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Australia Day: 26 January, or if 26 January is a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday. Good Friday: on the date it is publicly observed, always a Friday. The day after Good Friday: Always a Saturday, one day after Good Friday. Easter Monday: The next Monday after Good Friday. Anzac Day: 25 April, or if 25 April is a Sunday, 26 April.
The first year in which all the Australian states observed some form of public holiday together on Anzac Day was 1927. [7] By the mid-1930s, all the rituals now associated with the day – dawn vigils, marches, memorial services, reunions, two-up games – became part of Australian Anzac Day culture. [6]
The Anzac Day Act 1995 in Australia is a Federal Commonwealth Act, to declare Anzac Day on 25 April to be a national day of commemoration to "recognise and commemorate the contribution of all those who have served Australia (including those who died) in time of war and in war‑like conflicts" [1] to be observed on 25 April every year.
Anzac Day originally commemorated a battle on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War One. At dawn on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ...
Anzac Day is a day of remembrance in Queensland, Australia. It is a public holiday held on 25 April each year. It is a public holiday held on 25 April each year. The date is significant as the Australian and New Zealand troops (the ANZACs ) first landed at Gallipoli in World War I on 25 April 1915.
In 2000 and 2011, this created a five-day weekend over Easter: in 2000, Easter Monday fell on 24 April, with the following Tuesday, 25 April, then being ANZAC Day; in 2011, ANZAC Day and Easter Monday coincided on Monday 25 April, which led to a substitute public holiday being declared in Australia for Tuesday 26 April, [5] and likely ...
Mark the Evangelist, 25 April (or 26 April if ANZAC Day is observed on the 25th) Philip and James, 1 May or 3 May; Barnabas, 11 June; The Birth of John the Baptist, 24 June; Peter and Paul, 29 June; Mary Magdalene, 22 July; James, 25 July; Transfiguration of Jesus, 6 August; Mary (mother of Jesus), 15 August; Bartholomew, 24 August; Matthew, 21 ...
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. 1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.