Bengali New Year
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Sunday april 14, 2024
Banks only : Under the Mughals, agricultural taxes were collected according to the Hijri calendar. However, as the Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar, it does not coincide with the harvest. As a result, farmers were hard-pressed to pay taxes out of season. In order to streamline tax collection, the Mughal Emperor Akbar ordered a reform of the calendar. Accordingly, Fatehullah Shirazi, a renowned scholar and astronomer, formulated the Bangla year on the basis of the lunar Hijri and Bangla solar calendars. The new year subsequently became known as Bôngabdo or Bengali year
Labour Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
Banks only : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Birthday of José Artigas
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Wednesday june 19, 2024
Banks only : In tribute to General José Gervasio Artigas, forefather of Uruguay, born in 1764
Optional holiday
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Friday june 21, 2024
Banks only : All Souls' Day only observed by the Orthodox community
Juhannus Aatto (banks only)
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Friday june 21, 2024
Banks only : Midsummer's eve
Banks remain open
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Friday june 21, 2024
Banks only :
Midsummer's Eve or Juhannus Aatto in Finland
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Friday june 21, 2024
Banks only : Banks may remain open half day
Midsummer's Eve (banks only)
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Friday june 21, 2024
Banks only : Some banks may remain open in the morning
Banks remain open
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Saturday june 22, 2024
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Saturday june 22, 2024
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Tuesday june 25, 2024
Banks only :
Annual Closing of Reserve Bank of India
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Monday july 1, 2024
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Monday july 1, 2024
Banks only :
Banks Inventory Day
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Tuesday july 2, 2024
Banks only : Annual Closing of the Royal Bank of India (RBI)
Banks are closed
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Tuesday july 2, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Friday july 5, 2024
Banks only :
El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday july 8, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Tuesday july 16, 2024
Banks only :
Ashura
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Wednesday july 17, 2024
Banks only : Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) during his fight against injustice.
Liberation Day
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Monday july 22, 2024
Banks only : Liberation from the Japanese in 1944 by the US Armed Forces
Constitution Day
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Thursday july 25, 2024
Banks only : In 1950, the U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing Puerto Rico to draft a constitution. This is often a step toward statehood. In this case, Congress didnt mention statehood.
For two years, Puerto Rico worked on the constitution. Congress required some changes and the constitution was ratified by the voters of Puerto Rico. President Truman sent the document to the U.S. Congress for approval in April. More changes were required, made, and ratified. In July of 1952, Puerto Rico had a constitution of her own. observed from 2022
José Celso Barbosa' birthday
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Saturday july 27, 2024
Banks only : July 27, 1857 September 21, 1921) was a medical Physician, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico. Known within Puerto Rico's New Progressive Party as The father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement ,[1] Barbosa was also the first Puerto Rican earn a medical degree in the United States. [Wikipedia]
Banks close at 13:00
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Sunday july 28, 2024
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Monday august 5, 2024
Banks only :
Commerce Day
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Monday august 5, 2024
Banks only : Shop keepers and office workers are being honoured.
Bank Holiday/Picnic Day
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Monday august 5, 2024
Banks only : It was originally declared a public holiday to enable Darwin's railway workers to go to Adelaide River for a picnic.
Banks are closed
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Wednesday august 14, 2024
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Friday august 16, 2024
Banks only :
Assumption
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Monday august 19, 2024
Banks only : The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is the dogma so far defined by the Church. The definition was made by Pope Pius XII on 1st November 1950.
The Pope proclaimed: We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
Banks remain open
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Monday august 19, 2024
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Saturday august 24, 2024
Banks only :
Summer Bank Holiday (banks only)
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Monday august 26, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Tuesday august 27, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Wednesday august 28, 2024
Banks only :
Orthodox Assumption
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Wednesday august 28, 2024
Banks only : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God).
Observed by the Orthodox community.
Liberation Day
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Tuesday september 3, 2024
Banks only : On Sep. 3, 1944, American troops and Navy as well as French FFI soldiers forced the Germans out.
Banks remain open
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Wednesday september 4, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Friday september 6, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Saturday september 7, 2024
Banks only :
Our Lady of Coromoto
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Monday september 9, 2024
Banks only : A celebrated Catholic image of an alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary. In 1942, she was declared the Patroness of Venezuela.
Banks are closed
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Monday september 30, 2024
Banks only : National Day for Truth and Reconciliation from 2021
Banks Inventory Day
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Monday september 30, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Thursday october 3, 2024
Banks only :
Foundation Day
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Monday october 7, 2024
Banks only : Marks the anniversary of the establishment of the Central Treasury during the Civil War
Banks are closed
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Friday october 11, 2024
Banks only : in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Spanishness Day
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Saturday october 12, 2024
Banks only : On October 12, 1492, Christopher Colombus, a navigator from Genova, reached the New World. Numerous nations celebrate this event on October 12. In the U.S. and in Colombia, the celebration takes place on the second Monday of October.
Columbus Day
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Saturday october 12, 2024
Banks only : Commemorates the day explorer Christopher Columbus first landed in the West Indies on October 12, 1492. It is celebrated on October 12 in many American countries, but the United States and Colombia celebrate it on the 2nd Monday of October. banks & civil servants only
Columbus Day
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Monday october 14, 2024
Banks only : Commemorates the day explorer Christopher Columbus first landed in the West Indies on October 12, 1492. It is celebrated on October 12 in many American countries, but the United States and Colombia celebrate it on the 2nd Monday of October. banks & civil servants only
Banks close at 12:00
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Wednesday october 16, 2024
Banks only :
Banks close at 12:00
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Wednesday october 23, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Saturday october 26, 2024
Banks only :
Banks are closed
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Monday october 28, 2024
Banks only : José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros (26 October 1864 – 29 June 1919) was a Venezuelan physician. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, he became a highly renowned doctor, more so after his death. He was beatified by the Catholic Church in 2021.
Bank Holiday (from 13:00)
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Monday october 28, 2024
Banks only :
Banks remain open
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Thursday october 31, 2024
Banks only :