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Swiss National Day (German: Schweizer Bundesfeiertag; French: Fête nationale suisse; Italian: Festa nazionale svizzera; Romansh: Festa naziunala svizra) is the national holiday of Switzerland, set on 1 August. Although the founding of the Swiss Confederacy was first celebrated on this date in 1891 and annually since 1899, it has only been an ...
4 February – The United States Postal Service indefinitely suspends its acceptance of parcels from China and Hong Kong. [7] 7–14 February – The 2025 Asian Winter Games are held in Harbin, [8] with China placing first in terms of medals with 32 golds, 26 silvers, and 24 bronzes and achieving its highest medal tally in the history of the ...
The week-long holidays on May (Labor) Day and National Day began in 2000, as a measure to increase and encourage holiday spending. The resulting seven-day or eight-day (if Mid-Autumn Festival is near National Day) holidays are called "Golden Weeks" (黄金 周), and have become peak seasons for travel and tourism. In 2008, the Labor Day holiday ...
1 May - International Workers' Day; 29 May - Ascension Day; 9 June - Whit Monday; 19 June - Corpus Christi; 29 June - Saints Peter and Paul; 1 August - Swiss National Day; 15 August - Assumption Day; 11 September - Jeûne genevois; 21 September - Lundi du Jeûne; 25 September - Saint Nicholas of Flüe Day; 1 November - All Saints' Day
2025 is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
1 January – New Year's Day; 29 February – Chinese New Year's Eve; 30–31 January – Chinese New Year; 4 April - Qingming Festival; 18 April - Good Friday; 19 April - Holy Saturday; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 5 May - Buddha's Birthday; 31 May - Dragon Boat Festival; 1–2 October – National Day; 7 October – Mid-Autumn Festival
A national day is a day on which celebrations mark the statehood or nationhood of a state or its people. It may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, of becoming a federation, or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (such as a birthday, accession, or removal). The national day is often an official public holiday. Many ...
Only one popular initiative made it to the ballot for this first poll of the year, the "Environmental Responsibility Initiative", supported by the youth branch of Green Party. [2]