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Independence Day, observed annually on 14 August, is a national holiday in Pakistan. It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence from the United Kingdom and was dec…
Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day is an annual national memorial day observed on 14 August in India, commemorating the victims and sufferings of people during the 1947 partition of…
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in…
Armed Forces Day, known also as the Feast of the Polish Armed Forces, is a national holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in Poland, commemorating the anniversary of the 1920 vi…
Armed Forces Day (Poland)
Saint Altfrid was a leading figure in Germany in the ninth century. A Benedictine monk, he became Bishop of Hildesheim, and founded Essen Abbey. He was also a close adviser to the …
Christian feast day: Altfrid
Alypius of Thagaste was bishop of the see of Thagaste in 394. He was a lifelong friend of Augustine of Hippo and joined him in his conversion and life in Christianity. He is credit…
Christian feast day: Alypius of Thagaste
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Elvira Moragas Cantarero
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Giuliana Puricelli
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Isidore Bakanja
San La Muerte is a skeletal folk saint that is venerated in Paraguay, Argentina and southern Brazil. As a result of internal migration in Argentina since the 1960s, the veneration …
Christian feast day: San La Muerte (Paraguayan Folk Catholicism)
The Dormition of the Mother of God is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches. It celebrates the "falling asleep" (death) of Mary th…
Christian feast day: Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation (a public…
Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and n…
Christian feast day: Santa Muerte (Mexican Folk Catholicism)
Tarsicius or Tarcisius was a martyr of the early Christian church who lived in the 3rd century. The little that is known about him comes from a metrical inscription by Pope Damasus…
Christian feast day: Tarcisius
August 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 16
Christian feast day: August 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
This is a list of holidays in Equatorial Guinea.January 1: New Year's Day April 7: Good Friday May 1: Labour Day June 5: President's Day, birthday of President Teodoro Obiang Ngue…
Constitution Day (Equatorial Guinea)
The following are national holidays in Paraguay
Founding of Asunción (Paraguay)
The National Liberation Day of Korea is a public holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in both North Korea and South Korea. It commemorates the day when the Korean Peninsula was…
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Korea from Japan in 1945: Gwangbokjeol, "Independence Day" (South…
This is a list of public holidays in the Republic of Congo.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Republic of the Congo from France in 1960.
This is a list of public holidays in Liechtenstein.
National Day (Liechtenstein)
National Mourning Day is a commemorative day in Bangladesh which began in 1976. It was once a public holiday.
National Day of Mourning (Bangladesh)
Victory Day, which the Afghan Taliban call "The Proud Day of August 15", is a national holiday in Afghanistan that celebrates the 2021 capture of Kabul by the Taliban during the 20…
Victory Day (Afghanistan), celebrating the 2021 Fall of Kabul
Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947. On this day the…
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947.
The flooding of the Nile and its silt deposition was a natural cycle first attested in Ancient Egypt. It was of singular importance in the history and culture of Ancient Egypt. In …
The first day of Flooding of the Nile, or Wafaa El-Nil (Egypt and Coptic Church)
The Awa Dance Festival is held from 12 to 15 August as part of the Obon festival in Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku in Japan. Awa Odori is the largest dance festival in Japan, att…
The main day of Bon Festival (Japan), and its related observances: Awa Dance Festival (Tokushima Prefecture)
The Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead is an official, secular ceremony conducted annually on August 15, the day officially viewed as the end of the war in Japan, by the Japanese …
Victory over Japan Day (United Kingdom), and its related observances: End-of-war Memorial Day, when the National…