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On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 9 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
December 12 is the 346th day of the year ... 1999 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main island of Luzon, ... Holidays and observances
Independence Day [1] (Filipino: Araw ng Kasarinlán; also known as Araw ng Kalayaan, "Day of Freedom") is a national holiday in the Philippines observed annually on June 12, [2] commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898. [2] Since 1978, it has been the country's National Day.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. ← 2018 2017 2016 2019 in the Philippines → 2020 2021 2022 Decades: 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also: List of years in the Philippines films music television sports 2019 in the Philippines details events of note that have occurred in the Philippines in 2019. Incumbents For the ...
Computer Science Education Week (December 6-12) Las Posadas (December 16-24) ... December 11. Holiday Food Drive for Needy Animals Day. International Mountain Day. National App Day.
If a holiday falls on a non-working day for the employee, the employee is not compensated. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed Proclamation No. 1211 in January 2007 declaring Independence Day which falls on June 12 a working holiday, and the day before a non-working holiday – effectively moving the holiday. However rites organized by the ...
It is celebrated as a public holiday in the country on December 25, concurrent with other countries. As one of the two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia (the other one being East Timor), the Philippines celebrates the world's longest Christmas season (Filipino: Kapaskuhan), [1] [3] spanning what it refers to as the "ber months".
There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the Philippines, the majority of which are in the barangay (village) level. Due to the thousands of town, city, provincial, national, and village fiestas in the country, the Philippines has traditionally been known as the Capital of the World's Festivities.