History of the Holidays_ Nov1, All Saints' Day
Nov 1, All Saints Day
A Public Holiday in nearly 50 countries, All Saints’ Day is celebrated on November 1st as a commemoration day for all Christian saints. It may also be known as All Hallows' Day, Solemnity of All Saints, Hallowmas, or Feast of Saints.
The origin of All Saints' Day may date back to a Greek Christian tradition from the 4th century, when a festival was held to honour saints and martyrs on the Sunday following Pentecost.
The first recorded All Saints’ Day occurred on May 13th 609 CE when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon in Rome as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. The Pope dedicated the day as a holiday to honour the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs. In 835 CE, during the reign of Pope Gregory III, the festival was moved to November 1st and was expanded to include the honouring of all saints.
It is likely that November 1st was intentionally chosen to replace the pagan feast of the dead, Samhain. The night before Samhain was a time when evil spirits roamed the land looking for humans. To confuse the spirits, people would dress up as creatures. This tradition carried on after November 1st became a Christian festival, hence the name of Halloween - which is a shortened version of All Hallows' Eve.
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Nov 1, 🇮🇳 India (many regions), 🇫🇯 Fiji, 🇲🇲 Myanmar, 🇸🇷 Suriname: Diwali
Happy #Diwali!! Some countries will celebrate Diwali with a holiday today.
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Oct 31_ Halloween History 🎃
October 31, #Halloween 👻🎃
Not a Public Holiday
Ireland is the birthplace of the Halloween festival as Halloween takes its roots from the old Celtic festival Samhain Eve, when it was believed that the link between the worlds of living and dead was at its strongest. Samhain means Summer's End and was essentially a harvest festival and a time to ask for supernatural support to get through the coming winter.
Many of the Celtic Halloween traditions live on in Ireland today and were brought to America by Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century.
Nowadays, Halloween has grown to become the second largest commercial holiday in the United States.
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Holidays in a Hurry - Diwali
Oct 31, 🇮🇳 India, 🇬🇾 Guyana, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇲🇺 Mauritius, 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, 🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago: Diwali
Happy #Diwali!! In these countries and for Hindus around the world, celebrates the triumph of good over evil, purity over impurity, light over darkness.
The Festival of Lights takes place on the darkest night (first night of the new moon) in the month of Kartik in the Hindu calendar.
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October 29th_ Turkish Republic Day
Oct 29, 🇹🇷 Turkey: Republic Day
Republic Day (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Bayramı) is the National Day of Turkey, and is always celebrated on October 29th. The holiday commemorates the proclamation of the Turkish republic on October 29th 1923.
Following the defeat of the Ottomans in World War I, the allies had occupied Turkey as part of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. An uprising of Turkish nationalists led to the Turkish war of independence (1919 -1923). The allies left Turkish regions in July 1923. Mustafa Kemal, the leader of the Turkish troops was named the first president on 29 October 29th 1923 when the Turkish republic was proclaimed in the new capital, Ankara.
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Oct 27, 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Independence Day
On October 27th 1979, following a referendum, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence from the UK.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is a southern Caribbean nation consisting of 32 islands, of which nine are inhabited.
The first contact with Europeans took place on January 22nd 1498 when Christopher Columbus sighted the main island naming it after Saint Vincent whose feast day is January 22nd.
The Spanish didn't settle and over the centuries, possession of the islands was disputed by the British, French and Spanish and nobly resisted by the Caribs who had lived on the islands since before the arrival of the colonists.
Britain won the European rights to the islands under the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, with a plantation economy based on sugar and slave trading emerging in the 19th century.
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October 26th_ Austrian National Day
Austria's National Day on October 26th commemorates the Declaration of Neutrality enacted on this day in 1955.
#dyk - The Austrian flag is one of the oldest national flags. The red and white stripes are first recorded in 1191, when Duke Leopold V fought in the siege of Acre during the Third Crusade.
The declaration was a direct result of the allied occupation by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France between 1945 and 1955. The Soviet Union would not have agreed to the signing of a State Treaty in May 1955 if Austria had not committed itself to declare its neutrality after the allied forces had left the country. The final foreign troops left Austria on October 25th 1955.
