Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
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Sunday April 9, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
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Monday April 10, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
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Tuesday April 11, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
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Wednesday April 12, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Thingyan Water Festival
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Thursday April 13, 2023
Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Thingyan Water Festival
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Friday April 14, 2023
Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Thingyan Water Festival
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Saturday April 15, 2023
Secular holiday : Starts the Burmese New Year. Thingyan, from the Sanskrit samkranta (fully passed over), celebrates the passage of the sun from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries in zodiac. As in Thailand's Songkran or in Laos, it is celebrated by throwing buckets of cold water at all passers-by. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
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Sunday April 16, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Myanmar's New Year - Maha Thingyan
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Monday April 17, 2023
Secular holiday : Water festival - Lasts 3 days
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
Secular holiday : 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 .
Kason Full Moon Day
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Wednesday May 3, 2023
Secular holiday : Kason is a local month falling in April-May
Beginning of school year (public schools)
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Thursday June 1, 2023
School holidays :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday June 29, 2023
cards/flowers : The second main celebration of Islam. It cele ates A aham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia.
Martyrs Day
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Wednesday July 19, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the assassination of independence leaders in 1947
Waso Robe Donation Ceremony
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Tuesday August 1, 2023
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Lasts 2 weeks
Taung Byone festival
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Tuesday August 1, 2023
Culture : Five days of interage festivities and Nat dancing.