Honolulu Festival
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Friday March 10, 2023
Culture : Lasts 3 days - https://www.honolulufestival.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday March 10, 2023
School holidays :
Spring holiday (end)
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Monday March 20, 2023
School holidays :
Kuhio Day (Regatta day)
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Sunday March 26, 2023
Secular holiday : Birthday of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianole who was a prince in the House of Kalakaua when the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown in 1893.
Kuhio later became a territorial delegate to the US Congress where he authored the first statehood bill in 1919. He also won passage of the 1920 Hawaiian Homes Act which created the Hawaiian Homes Commission and set aside more than 200,000 acres for Hawaiian homesteaders.
Kuhio Day (Regatta day)
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Monday March 27, 2023
Secular holiday : Birthday of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianole who was a prince in the House of Kalakaua when the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown in 1893.
Kuhio later became a territorial delegate to the US Congress where he authored the first statehood bill in 1919. He also won passage of the 1920 Hawaiian Homes Act which created the Hawaiian Homes Commission and set aside more than 200,000 acres for Hawaiian homesteaders.
Good Friday
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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic : Good Friday is the Friday before Easter. It commemorates the execution of Jesus by crucifixion.
Lei Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
Culture : This Festival of the Lei was first held on May 1, 1928, when a pair of local artists in Honolulu encouraged everyone to wear a lei. Festivities were held downtown with hula, music, lei making demonstrations, and exhibits and contests
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday May 26, 2023
School holidays :
Memorial Day
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Monday May 29, 2023
Secular holiday : Observed on the last Monday in May in most of the United States, in honour of the nations armed services personnel killed in wartime and the deceased in general. Created after the Civil War, it is traditionally marked by parades, memorial speeches
King Kamehameha Day
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Monday June 12, 2023
Secular holiday : Celebrates the king who unified Hawaii (Molokai, Kahoolawe, Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii.
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
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Juneteenth National Freedom Day
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Monday June 19, 2023
Banks only : To remember and honor the freeing, in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, of the last slaves in the United States from 2019 on
Independence Day
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Tuesday July 4, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Fourth is traditionally celebrated publicly with parades and pageants, patriotic speeches, and organized firing of guns and cannons and displays of fireworks.
Sovereignty Restoration Day
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Monday July 31, 2023
Secular holiday : La Hoihoi Ea, or Sovereignty Restoration Day
The day commemorates King Kamehameha III, who established the date of sovereignty as its first national holiday. In 1840, British forces raised the union jack in Honolulu to symbolize taking control of Hawaii.
King Kamehameha III responded by sending representatives to a British court.
It was on July 31, 1843, that the Hawaiian flag was re-raised in Honolulu and power was returned to the king. from 2022
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday August 7, 2023
School holidays :
Statehood Day
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Friday August 18, 2023
Secular holiday :
Labor Day
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Monday September 4, 2023
Secular holiday : Celebrated on the first Monday in September with parades. For most Americans, it marks the end of summer holidays, and for many students the beginning of the classes.