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History of the Holidays_ Columbus Day
Oct 14, 🇺🇸 USA: Columbus Day (Federal and 21 states)
This U.S. federal holiday commemorates the date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas. In the USA it is observed on the Second Monday in October.
Though Columbus Day is one of the 10 U.S. legal federal holidays, it is not considered a major one. Columbus' voyages across the Atlantic Ocean initiated the European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
While the first voyage in 1492 was immensely significant, Columbus did not actually reach the American mainland until his third voyage in 1498. Colorado was the first US state to make Columbus Day an official holiday and Franklin Roosevelt established the first federal observance of Columbus Day in 1937.
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Oct 14, 🇨🇦 Canada: Thanksgiving (except New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)
On Thanksgiving, Canadians give thanks for a successful year and harvest.
The Thanksgiving holiday tradition in Canada dates back to when the English explorer, Martin Frobisher, came upon the land we now know as Canada while searching for a Northern passage to the Orient.
When Frobisher arrived in Canada on his third voyage in 1578, he held a formal ceremony where he gave thanks for surviving the long journey - one of his ships had been lost on the way. Frobisher celebrated with salt beef and peas. South of the border, it would be another 43 years before the Pilgrims sat down to celebrate their first Thanksgiving meal.
Thanksgiving became a nationally recognised holiday in Canada in 1879.
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Durga Puja
Oct 13, 🇧🇩 Bangladesh, 🇮🇳 India (many states): Durga Puja
Durga Puja is a Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates the worship of the goddess Durga. Durga Puja celebrates the ten-armed mother goddess, and her victory over the buffalo demon Mahishasura.
The festival that began on October 6th with Mahalaya culminates today, though it may be celebrated as the end of Navratri or as part of Dussehra in different parts of India.
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Dussehra-2023
Oct 13, 🇮🇳 India (Many states), 🇳🇵 Nepal: Dussehra
In India, the festival of Dussehra symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, when Lord Rama defeated the powerful King Ravana.
It may be known in some regions as Vijayadashami and in parts of southern India, it is known as Dasara. Other regional spellings include Dashera and Dussera.
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Oct 4, 🇮🇱 Israel: Rosh Hashanah
Second of two days of public holidays for the Jewish Holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Generally known as the New Year's Day of the Jewish calendar, it marks the start of the civic calendar.
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Oct 3, 🇩🇪 Germany: German Unity Day
Since 1990, the 'Tag der Deutschen Einheit' has been a national holiday in Germany. To celebrate, here are some interesting facts about Germany.
The reunification of Germany took place on 3 October 1990, when the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
German Unification Day wasn't added as an additional holiday. In the west, it replaced the original Day of German Unity, which an anniversary of a protest on 17 June 1953 in East Germany.
In East Germany, the national holiday was 7 October, the Day of the Republic (Tag der Republik), which commemorated the foundation of the GDR in 1949.
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Oct 2, 🇬🇳 Guinea: Independence Day
This is the National Day of Guinea and marks the country becoming an independent republic on October 2nd 1958.
Located on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, the area now known as Guinea came under European influence from the 15th century with the arrival of Portuguese explorers. The French arrived to stake a claim on the area in the mid-19th century, with the ruler of Fouta Djallon placing his territory under French protection in 1881. As French Guinea, it joined the Federation of French West Africa in 1895.
In 1958 the French Fourth Republic collapsed due to political instability. In the referendum on the constitution for the French Fifth Republic, only Guinea—under the influence of Ahmed Sékou Touré, the great-grandson of Samory Touré, voted against membership in the French Community. On October 2nd 1958 Guinea became independent, with Sekou Touré as the new country's first president.
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Oct 2, 🇮🇳 India: Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday 🎂 #gandhijayanti
155 years ago today, the "Father of the Nation" was born. This public holiday is one of three official declared National Holidays of India and is observed in all its states and territories.
Gandhi was born on October 2nd 1869 and was a major political and spiritual leader within India. He was a pioneer of Satyagraha, which believed in resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon total non-violence. The movement led India to independence and his efforts have since inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
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