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Bennington Battle Day is a state holiday unique to Vermont, commemorating the victory of American and Vermont forces over British forces at the Battle of Bennington during the Amer…
Bennington Battle Day (Vermont, United States)
Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honour of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children's Day was first procl…
Children's Day (Paraguay)
Ana Petra Pérez Florido, religious name Petra of Saint Joseph, was a Spanish religious sister. She established the Congregation of the Mothers of the Forsaken and St. Joseph of the…
Christian feast day: Ana Petra Pérez Florido
Armel was an early 6th-century holy man in Brittany.
Christian feast day: Armel (Armagillus)
Saint Diomedes of Tarsus is venerated as a Greek Christian saint and martyr, being one of the Holy Unmercenaries.
Christian feast day: Diomedes of Tarsus
Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague…
Christian feast day: Roch
August 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 17
Christian feast day: August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen, was the last grand prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the first king of Hungary from 1000 or 1001 until his dea…
Christian feast day: Stephen I of Hungary
According to Christian tradition, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus Christ had be…
Christian feast day: Translation of the Acheiropoietos icon from Edessa to Constantinople. (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Gozan no Okuribi , more commonly known as Daimonji , is a festival in Kyoto, Japan. It is the culmination of the Obon festival on August 16, in which five giant bonfires are lit on…
Gozan no Okuribi (Kyoto, Japan)
National Airborne Day is a day designated by the United States Congress to honor the nation's airborne forces of the Armed Forces. It was created in 2002 by George W. Bush.
National Airborne Day (United States)
This is a list of holidays in Dominican Republic.
Restoration Day (Dominican Republic)
The first day of the Independence Days, celebrates the independence of Gabon from France in 1960.
The Xicolatada is a traditional festival celebrated in the village of Palau-de-Cerdagne in Languedoc-Roussillon. It is celebrated yearly on 16 August, and has been for over 300 yea…
Xicolatada (Palau-de-Cerdagne, France)
Beatrice of Silva, born Beatriz de Menezes da Silva, was a Portuguese noblewoman who became the foundress of the monastic Order of the Immaculate Conception. Amadeus of Portugal's …
Christian feast day: Saint Beatrice of Silva
Clare of Montefalco, also known as Saint Clare of the Cross, was born in the year of 1268 and died August 18, 1308. She was an Augustinian nun, abbess, and formerly a member of the…
Christian feast day: Saint Clare of Montefalco
Saint Elias of Enna, born John Rachites, is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Elias is also known as Saint Elias the Younger, or Junior, to disti…
Christian feast day: Elias of Enna
Hyacinth was a Polish Dominican priest and missionary who worked to reform the women's monasteries in his native Poland. Educated in Paris and Bologna, he was a Doctor of Sacred St…
Christian feast day: Saint Hyacinth of Poland
Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María, OP was a Japanese Dominican friar and Catholic priest. He worked on the 1630 Spanish edition of the Nippo Jisho, one of the first …
Christian feast day: Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga
Jeanne Delanoue, religious name Joan of the Cross, was the founder of the Congregation of St. Anne of Providence, and is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
Christian feast day: Saint Jeanne Delanoue
Saint Mammes of Caesarea was a child-martyr of the 3rd century, who was martyred at Caesarea. His parents, Theodotus and Rufina, were also martyred.
Christian feast day: Saint Mammes of Caesarea
Samuel Johnson was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America. He was a major proponent of both Anglicanism and the philosophies…
Christian feast day: Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler (Episcopal Church)
August 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 18
Christian feast day: August 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Engineer's Day is observed in several countries on various dates of the year.
Engineer's Day (Colombia)