Holidays Possibly in March



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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
 
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
  • Pace Monday (a/k/a Pace Day) - in Scotland
  • Egg Salad Week
 

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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last edited Sunday, December 25, 2005