Moonwise: Gregorian Year 2006: secular holidays

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Gregorian Year 2006
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.

<2005

January 2006

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

February 2006

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

March 2006

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

April 2006

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

May 2006

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

June 2006

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

July 2006

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

August 2006

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

September 2006

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

October 2006

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

November 2006

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

December 2006

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

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updated December 2005