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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