Holidays in the UK and the USA Barbora Navrátilová 4.B.

Holidays in the UK and the USA

Barbora Navrátilová4.B

January

• 1st – New Year’s Day• 25th – Burns’ Night (Scotland)• 3rd Monday in January-Martin Luther King

Day(USA)

February

• 12st-Abraham Lincoln´s birthday(USA)• 14st – Valentine’s Day• 17th – Shrove Tuesday or ‘Pancake Day’(GB)• 19th – Chinese New Year• 3rd Monday in Ferbuary-President´s

Day(USA)• 22st-George Washington´s birthday(USA)

March

• 1st – St David’s Day (Wales)• 15th – Mother’s Day(GB)• 17th – St Patrick’s Day (Northern Ireland+USA)

April

• 1st – April Fools’ Day(GB)• 3rd–6th – Easter weekend(GB)• 23rd – St George’s Day (England), William

Shakespeare’s birthday(GB)• Sunday immediately following Good Friday-

Easter(USA)

May

• 1st – Beltane(GB)• 4th and 25th – Bank holidays(GB)• 2nd Sunday in May-Mother´s Day(USA)• Last Monday in May-Memorial Day(USA)

June

• 13th – The Queen’s Official Birthday(GB)• 21st – Father’s Day(GB)• 21st – Summer solstice(GB)• 3rd Sunday in June-Father´s Day• 29th–July 12th – Wimbledon Tennis

Championships(GB)

July

• 4th - Independence Day(USA)• 17th – Eid al-Fitr(GB)

August

• 1st–8th – Eisteddfod(GB)• 7th–31st – Edinburgh Festival Fringe(GB)• 31st – Notting Hill Carnival(GB)

September

• 1st Monday in September-Labor Day(USA)• 18th–22nd – London Fashion Week(GB)

October

• 2nd Monday in October-Columbus Day(USA)• 31st – Halloween

November

• All month – Movember• 5th – Bonfire night(GB)• 11th – Diwali(GB)• 11th – Remembrance Day(GB)• 11th - Veterans Day(USA)• 4th Thursday in November-Thanksgiving

Day(USA)• 30th – St Andrew’s Day (Scotland)

December

• 6th–14th – Hanukkah(Jewish)• 25th – Christmas• 26th – Boxing Day(GB)• 26th-1st -January-Kwanzaa• 31st – New Year´s Eve