Vanuatu Independence Day
Vanuatu Independence Day is held on July 30. Celebrates the independence of Vanuatu from the United Kingdom and France in 1980. This event in the third decade of the month July is annual. 
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In Vanuatu it is usually a nine day public holiday. and festival celebrating the independence. This s the most important national holiday in Vanuatu and is celebrated jubilantly throughout the country with the largest celebrations taking place in the capital, Port Vila.
The name of Vanuatu, from two local words meaning ‘home’ and ‘stand’ was adopted on independence in 1980.
The islands were discovered and claimed in 1606 by Spain which had a short-lived settlement there before they were forgotten again. The islands were rediscovered in 1768 and in 1774, Captain James Cook named them the New Hebrides.
Despite an unsuccessful attempt in mid-1980 by Jimmy Stevens, the Na-Griamel Party leader, to establish the independence of the island of Espiritu Santo from the rest of the group, the New Hebrides became independent within the Commonwealth under the name of the Republic of Vanuatu on July 30, 1980.
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Feast day of the Assumption of Mary on August 15 (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu);
Constitution Day in Vanuatu on October 5
Unity Day in Vanuatu on November 29
Family Day in Vanuatu on December 26
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