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1 January - New Year's Day; 6 January - Epiphany; 21 January - Our Lady of High Grace; 26 January - Duarte's Birthday; 27 February – Independence Day; 18 April – Good Friday; 21 April - Easter Monday; 5 May - Labour Day; 5 June - Corpus Christi; 16 August - Restoration Day; 24 September - Our Lady of Mercy; 3 November – Constitution Day
Waitangi Day (Māori: Te Rā o Waitangi), the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial signing—on 6 February 1840—of the Treaty of Waitangi.The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement towards British sovereignty by representatives of the Crown and indigenous Māori chiefs, and so is regarded by many as the founding document of the nation.
Kiribati is an island country in the central Pacific Ocean, and its largest island, Kiritimati, was the first place to kick off 2025 when it was just 5 a.m. on December 31 on the East Coast of the ...
1 January - New Year's Day; 6 January - Epiphany; 17 April - Maundy Thursday; 18 April - Good Friday; 21 April - Easter Monday; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 15 August - Assumption Day; 12 October - National Day of Spain; 1 November - All Saints' Day; 6 December – Constitution Day; 25 December - Christmas Day
Happy 2025! In some parts of the world, anyway. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
Following a change of government in 1975, the new National government passed the Waitangi Day Act 1976, which changed the name of the day back to Waitangi Day. [2] It also gave Northland its own anniversary day holiday and included the English and Māori language versions of the Treaty of Waitangi as a schedule.
Spain is the Dominican Republic's third largest foreign investor (after the United States and Canada). In 2015, Spanish investments in the Dominican Republic totaled €926 million Euros. [15] Spanish multinational companies such as Mapfre, Telefónica and Inditex operate in the Dominican Republic. Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Madrid
Protest has long been part of Waitangi celebrations and in 1995 official events had to be cancelled due to anger over government policies. In 2016, a minister was struck in the face by a dildo ...