Holidays Possibly in March



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by natural event

Full Moon Day of 3rd lunar month

  •  Macha Puja Day - in Thailand

15th Day of 1st Moon of lunar calendar

  •  Lantern Festival and Tourism Day - in Taiwan

19th Day of 2nd Moon of lunar calendar

  •  Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy - in Taiwan
 
Gregorian calendar

Sometime in March

  •  International Leisure Suit Convention

last Monday in March or first in April

 
African calendar

1st Day of 1st month of Ibo calendar, set as vernal equinox

  •  Ibu Afo Festival - in Nigeria
 
Christian calendar

Sunday before Easter

  •  Palm Sunday
  •  Fig Sunday
  •  Fig Pudding Day
 

Between Palm Sunday & Easter

  •  Ra-Ra in Haiti
 

Wednesday before Easter

  •  Spy Wednesday
 

Thursday before Easter

  •  Maundy Thursday
  •  Sheer Thursday - f/k/a Skire Thursday
  •  Procession of the Addolorata - in Italy
 

Friday before Easter

  •  Good Friday
  •  Long Rope Day
  •  Procession of the Mysteries
  •  Ex-spouses Day
 

Saturday before Easter

  •  Easter Even
 

2nd Sunday in Lent

  •  Mid-Lent Sunday
  •  Braggot Sunday - in Lancashire, UK
 

7 days leading up to Easter starting on Palm Sunday and ending on Easter

  •  Holy Week
  •  Great Week
 

Day before Easter

  •  Vigil of Easter
  •  Procession of Icon of St. Lazarus - in Cyprus
 

1st Sunday after 1st full moon or after the Vernal Equinox (always between 3/22 & 4/25)

 

Monday after Easter

  •  Ball Day
  •  Anden Paaskedag - in Denmark
  •  Emaishen - in Luxembourg
  •  Egg Salad Week
  •  Pace Monday (a/k/a Pace Day) - in Scotland
 

Monday after Coptic Easter

  •  Sham al-Neseem - in Egypt
 

Monday after Easter

  •  Festival of the Sardine - in Spain
 

Sunday after Easter

  •  Quasimodo Sunday
  •  Low Sunday
  •  Low Easterday
 

2nd Tuesday after Easter

  •  Hock Tuesday (a/k/a Hock Day)
  •  Tutti Day - in Berkshire, UK
 

2 weeks after Shrove Tuesday

  •  Fasnacht - in Switzerland
 

4th Sunday in Lent

  •  Mothering Sunday a/k/a Mother’s Day - in England
  •  Bretzelsonndeg (Pretzel Sunday) - in Luxembourg
  •  Laetare Sunday
  •  Simnel Sunday
 

5th Sunday in Lent

  •  Care Sunday
  •  Passion Sunday
  •  Patient Sunday
  •  Carling Sunday
 
 
Buddhist calendar
 
 
Hebrew calendar

14th Day of Nisan, 7th Jewish month - in not including the intercalary month

  •  Passover begins
 
 
Hindu calendar

9th Day of bright 1/2 of Chaitra, 1st Hindu month - in @ Mar/Apr

  •  Ram Navami
 

10th Day of bright 1/2 of Chaitra, 1st Hindu month - in @ Mar/Apr

  •  Meenakshi Kalyana
 
 
Islamic calendar

12th Day of Rabi I, 3rd Islamic month

  •  Maulid al-Nabi
 
 
other calendars

the first visible crescent moon after the Vernal Equinox


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