Fiji : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Sunday May 8, 2022 | Mothers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Monday May 30, 2022 | Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day | cards/flowers | |
Friday June 24, 2022 | National Sports Day | Sports events | |
Saturday June 25, 2022 | Public Service day | Events, celebrations... | |
Friday July 8, 2022 | Winter holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday July 18, 2022 | Winter holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Sunday September 4, 2022 | Fathers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Wednesday September 7, 2022 | Constitution Day | Secular holiday | |
Friday October 7, 2022 | Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day) | Muslim, Sufi | |
Monday October 10, 2022 | Fiji Day | National Day | |
Tuesday October 25, 2022 | Deepavali/Dipabali | Hinduism | |
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 8, 2022
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day
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Monday May 30, 2022
cards/flowers : Grandson of King Thakombau, the last king of Fiji (until 1874), Mr. Sukuna joined the French Legion during WW1. He was highly honored and even has a monument in Souain-Perthes-les Hurlus (France), as a horseman
National Sports Day
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Friday June 24, 2022
Sports events : To recognise the value of contribution sports has made towards national development.
Public Service day
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Saturday June 25, 2022
Culture : Showcase of the country's administrative facilities
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday July 8, 2022
School holidays :
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday July 18, 2022
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday September 4, 2022
cards/flowers :
Constitution Day
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Wednesday September 7, 2022
Secular holiday : Fiji's fourth constitution was signed into law by President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau in September 2013. It is the first to eliminate race-based electoral rolls, race-based seat quotas, district-based representation, the unelected upper chamber, and the role of the hereditary Council of Chiefs. It vests sole legislative authority in a single-chamber, 50-seat, at-large Parliament.
Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Friday October 7, 2022
Muslim, Sufi :
Fiji Day
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Monday October 10, 2022
Secular holiday : Independence granted by the UK in 1970
Deepavali/Dipabali
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Tuesday October 25, 2022
Hinduism :