Major World Holidays
This December holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.
What is Christmas
Independence Day in the United States is celebrated on this date.
What is July 4th?
People carve pumpkins for this October holiday.
What is Halloween?
This holiday celebrates national independence in Canada.
What is Canada Day
This holiday celebrates love and romance on February 14.
What is Valentines Day
This Islamic holiday marks the end of Ramadan.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
This holiday began as a harvest festival in colonial America.
What is Thanksgiving?
This holiday tradition includes hiding decorated eggs.
What is Easter
This Brazilian festival is famous for parades, samba, and costumes.
What is Carnival?
This holiday encourages costumes and candy collecting.
What is Halloween
This Jewish holiday commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
What is Hanukkah
This ancient Roman festival helped inspire modern Valentine’s Day.
What is Lupercalia?
Fireworks are commonly used to celebrate this holiday worldwide.
What is New Year’s Eve?
This Japanese holiday celebrates children and is marked by koi fish flags.
What is Children’s Day (Kodomo no Hi)?
This unofficial holiday celebrates fans of science fiction, observed on May 4th.
What is Star Wars Day
This holiday celebrates the Lunar New Year and is widely observed in East Asia.
What is Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year)?
This holiday honors Martin Luther King Jr. and became a U.S. federal holiday in 1986.
What is MLK day
In Spain, people celebrate this holiday by throwing tomatoes at each other.
What is La Tomatina?
This South African holiday celebrates freedom and the end of apartheid.
What is Freedom Day?
This day promotes environmental awareness worldwide.
What is Earth Day
This Hindu festival of lights symbolizes the victory of good over evil.
What is Diwali?
This Mexican holiday honoring the dead has roots in Aztec traditions.
What is Día de los Muertos?
This holiday includes fasting from sunrise to sunset for an entire month.
What is Ramadan?
This Thai holiday involves water fights and marks the traditional New Year.
What is Songkran?
This unofficial shopping holiday follows Thanksgiving in the U.S.
What is Black Friday