National Holidays
| Date (2010) | English name | Burmese name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 January | Independence Day | လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့ Lut lat yay nei | marks independence from British Empire in 1948 |
| 12 February | Union Day | ပြည်တောင်စုနေ့ Pyidaungzu nei | anniversary of the Panglong Agreement in 1947 |
| 26 February | Full Moon of Tabaung | တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ Tabaung la pyei nei | Tabaung pwè Pagoda Festivals |
| 2 March | Peasants Day | တောင်သူလယ်သမားနေ့ Taungthu lèthama nei | anniversary of Ne Win's coup |
| 27 March | Tatmadaw Day | တော်လှန်ရေးနေ့ Taw hlan yei nei | formerly Resistance Day (against the Japanese occupation in 1945) |
| 13 - 16 April | Water Festival | သင်္ကြန် Thingyan | celebrates and brings in the Burmese New Year |
| 17–21 April | Burmese New Year | နှစ်ဆန်းတစ်ရက်နေ့ Hnit hsan ta yet nei | marks the New Year of the Burmese calendar |
| 1 May | Labour Day | အလုပ်သမားနေ့ a louk thama nei | |
| 8 May | Full Moon of Kason | ကဆုန်လပြည့်ဗုဒ္ဓနေ့ Kason la pyei Boda nei | anniversary of the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha celebrated by watering the Bodhi tree |
| 19 July | Martyrs' Day | အာဇာနည်နေ့ Azani nei | commemorates the assassination of Aung San and several other cabinet members in 1947 |
| 26 July | Beginning of Buddhist Lent | ဝါဆိုလပြည့်နေ့ Waso la pyei nei | |
| 23 October | End of Buddhist Lent | သီတင်းကျွတ် Thadingyut | Festival of Lights |
| Oct - Nov | Diwali | ဒေဝါလီနေ့ Deiwali nei | |
| 21 November | Tazaungdaing festival | တန်ဆောင်မုန်းလပြည့်နေ့ Tazaungmon la pyei nei | Festival of Flying Lanterns/Hot-air Balloons |
| 1 December | National Day | အမျိုးသားနေ့ Amyotha nei | anniversary of the first university students strike in 1920 |
| 25 December | Christmas | ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့ Hkarissamat nei | |
| Dec - Jan | Eid ul-Adha | အိဒ်နေ့ Id nei | a festival of sacrifice at the end of Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca) |
| 5 January 2011 | Kayin (Karen) New Year | ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူး Kayin hnithiku | celebrates the New Year of the Karen people |
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