Public Holidays
Some Tongan holidays are based upon the Christian faith, which include Easter with its preceding Friday and following Monday and both Christmas days (but not Pentecost, Ascuncion, etc.). Tonga also celebrates New Year's Day on January 1 and Anzac Day on April 25. Tonga's unique holidays are: Emancipation day on June 4, Crownprince's birthday on July 12, the King's official birth- and coronation day on August 1, National Tonga day on November 4 (formerly known as Constitution day) and King George Tupou I's installation as Tuʻi Kanokupolu on December 4, often misnamed as his birthday. Since the promulgation of new holidays on December 6, 2006, May 4 and July 4 are no longer public holidays.
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