February's Movable Holidays

See also:  holidays possibly in February,  February

1st Sunday

• Homstrom - features the burning of straw men on poles, symbolizing Old Man Winter departing
  • 2003:  February 2
  • 2004:  February 7
  • 2005:  February 6
  • 2006:  February 5
•  Super Bowl Sunday - February 5, 2006

1st weekend

• Sapporo Snow Festival - in Japan
• Everglades City Seafood Festival - in Florida
• Badger State Winter Games - in Wisconsin
• Mackinaw Mush Sled Dog Race - in Mackinaw City, Michigan
• Bullnanza - in Guthrie, Oklahoma

1st Friday after Feb. 1st

• Arbor Day

2nd Sunday

• Boy Scouts Sabbath

2nd Monday

• Clean Out Your Computer Day
• Meal Monday - a/k/a Oatmeal Monday; at UK Universities

2nd Tuesday

• Academy Award nominations announced

Monday after the 1st Thursday

• Gasparilla Pirate Invasion Festival begins - in Tampa, Florida

Sunday nearest the 12th

• Race Relations Sunday

3rd Sunday before Lent

• Lost Sunday
• Septuagesima Sunday

2nd Sunday before Lent

• Sexagesima Sunday

3rd Weekend

• Midwinter Bluegrass festival - in Missouri

Saturday before President's Day

• George Washington Birthnight Banquet and Ball - in Alexandria, Virginia

3rd Monday

• President's Day

Sunday nearest the 22nd

• Brotherhood Sunday

Sunday before Lent

• Fasching Sunday - in Germany & Austria
• Shrove Sunday
• Fastingong Sunday
• Quinquagesima Sunday

Day after Fasching Sunday

• Fasching

first Sunday in Lent

• Burgsonndeg Fire Festival - celebrates the end of winter in Luxembourg

Fridays during Lent

• Fariseos - Mayan Indian celebration making fun of Christian ceremonies

12 Days before Shrove Tuesday

• Nice Carnival begins - in France

Week before Carnival

• Kiddies' Carnival - in Trinidad & Tobago

Thursday before Shrove Tuesday

• Mad Thursday
• Tincunaco Ceremony - in Argentina

Sunday before Ash Wednesday

• Carnival Week begins - in Italy
• Shrovetide begins

Saturday before Ash Wednesday

• Carnival begins - in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Ovar Carnival Festival begins - in Portugal

day before Shrove Tuesday

• Rose Monday
• Fastelavn - in Shrove Monday; Denmark
• Bun Day - in Iceland
• Collp Monday
• Street Urchins' Carnival - in Denmark

day before Ash Wednesday - in also 46 Days Before Easter

• Shrove Tuesday
• Carnival
• Mardi Gras
• Pancake Day - a/k/a Pancake Tuesday
• Carriacou Carnival - in Grenada
• Bursting Day - in Iceland
• Fastens-een - in Scotland
• Brose and Bannock Day - in Scotland
• Fasten Day - in Old England
• Shuttlecock Day - in Leicester, Yorkshire
• Nickanan Night - in Cornwall
• Paczki Day - in Hamtramck, Michigan
• Sharp Tuesday
• Football Day - in England
• Shrovetide Pancake Race - in Olney, UK & Liberal, Kansas

40 days before Easter - in not including Sundays

• Ash Wednesday
• Lent begins
• Cussing Day
• Pulver Wednesday

2nd day of Lent

• Cat Festival - in Belgium

Thursday after Shrove Tuesday

• Fritter Thursday

Friday after Shrove Tuesday

• Kissing Day
• Nippy Lug Day - in Westmoreland, UK

1st Sunday in Lent

• Quadragesima Sunday

1st Monday after Lent

• Blue Monday
• Green Monday - in Cyprus

last Tuesday

• Spay Day USA - Americans are encouraged to help control the pet population
  • 2004:  February 23

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last edited Saturday, February 18, 2006