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28 January – National Army Day; 8 March – International Women's Day; 21 April – Easter Monday; 24 April – Armenian Remembrance Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 9 May – Victory and Peace Day; 28 May – 1st Republic Day; 5 July – Constitution Day; 21 September - Independence Day; 31 December - New Year's Eve
Shushi Liberation Day - on May 8, 1992, Armenian forces freed the city from Azerbaijani military forces, marking an important milestone in Artsakh liberation war for Armenians. Victory Day : 9 May ( World War II ) was a holiday throughout the USSR and is still an official holiday in Armenia.
The Armenian calendar is based on an invariant year length of 365 days. Because a solar year is about 365.25 days and not 365 days, the correspondence between the Armenian calendar and both the solar year and the Julian calendar slowly drifted over time, shifting across a year of the Julian calendar once in 1,461 calendar years (see Sothic cycle).
Army Day was first celebrated in 2001, same year when the President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, signed Army Day into law as an official holiday and a non-working day. Usually officials visit Yerablur memorial to pay homage to the fallen Armenian soldiers who lost their life defending the homeland.
Vardavar is generally celebrated 98 days (14 weeks) after Easter in the republic and the diaspora when the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration. In some regions, however, it is held on different days, and traditions differ too.
Jan. 2025 holiday schedule: MLK Jr. Day, Inauguration Day, day of mourning, National Days When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025? Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurs on Monday, Jan. 20.
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Mets Yegherrni zoheri hishataki or) or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day [5] is a public holiday in Armenia and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. [5] [6] It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
2 Commemoration Day of St. Kalistratos and his 49 companions, and Lukianos the Priest; 3 Feast Day of Saint Zechariah the Prophet; 4 Fast Day; 5 Feast Day of Saint Elisha the Prophet; 6 Fast Day; 7 Feast Day of the Twelve Holy Apostles of Christ and St Paul, the Thirteenth Apostle; 8 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Paregentan of the Fast of ...