbus Day, USA Thanksgiving Day, Canada	29	Wed	Republic Day, Turkey
14	Tue		30	Thu
15	Wed		31	Fri	Reformation Day, Slovenia
16	Thu

November 2003

01	Sat		16	Sun
02	Sun		17	Mon	Struggle for Liberty and Democracy, Czech Republic & Slovakia
03	Mon		18	Tue	National Day, Latvia
04	Tue		19	Wed	Prince’s Day, Monaco
05	Wed	Guy Fawkes Night, Great Britain	20	Thu
06	Thu		21	Fri
07	Fri	Day of Accord and Reconciliation, Russia	22	Sat
08	Sat		23	Sun
09	Sun	Allama Iqbal Day, Pakistan	24	Mon
10	Mon		25	Tue	Republic Day, Bosnia & Herzegovina
11	Tue	Armistice Day Independence Day, Poland	26	Wed
12	Wed		27	Thu	Thanksgiving Day, USA
13	Thu		28	Fri
14	Fri		29	Sat	Republic Day, Serbia & Montenegro
15	Sat		30	Sun	Republic Day, Serbia & Montenegro

December 2003

01	Mon	World AIDS Day Constitution Day, Spain Restoration of Independence, Portugal National Day, Romania	17	Wed
02	Tue		18	Thu
03	Wed		19	Fri
04	Thu		20	Sat
05	Fri	King’s Birthday, Thailand	21	Sun
06	Sat	Independence Day, Finland	22	Mon
07	Sun		23	Tue
08	Mon		24	Wed
09	Tue		25	Thu	Birth of Qaid-i-Azam, Pakistan
10	Wed	Constitution Day, Thailand	26	Fri	Independence Day, Slovenia Kwanzaa
11	Thu		27	Sat
12	Fri	Constitution Day, Russia	28	Sun
13	Sat	Republic Day, Malta	29	Mon
14	Sun		30	Tue
15	Mon		31	Wed	New Year’s Eve Hogmanay, Scotland
16	Tue	Day of Reconciliation, South Africa Victory Day, Bangladesh

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updated December 2003