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Public holidays in Thailand are regulated by the government, and most are observed by both the public and private sectors. There are usually nineteen public holidays in a year, but more may be declared by the cabinet. Other observances, both official and non-official, local and international, are observed to varying degrees throughout the ...
The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar ( Anno Domini ), so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567. The lunar calendar contains 12 or 13 months in a year, with 15 waxing moon and 14 or 15 waning moon days in a month, amounting to years of 354, 355 or 384 days.
Lantern Festival (in China) Tết Nguyên Tiêu (in Vietnam)[ 3] Māgha Pūjā (also written as Makha Bucha Day) is a Buddhist festival celebrated on the full moon day of the third lunar month [ 7] in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka and on the full moon day of Tabaung in Myanmar. It is the second most important Buddhist festival after Vesak ...
On 20 February 2023, Americans will celebrate Presidents’ Day, an annual holiday that began in honour of George Washington.. The federal holiday, which is now used to celebrate both past and ...
Thailand, c. 1845. Chester Beatty Library. The Thai lunar calendar ( Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ, RTGS : patithin chanthrakhati, pronounced [pà.tì.tʰīn t͡ɕān.tʰrá (ʔ).kʰā.tìʔ], literally, Specific days according to lunar norms ), or Tai calendar, is a lunisolar Buddhist calendar. It is used for calculating ...
Songkran is on 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to seven days, 9–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday. [4] In 2019, the holiday was observed 9–16 April as 13 April fell on a Saturday. [5]
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18 June –. The Senate votes 130-4 to legalise same-sex marriage, making Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to approve the measure. [ 35] Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is indicted on charges of lèse-majesté. [ 36] 26 June – Final/National round of the 2024 Thai Senate election [ 37]