April - April Holidays and Events

April Holidays and Events

  • Jazz Appreciation Month (United States)
  • National Poetry Month (United States)
  • National Poetry Writing Month
  • Confederate History Month (southern United States)-April 26
  • National Arab American Heritage Month (United States)
  • National Child Abuse Prevention Month (United States)
  • April Fools' Day – April 1
  • April 1 is the first day of Japanese fiscal year. Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki (entry ceremony for companies) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.
  • Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki (entry ceremony for schools) are usually held later, around second week of April.
  • Good Friday (Christians) – a Friday between March 20 and April 23, being the last Friday before Easter
  • Easter, or Resurrection Day (Christians) - celebrated the First Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox, near March 21st (between March 22 and April 25)
  • International Trombone Week - varies. In 2012, it is April 1–15
  • Arbor Day (Korea) – April 5
  • End of Tax Year (UK) – April 5
  • Passover (Hebrew:פסח) a Jewish holiday
  • World Health Day – April 7
  • Buddha's Birthday – Traditional Date – April 8
  • Araw ng Kagitingan, also known as "Bataan Day" (Philippines) – April 9
  • Thai New Year in Thailand – April 13
  • Lao New Year in Laos – April 13
  • Burmese New Year in Burma - April 13
  • Khmer New Year in Cambodia – April 13
  • Tax Day (US) – April 15
  • National Healthcare Decisions Day (US) - April 16
  • Boston Marathon – Third Monday
  • Zimbabwean Independence Day – April 18
  • 4:20 – April 20
  • Patriots' Day – April 21
  • Earth Day – April 22
  • Conch Republic Independence Celebration (Key West, Florida) – April 23
  • St George's Day Patron Saint Celebration (England, Europe) – April 23
  • Armenian Genocide Day Armenian Genocide remembrance day – April 24
  • Liberation Day in Italy - April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.
  • ANZAC Day (Australia and New Zealand) – April 25
  • Carnation Revolution (Portugal) – April 25
  • Confederate Memorial Day (US: Georgia, Tennessee,Florida, Texas)- April 26
  • Resistance day in Slovenia - formerly Liberation Front of the Slovene People day April 27
  • Freedom Day (South Africa) – April 27
  • April 29 is a Japanese national holiday, as Shōwa Day since 2007. It has been celebrated as The Emperor's Birthday from 1927 to 1988, then renamed as Greenery Day after Hirohito's death in 1989. It is usually marked as the first day of "Golden Week", a week-long holiday period.
  • Koninginnedag in the Netherlands / Kingdom of the Netherlands – April 30
  • Arbor Day – last Friday of April in some states in the United States http://www.arborday.org/
  • Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day, usually fourth Thursday (United States)
  • London Marathon – usually fourth Sunday
  • Opening Day – first Sunday in April
  • Independence day (Syria) – April 17
  • Record Store Day – usually celebrated on the third Saturday
  • Financial Literacy Month (United States)

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