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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2024 spanned 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and featured more than 51,446 scheduled performances of 3,746 different shows across 262 venues from 60 different countries.
Edinburgh will open the 2024-25 URC season at home to Irish giants Leinster on Friday, 20 September, while Glasgow Warriors begin away to Ulster the following day. Edinburgh travel to South Africa ...
Hogmanay fireworks over Edinburgh The Pleasance venue Royal Mile street performance. This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland. The city has become known for its festivals since the establishment in 1947 of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which runs ...
25 December: Christmas Day: Statutory: The observance of Christmas Day was abolished by an Act of Parliament in 1640. [45] [46] [47] It was included in the schedule to the Bank Holidays Act 1871. [48] 26/27/28 December: Boxing Day: Proclaimed: Boxing Day (26 December) became a public holiday in Scotland in 1974. See also Christmas in Scotland.
The Term and Quarter Days (Scotland) Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which defined the dates of the Scottish Term and Quarter Days. These are customary divisions of the legal year when contracts traditionally begin and end and payments are due. [ 1 ]
Most areas in Scotland did not have the four-day weekend and only had the Tuesday official holiday. In 2022, there was a special holiday on Friday 3 June to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Therefore, to create a four-day weekend, the Spring Bank Holiday that would usually occur at the end of May was moved to Thursday 2 June.
The shortest day of the year will see an early sunset at 3:51pm
In Scotland, 1886 saw the term dates for removals and the hiring of servants in towns changed to 28 February, 28 May, 28 August and 28 November. The original dates are now referred to as Old Scottish Term Days. The dates were regularised by the Term and Quarter Days (Scotland) Act 1990.