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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 ...
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.
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
The Sansculottides, named after the sans-culottes, append the twelve, 30-day months of the Republican Calendar with five complementary days in a common year or six complementary days in a leap year, so that the calendar year would approximately match the tropical year. They follow the last day of Fructidor, the last month of the year, and ...
For companies on a calendar quarter, Q2 brings the all-important tax deadline for the prior year of April 15. It also includes the mid-point of the year, which is a great time to look both forward ...
Because evening out the lengths of the months is part of the rationale for reforming the calendar, some reform calendars, such as the World Calendar and the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar, contain a 30-day February. The Symmetry454 calendar assigns 35 days to February, May, August, and November, as well as December in a leap year.
Each year when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing one song in unison. "Auld Lang Syne" has long been a hit at New Year's parties in the U.S. as people join ...
[f] From 1155 to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March ; [10] [11] so for example, the execution of Charles I was recorded at the time in Parliament as happening on 30 January 1648 (Old Style). [12] In newer English-language texts, this date is usually shown as "30 January 1649" (New Style). [13]