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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.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "Public holidays in Sweden" The following 15 pages are in this category ...
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.
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 ...
Source: [5]. 1 January – New Year's Day 6 January – Epiphany 18 April – Good Friday 20 April – Easter Sunday 21 April – Easter Monday 1 May – International Workers' Day
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By an ordinance issued by the government of Sweden, a number of days of the calendar year are designated as official flag flying days [1] when the Swedish flag is flown on all public flagpoles and buildings. Hoisting of the Swedish flag on private flagpoles on these days is strongly encouraged but not mandatory.
The Swedish calendar (Swedish: svenska kalendern) or Swedish style (svenska stilen) was a calendar in use in Sweden and its possessions from 1 March 1700 until 30 February 1712. [1] It was one day ahead of the Julian calendar and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar .