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Cultural, family, and remembrance catalogues

Concepts defined by the shared catalogues in this theme. A region pack imports the concepts it observes and supplies its own territory scope and non-working status - see the region pages. The When column is a one-phrase gloss, not the calculation recipe.

global-cultural

Concept Category Non-working When
Valentine's Day Cultural - Fixed 14 Feb
International Mother Language Day Cultural - Fixed 21 Feb
World Poetry Day Cultural - Fixed 21 Mar
World Theatre Day Cultural - Fixed 27 Mar
April Fool's Day Cultural - Fixed 1 Apr
International Jazz Day Cultural - Fixed 30 Apr
Star Wars Day Cultural - Fixed 4 May
Cinco de Mayo Cultural - Fixed 5 May
World Music Day Cultural - Fixed 21 Jun
International Friendship Day Cultural - Fixed 30 Jul
Halloween Cultural - Fixed 31 Oct

Observed by: AU, FR

global-family

Concept Category Non-working When
Mother's Day Observance - 2nd Sun May
Father's Day Observance - 3rd Sun Jun

Observed by: AU

global-family-social

Concept Category Non-working When
Friendship Day Observance - 1st Sun Aug
Grandparents Day Observance - 1st Sun Sep

global-remembrance

Concept Category Non-working When
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Remembrance - Fixed 27 Jan
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Remembrance - Fixed 21 Mar
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Remembrance - Fixed 23 Aug
Remembrance Day Remembrance - Fixed 11 Nov

Observed by: AU

Generated from the notable-date XML resources by Bodu.Globalization.Calendar/Generate-NotableDateCatalogue.ps1. Regenerated (UTC): 2026-09-09T03:00:56Z. For the calculation recipes deliberately omitted here, see Territories and regional composition, Working with non-Gregorian calendars, and Holiday patterns; for the API, the Bodu.Globalization.Calendar namespace.

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