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The cross-quarter days are four holidays falling in between the quarter days: Candlemas (2 February), May Day (1 May), Lammas (1 August), and All Hallows (1 November). At many schools, class terms would begin on the quarter days; for example, the autumn term would start on 29 September, and thus continues to be called the Michaelmas term ...
The Lunar Hijri calendar ("Islamic calendar") is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. [ a ] The astronomer's mean tropical year , which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices, is currently 365.24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars.
No quarter, during military conflict or piracy, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but killed. Since the Hague Convention of 1899 , it is considered a war crime ; it is also prohibited in customary international law and by the Rome Statute .
In England, Lady Day was New Year's Day (i.e., the new year began on 25 March) from 1155 [6] until 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Great Britain and its Empire and with it the first of January as the official start of the year in England, Wales and Ireland. [6] (Scotland changed its new year's day to 1 January in 1600, but ...
An annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the anniversary of a number of disasters in Jewish history. (see description) Double Ninth Festival: Chung Yeung Festival: China, Vietnam, Korea: A traditional Chinese holiday observed on the 9th day of the 9th month in the Chinese calendar. [9] October 10: Double Ten Day: National Celebration Day
Each year, thousands of cannabis users meet in Hyde Park, London, in celebration of 4/20 and to protest the existing laws prohibiting use and possession of cannabis in the UK. A man smoking at the ...
A day that doesn't have a fixed day but has a fixed period, e.g. an observance based on days of the Gregorian calendar (e.g. National Grandparents Day, etc.), Christian calendar (Easter, Volkstrauertag, Advent, etc.), solstices, and equinoxes. For the purpose of this guideline, the term solar moving day is used for this type of moving 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.