| Thingyan Water Festival - Wednesday April 13, 2022 Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Thingyan Water Festival - Thursday April 14, 2022 Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Thingyan Water Festival - Friday April 15, 2022 Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Thingyan Water Festival - Friday April 16, 2021 Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan - Sunday April 17, 2022 Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
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| Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan - Sunday April 18, 2021 Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
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| Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan - Monday April 19, 2021 Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
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| Public holiday - Friday April 30, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Labor Day/May Day - Saturday May 1, 2021 Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
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| Kason Full Moon Day - Tuesday May 25, 2021 Secular holiday : Kason is a local month falling in April-May
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| Martyrs Day - Monday July 19, 2021 Secular holiday : Commemorates the assassination of independence leaders in 1947
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday July 20, 2021 cards/flowers : The second main celebration of Islam. It cele ates A aham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia.
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| Waso Robe Donation Ceremony - Friday July 23, 2021 Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Lasts 2 weeks
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