Holiday Calendar for Guyana in June
Guyana is often considered part of the Caribbean region because of its strong cultural, historical, and political ties with other Anglo-Caribbean countries and the Caribbean Community. Guyana is the only South American nation in which English is the official language. 
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June 2025
July 2025
Sunday 6 July - CARICOM Day in Guyana (celebrated on the first Monday in July)
August 2025
Friday 1 August - Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica (Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time)
September 2025
October 2025
December 2025
Friday 26 December - Boxing Day (Belgium, Fiji, The Bahamas, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Samoa...)
January 2026
February 2026
Monday 23 February - Mashramani-Republic Day (Guyana); Mashramani Festival in Guyana (From the children smiling as all eyes are on them during the parade, to the beautifully crafted floats and beaded costumes, this is not a festival to miss if you plan on visiting Guyana in February)
March 2026
Tuesday 3 March - Phaghwa (or Holi Phagwa is considered as the famous Hindu spring festival and has got many names as per the region and the community like its knwon as Phaghwa in Bhojpuri and in west Bengal, it is known as Dolyatra)
April 2026
May 2026
Sunday 10 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
Tuesday 26 May - Guyana Independence Day (celebrates the independence of Guyana from the United Kingdom in 1966); Eid al-Adha
Global Day of Parents
The Global Day of Parents is observed on the 1st of June every year. The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 2012 with resolution A..→
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National Child’s Day
Children’s Day is recognized on various days in many places around the world to honor children globally. It was first proclaimed by the World Co..→
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Jefferson Davis’ birthday in Alabama
It is interesting to note that Abraham Lincoln was born a year or two later and within 100 miles of the place where Davis was born.
Jefferson F..→
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Birthday of Jefferson Davis in Florida
The birthday of Jefferson Davis is commemorated in several states. His actual birthday, June 3, is celebrated in Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana an..→
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Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee
In Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee,Confederate Memorial Day is observed on June 3. On this day in 1808 was the birthday of Jefferson Davis (th..→
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International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
On 19 August 1982, at its emergency special session on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly, “appalled at the great number of innocen..→
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World Environment Day
"Although individual decisions may seem small in the face of global threats and trends, when billions of people join forces in common purpo..→
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African New Year in Pennsylvania
The Odunde Festival is a one-day festival and mostly a street market catered to African-American interests and the African diaspora. It is deriv..→
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Day of the Holy Trinity. Pentecost
In Christianity, Pentecost (Day of the Holy Trinity) is celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday, inclusively (i.e., 49 days with the first day..→
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World Oceans Day
Why do we celebrate World Oceans Day?
To remind everyone of the major part the Ocean has in everyday life. They are the lungs of our planet, pr..→
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King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii
Kamehameha Day on June 11 is a public holiday of the state of Hawaii in the United States. It honors Kamehameha the Great, the monarch who first..→
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World Day Against Child Labour
The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child..→
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International Albinism Awareness Day
People with albinism face multiple forms of discrimination worldwide. Albinism is still profoundly misunderstood, socially and medically. The ph..→
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Flag Day and Army Birthday in the United States
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that d..→
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Robert La Follette Sr. Day in Wisconsin
Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) is widely regarded as Wisconsin’s most distinguished poli..→
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World Blood Donor Day
Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day ([WHO] (WHA58.13)). The event serves to thank voluntary, unp..→
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Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Ohio
The fifteenth day of June is designated as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day" to increase public awareness of the innocent victims of elder a..→
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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
The global population of people aged 60 years and older will more than double, from 542 million in 1995 to about 1.2 billion in 2025. Around 4 t..→
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International Day of Family Remittances
As per the Remittances Stats, one in every ten people around the globe is directly associated with remittances. The U.S. is the largest remittan..→
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Bunker Hill Day in Massachusetts
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War..→
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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) is observed worldwide on 17 June every year (UN: A/RES/49/115).
Tackling hunger requires a multi..→
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Emancipation Day in Texas (Juneteenth)
Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to Emancipation Day by African-Americans in Texas. On that day in 1865 Union Major-General ..→
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International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
“Women’s security and empowerment remain priorities for the Secretary-General. The international community must not rest until all violence agai..→
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Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Ohio
The nineteenth day of June is designated as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" to acknowledge the freedom, history, and culture that Ju..→
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West Virginia Day
The New River Gorge Bridge, in Fayetteville (WV), is the longest steel-arch bridge in the United States spanning 1, 815 feet across the New Rive..→
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World Refugee Day
At the end of 2013, there were 16.7 million refugees worldwide, with the highest number in Pakistan (1.6 million). We are now in 2016 witnessing..→
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Go Skateboarding Day
In effect Californians created a surfboard with wheels. California was the birthplace of the skateboarding culture. In 1976, Florida built the f..→
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International Day of Yoga
Several scholars have noted that yoga had been packaged so well as a defense against illness and aging that it is “easy to lose sight of its rea..→
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Summer Solstice (International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice)
Although summer solstice marks the beginning of summer, it is not the hottest time of the year and Earth is not the only planet to have a summer..→
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International Widows’ Day
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one-third of all women who become widowed are younger than age 60, and half of th..→
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United Nations Public Service Day
The UN General Assembly, in its resolution 57/277, designated 23 June as Public Service Day.
The UN Public Service Day intends to celebrate the..→
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Day of the Seafarer
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for measures to improve the saf..→
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International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit..→
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United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. The United Nations has condemned tortur..→
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Helen Keller Day
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person t..→
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Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Those enterprises, which generally employ fewer than 250 persons, are the backbone of most economies worldwide and play a key role in developing..→
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South Carolina Day
King Charles I of England granted the land on which South Carolina is located to Sir Robert Heath in 1629. The region was named Carolina, a word..→
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International Day of the Tropics
In the Tropics, just over 70% of people had access to electricity in 2012, up from 56% in 1990. Although access has improved considerably, it re..→
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