United Kingdom (N. Ireland) : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Sunday May 1, 2022 | Belfast Marathon | Sports events | |
Monday May 2, 2022 | Early May Bank Holiday | Secular holiday | |
Thursday May 5, 2022 | Local election | Special Events | |
Wednesday June 1, 2022 | Mid-term holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Thursday June 2, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
Friday June 3, 2022 | Queen's Platinum Jubilee | Secular holiday | |
Monday June 6, 2022 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday July 1, 2022 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Tuesday July 12, 2022 | Battle of Boyne | Secular holiday | |
Thursday July 14, 2022 | Emmeline Pankhurst Day | Events, celebrations... | |
Monday August 29, 2022 | Summer Bank Holiday | Secular holiday | |
Thursday September 1, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday October 28, 2022 | Mid-term holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday October 30, 2022 | Daylight Saving Time | Special Events | |
Wednesday November 2, 2022 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday November 11, 2022 | 2 minutes of silence | Special Events | |
Sunday November 13, 2022 | Poppy Day | Events, celebrations... | |
Belfast Marathon
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Sunday May 1, 2022
Sports events : Www.belfastcitymarathon.com/ 2022 edition confirmed
Early May Bank Holiday
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Monday May 2, 2022
Secular holiday : The Bank of England observed about 33 saints' days and religious festivals as holidays, but in 1834 this was reduced to four May 1 (May Day), November 1 (All Saints' Day), Good Friday and Christmas Day.
In 1871, the Bank Holidays Act 1871 was introduced. It stated that no person was compelled to make any payment or to do any act upon a bank holiday which he would not be compelled to do or make on Christmas Day or Good Friday.
100 years later the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 was passed, specifying the majority of the current bank holidays, although New Year's Day and May Day were not introduced throughout the whole of the UK until 1974 and 1978.
Local election
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Thursday May 5, 2022
Special Events :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday June 1, 2022
School holidays :
Public holiday
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Thursday June 2, 2022
Secular holiday :
Queen's Platinum Jubilee
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Friday June 3, 2022
Secular holiday :
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday June 6, 2022
School holidays :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday July 1, 2022
School holidays :
Battle of Boyne
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Tuesday July 12, 2022
Secular holiday :
Emmeline Pankhurst Day
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Thursday July 14, 2022
Culture : (14 July 1858 - 14 June 1928)
outspoken reformer committed to securing womens suffrage in Britain. She was jailed on numerous occasions for her protests at the lack of political rights for women in the UK.
Summer Bank Holiday
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Monday August 29, 2022
Secular holiday :
Summer holiday (end)
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Thursday September 1, 2022
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday October 28, 2022
School holidays :
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday October 30, 2022
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Wednesday November 2, 2022
School holidays :
2 minutes of silence
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Friday November 11, 2022
Special Events : Commemorates the day that World War One ended in 1918, when the armistice was signed in Compiègne, Northern France, at 5am. Six hours later, the fighting stopped, and to commemorate this there is a two minute silence at 11:00 am
Poppy Day
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Sunday November 13, 2022
Culture : Remembrance Day is also known as Poppy Day, because it is traditional to wear an artificial poppy. They are sold by the Royal British Legion, a charity dedicated to helping war veterans, although they do not have a fixed price - they rely on donations.
The poppies are worn because in World War One the Western Front contained in the soil thousands of poppy seeds, all lying dormant. They would have lain there for years more, but the battles being fought there churned up the soil so much that the poppies bloomed like never before. The most famous bloom of poppies in the war was in Ypres, a town in Flanders, Belgium, which was crucial to the Allied defence. There were three battles there, but it was the second, which was calamitous to the allies since it heralded the first use of the new chlorine gas the Germans were experimenting with, which brought forth the poppies in greatest abundance, and inspired the Canadian soldier, Major John McCrae, to write his most famous poem. This, in turn, inspired the British Legion to adopt the poppy as their emblem. BBC