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2008 Holidays

Here’s a list of holidays and their 2008 dates; you’ll find information about many of them on WorldCultureNet. We’ll keep adding to this list throughout the year!

JANUARY
01 – New Year’s Day
05 – Twelfth Night
06 – Epiphany
10 – Muharram (Muslim New Year) (the first day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar)
19 - Ashura (the thenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar)
25 - Burns Supper
29 - Up-Helly-Aa (last Tuesday in January)
29 to February 5 - Maslenitsa (the last week before the Eastern Christian Great Lent, the seventh week before Easter)

FEBRUARY
02 - Groundhog Day
05 - Carnival season ends
14 - Valentine’s Day
17 - Chinese New Year
24 - Basant

MARCH
01 - Martisor
01 to 09 - Old Dochia’s Days
10 - Commonwealth Day (second Monday in March)
17 - St. Patrick’s Day
20 - Norooz, Persian New Year (Vernal Equinox)
23 - Easter, or Resurrection Sunday (the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, between March 22 and April 25)
24 - Easter Monday, or Dyngus Day

APRIL
01 - April Fool’s Day
13 to 15 - Songkram, Thai New Year
13 - Vaisakhi, the Punjab New Year

MAY
01 - May Day
05 - Cinco de Mayo

SEPTEMBER
1 to 30 - Ramadan (the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar)
21 to 22 - Yom Kippur (The tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, the seventh of the Religious Calendar)
25 - Chuseok (Korean Mid-Autumn Festival) and Mid-Autumn Festival/Harvest Moon Festival
29 to October 1 - Rosh Hashanah (first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, usually in September or October)

OCTOBER
08 - Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day (the second Sunday in October)
12 - Dia de la Raza

NOVEMBER
01 to 2 - Los Dias de los Muertos
02 - All Souls’ Day / Defuncts’ Day
09 to 13 - Diwali
11 - St. Martin’s Day
11 - Remembrance Day / Armistice Day / Veteran’s Day
15 - Shichi-Go-San
22 - American Thanksgiving Day
30 - St. Andrew’s Day
31 - Halloween