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Annual World Events and Holidays

🌍 Annual World Events and Holidays 🗓️

Note: Dates for certain holidays (like **Easter**, **Diwali**, **Eid al-Fitr**, and **Lunar New Year**) are **movable** as they depend on lunar/lunisolar calendars or are country-specific. The dates below are approximate or fixed.
Date (Approximate) Event/Holiday Category
January 1 **New Year's Day** Global/Civil
February 10-20 (Movable) **Lunar New Year** / Spring Festival Cultural/Religious
March 8 **International Women's Day** Global Observance
March 20/21 (Movable) **Eid al-Fitr** (End of Ramadan) Religious (Islamic)
March/April (Movable) **Easter** (Good Friday to Easter Monday) Religious (Christian)
April 22 **International Mother Earth Day** Global Observance
May 1 **International Workers' Day** / May Day Global/Civil
May/June (Movable) **Eid al-Adha** (Feast of Sacrifice) Religious (Islamic)
June 5 **World Environment Day** Global Observance
July 14 **Bastille Day** (France National Day) National
August (Various) **Summer Olympics** (Every 4 years, e.g., 2028) Sporting Event
September 1 (Movable) **Islamic New Year** (Hijri New Year) Religious (Islamic)
September 21 **International Day of Peace** Global Observance
September/October (Movable) **Rosh Hashanah** (Jewish New Year) Religious (Jewish)
October/November (Movable) **Diwali** (Festival of Lights) Religious (Hindu/Sikh/Jain)
October 24 **United Nations Day** Global Observance
October 31 **Halloween** Cultural
November 11 **Remembrance Day** / Veterans Day Global/Civil
November (4th Thursday) **Thanksgiving** (USA) National
December 1 **World AIDS Day** Global Observance
December (Movable) **Hanukkah** (Jewish Festival of Lights) Religious (Jewish)
December 25 **Christmas Day** Religious (Christian)/Cultural
December 31 **New Year's Eve** Global/Civil

Holidays and Observances Around the World

Top Ten Global Holidays

Top 10 Most Celebrated Global Holidays

  1. New Year's Day / New Year's Eve (January 1st, and December 31st) - Celebrated globally to mark the beginning of a new Gregorian calendar year.
  2. Christmas (December 25th) - A major religious and cultural holiday primarily celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, widely celebrated globally by Christians and non-Christians alike.
  3. Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year / Spring Festival) - Celebrated by billions across East and Southeast Asia and diaspora communities, marking the transition into a new year on the lunisolar calendar (typically late January to mid-February).
  4. Eid al-Fitr - An important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide, marking the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. The date varies based on the lunar calendar.
  5. Diwali (Festival of Lights) - Celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists across the globe, symbolizing the spiritual victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance (typically mid-October to mid-November).
  6. Easter - The most important religious holiday for Christians, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead (falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25).
  7. International Workers' Day / May Day (May 1st) - A celebration of laborers and the working class that is a national public holiday in many countries worldwide.
  8. Valentine's Day (February 14th) - Widely recognized as a significant cultural and commercial celebration of romance and love across many regions.
  9. Eid al-Adha - The "Festival of Sacrifice," a second major Islamic holiday honoring the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son (date varies based on the lunar calendar).
  10. Halloween (October 31st) - Has grown from a Celtic harvest festival to a globally recognized night of costumes, trick-or-treating, and themed parties, particularly popular in the West.

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