Emancipation Day in Bermuda
Emancipation Day in Bermuda is held on August 1. Celebrated on Thursday before the first Monday in August. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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Bermuda’s Emancipation Day, as established by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, commemorates the day that people of African descent in this country were recognized as citizens rather than as property; no longer forcibly working for others, or legally sold as an object, rather than accorded basic rights as a human being, though it is recognised that the struggle still continues.
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National Heroes Day in Bermuda on June 17 (Celebrate on the third Monday of June);
Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica on August 1 (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);
Mary Prince Day or Somer’s Day in Bermuda on August 2 (celebrated on Friday before the first Monday in August);
International Day for the Prevention of Money Laundering on October 29
Boxing Day on December 26 (Belgium, Fiji, The Bahamas, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Samoa...);
Bermuda Restaurant Weeks on January 16 (Beginning on Thursday of the second full week of January);
Bermuda Triangle Challenge Marathon Weekend on January 17 (Spend from Friday to Sunday of the second full week of January. Bermuda is the perfect place for active travelers);
Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts on January 17 (started in 1976. January 17 to March, 2021)
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