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20 April: National Consumer Day: Hari Konsumen Nasional: 2012 [13] 21 April: Kartini Day: Hari Kartini "Women Emancipation Day". The birthday of Kartini, an Indonesian women's rights activist. [14] 22 April: Earth Day: Hari Bumi: United Nations observance. 25 April: Regional Autonomy Day: Hari Otonomi Daerah: 1996 [15] 28 April: National Poetry ...
Twelver Shia Muslims believe the Islamic new year is the first of Rabi' al-Awwal rather than Muharram, due to it being the month in which the Hijrah took place. [6] This has led to difference regarding description of the years in which some events took place, such as the Muharram-occurring battle of Karbala , which Shias say took place in 60 AH ...
1 Muharram August 31, 2019 Islamic New Year: 1-10 Muharram August 31-September 9, 2019 Bibi-Ka-Alam: event held in Hyderabad, India: 2 Muharram September 1, 2019 Shia day of Mourning: Arrival of Imam Hussain in Karbalā, 61 A.H. 3 Muharram September 2, 2019 Shia day of Mourning: Water supply to Imam Husain & his companions was stopped in Karbalā
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar, also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
The Islamic calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently it is 10 to 11 days shorter than the solar year, and as it contains no intercalation, [a] Ramadan migrates throughout the seasons.
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An event for 1 Suro in Surakarta City, 2023. Satu Suro (Javanese: ꦱꦶꦗꦶꦱꦸꦫ, Siji Suro) is the first day of the Javanese calendar year in the month of Suro (also transcribed "Sura"), corresponding with the first Islamic month of Muharram. [1] It is mainly celebrated in Java, Indonesia, and by Javanese people living elsewhere. [2]
Updated December 25, 2024 at 1:11 PM JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images This year, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah will fall on the same day as Christmas for the first time ...