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Year Date Event Source c.200 AD The Maitum Jars are anthropomorphic jars that were depicting a Child/ Human beings (head is the lead of the jar with ears and the body was the jar itself with hands and feet as the handle) with perforations in red and black colors, had been used as a secondary burial jars in Ayub cave, Pinol, Maitum Sarangani province, each of the jars had a "facial expression".
Traditionally, until 2019 and since 2025, it marked the start of the school year and formerly the university academic year (until the move to August in 2015-17). The holiday marked the end of the school year for students of basic academic institutions from 2020 to 2024 and today serves as the end of the university and college academic year.
There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the Philippines, the majority of which are in the barangay (village) level. Due to the thousands of town, city, provincial, national, and village fiestas in the country, the Philippines has traditionally been known as the Capital of the World's Festivities .
April 6 – The University of the Philippines College of Law wins the 2024 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington D.C., making it the third Filipino competitor to win the event in its history. [413] April 13 – Visual artist Elvin Perocho Vitor of Bohol receives the Leonardo da Vinci International Award in ...
Pages in category "Public holidays in the Philippines" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On October 31, the national government publicly released the list of holidays and non-working days, which are indicated by proclamations signed by the president a day earlier. Proclamation No. 727, series of 2024, contains the general list, [ 11 ] with the People Power anniversary , which was not declared a holiday for 2024, being returned but ...
The holiday traces its roots to the Cry of Pugad Lawin in August 1896, which marked the beginning of the Philippine Revolution. [3] The date and the location of the cry have been long disputed. From 1911 to 1962, the cry was thought to have emanated from Balintawak (now in modern-day Balingasa, Quezon City) on August 26. [4]
Independence Day [1] (Filipino: Araw ng Kasarinlán; also known as Araw ng Kalayaan, "Day of Freedom") is a national holiday in the Philippines observed annually on June 12, [2] commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898. [2] Since 1978, it has been the country's National Day.