Moonwise: Gregorian Year 2004: secular holidays

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Gregorian Year 2004
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 2004

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

February 2004

01	Sun		16	Mon	Independence Day, Lithuania Presidents’ Day, USA
02	Mon		17	Tue
03	Tue		18	Wed
04	Wed	Independence Commemoration, Sri Lanka	19	Thu
05	Thu		20	Fri
06	Fri	Waitangi Day, New Zealand / Aotearoa	21	Sat	Shaheed Day, Bangladesh
07	Sat		22	Sun
08	Sun	Culture Day, Slovenia	23	Mon
09	Mon		24	Tue	Independence Day, Estonia
10	Tue		25	Wed
11	Wed		26	Thu
12	Thu		27	Fri
13	Fri		28	Sat
14	Sat		29	Sun
15	Sun

March 2004

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

April 2004

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

May 2004

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

June 2004

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

July 2004

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

August 2004

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

September 2004

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

October 2004

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

November 2004

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

December 2004

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

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updated December 2004