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18 March 2025. ( 2025-03-18) Frequency. annual. Map of U.S. operations in Southern Philippines, 1945. Panay Liberation Day, alternatively Panay Landing Day and Victory (Liberation) Day on Panay is an annual event that commemorates the landing on Panay during the Battle of the Visayas in World War II. It is a public holiday on the islands of ...
Proclamation No. 167 Dropped from the list through Proclamation No. 368, series of 2023 on October 11, 2023 March 28 (2024) Maundy Thursday: Huwebes Santo: Movable Regular Part of the Triduum of Holy Week and includes the Mass of the Lord's Supper (the Last Supper). Act No. 345 [19] March 30 (2024) Good Friday: Biyernes Santo: Movable Regular
November 30, 2024. ( 2024-11-30) Frequency. annual. Bonifacio Day is a national holiday in the Philippines, commemorating Andrés Bonifacio, one of the country's national heroes. He was the founder and eventual Supremo of the Katipunan, a secret society that triggered the Philippine Revolution of 1896 against the Spanish Empire.
Act No. 3827 by the Philippine Legislature enacted on October 28, 1931, designated every last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day. [ 5] However, Bonifacio Day established by virtue of Act No. 2946 of 1921 was also dedicated to anonymous Filipino heroes. [ 6] In practice, National Heroes Day celebrations were observed on the same day as ...
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. [ 1] The Proclamation forbade all settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was ...
April 9, 1961 (as Philippine holiday) The Day of Valor, officially known as Araw ng Kagitingan, is a national observance in the Philippines which commemorates the fall of Bataan to Japanese troops during World War II. The day is officially celebrated every April 9, the start of the Bataan Death March, although the date was moved on several ...
December 18. Next time. 18 December 2024. ( 2024-12-18) Frequency. annual. Lopez Jaena Day is a public holiday to celebrate the birth of Philippine national hero Graciano López Jaena. It was declared a holiday by the Philippine National Government only for Iloilo Province and Iloilo City . Lopez Jaena's newspaper.
The Proclamation of Independence on June 12, 1898, as depicted on the back of the Philippine five peso bill. Independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898, between four and five in the afternoon in Cavite at the ancestral home of General Emilio Aguinaldo in Cavite el Viejo (present-day Kawit ), Cavite, some 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Manila.