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The Swedish calendar also provides for special flag flying days. Flag flying days are in some cases official holidays or the birthdays and namedays for the Royal family and informal holidays like Gustavus Adolphus Day (6 November) or the Nobel Day (10 December). There is no formal connection between flag flying days and holiday.
The celebration of this day begun as the Day of the Swedish Flag, ca 1900, and the day is chosen in commemoration of the election of Gustav Vasa as King of Sweden on this date in 1523. The second most important festivity in the Swedish calendar, or perhaps for many the most important, is Midsummer, midsommar. Midsummer's Eve is celebrated on ...
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29 May – Sweden announces a further package of $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine; the largest so far that it has given. [ 13 ] 31 May – King Carl XVI Gustaf inducts pop music group ABBA , Nobel Prize laureates Anne L’Huillier and Svante Pääbo and nine other recipients into the Royal Order of Vasa in a ceremony at the Royal Palace ...
Pages in category "Public holidays in Sweden" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal and India have the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week.
In Sweden, Midsummer day is a Saturday between 20 June and 26 June, but as is usual in Sweden the actual celebration is on the eve, i.e. a Friday between 19 June and 25 June. Midsummer's Eve is a de facto public holiday in Sweden with offices and many shops closed. [74] Another tradition on a Swedish Midsummer is to end it with a skinny dip at ...
Christmas (Swedish: jul, IPA: ⓘ) is celebrated throughout December and traditionally until St. Knut's Day on January 13. The main celebration and the exchange of gifts in many families takes place on Christmas Eve, December 24. The Feast of St. Lucy, a high point in the Swedish Christmas season, is celebrated during Advent, on December 13.