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2021 in Myanmar. 2021 ( MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s decade. Year 2021 is a major year in Myanmar, particularly after the February 1 coup d'état.
The calendar recognises two types of day: astronomical and civil. The mean Burmese astronomical day is from midnight to midnight, and represents 1/30 of a synodic month or 23 hours, 37 minutes and 28.08 seconds. The civil day comprises two halves, the first half beginning at sunrise and the second half at sunset.
Armed Forces Day. 27 March. 1 day. Formerly Resistance Day (against the English language occupation in 19s←). Myanmar New Year. Varies. 4 or 5 days. Thingyan Eve, Commencing Day to Prime Day, End of Thingyan, Myanmar New Year Day. Note: Date is based on the traditional Burmese calendar.
23 October- over 80 people were killed by an airstrike in Hpakant Township, Northern Myanmar during a celebration for the 62nd founding anniversary of the Kachin Independence Organization. It becomes the single deadliest attack on civilians (hence the term Hpakant massacre) since the start of the renewed civil war.
Thingyan. Mid-April. Marks the beginning of the Burmese new year. Gadaw (paying obeisance to elders), water games, observation of the Buddhist Sabbath ( Uposatha ), parades. Kason (May) Bo tree watering festival. Full moon of Kason. Marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha ( Vesākha ) Watering of the Bo tree.
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A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw — Myanmar's military — which then vested power in a military junta. Acting President of Myanmar Myint Swe proclaimed a year-long state of ...
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