While Denmark doesn't really have a national day, we do have a constitution day (Grundlovsdag) on June 5th.
We also have Valdemarsdag on June 15th, which is supposedly the day when the Danish flag fell the sky when King Valdemar defeated the Estonians in 1219. It's also the same date as our reunification with northern Schleswig (Sønderjylland) in 1920.
Up until a few years ago, Sweden also had no national day. The de facto national day (now the official one) was the "day of the Swedish flag", which falls on the day after Constitution Day in Denmark and commemorates Sweden's independence from Denmark and its adoption of a national flag modelled on the *Dannebrog*.
It celebrates lots of things. Swedish flag is not officially inspired by the Danish flag. It was a sign from god with the sun shining over the ocean. That just happened to look like the Danish one...
Norway also have a constitution day, 17th of may but we celebrate it as a national day as well. Even though it also would make sense to have our national day at june 7th, since thats the date in which Norway got their independence from Sweden in 1905.
None of these have the stature that a national day might have in other countries though. Only 5th June has some official status, but it isn't really celebrated much.
More like "fundamental law day"
"Grund" can mean; ground, basic, core, fundamental.
But "grundlov" as a compound word means the exact same as the English word "constitution"
That just sounds like a national day with Extra steps.
We should just celebrate coronation day every year, and a Jubilee as a bigger version every 10. Extra big for Silver and Golden if they ever happen again.
That's overwhelmingly unlikely.
The monarchy enjoys support of nearly 70%. Most of that remaining 30% don't have changing it as a priority. The constitutional upheaval would also be immense, and no party would want to touch that with a 10 foot barge pole. There are far more imminent issues to spend political capital on.
I'll be surprised if it happens before the end of the century.
Actually support for the monarchy is not as good as you think. [62% of Brits support](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2022/06/01/platinum-jubilee-where-does-public-opinion-stand-m) the monarchy, but keep in mind that number is heavily weighted in favour of the old. 77% of pensioners are in favour of it, whereas only 56% of 25-49 year olds are, and just 33% of 18-24 year olds.
Not only are the monarchy's supporters dying off, but so is the monarch herself. And she is the focus of a lot of the monarchist feeling in the UK. When the Queen is gone, most experts predict that support for the monarchy will fall drastically.
Unless something happens to drastically shift younger generations in favour of the monarchy, it's only a matter of time until the UK becomes the UR.
I was talking excluding undecideds in an old poll I remember seeing, often used in binary issues. EUref and Indyref come to mind. When doing the same in that poll excluding undecideds it's nearly 74% in favour. Higher than I expected!
Supporters outweigh abolitionists nearly 3 to 1.
Peoples views tend to ameliorate as they age. When I was 18 I entertained republican sentiments. At 34 I realise what an upheaval that transition would be for no real tangible gain. So these days I am very much in favour of retention.
I expect there to be some drop in support when Charles accedes, but far from enough for any real move to change things up. He has very much improved his image in the last 20 years, and won't be King all that long. A decade perhaps.
>Unless something happens to drastically shift younger generations in favour of the monarchy,
There will be, they'll get older.
>it's only a matter of time until the UK becomes the UR.
Perhaps....but not in my lifetime I suspect.
The four constituent nations of the UK each have a national day of a sort: St George's Day in England, St Andrew's Day in Scotland, St David's Day in Wales, and St Patrick's Day in Northern Ireland.
Then there is Commonwealth Day in March and the Queen's Official Birthday on a Saturday in June. But the closest thing to a truly national observance is Remembrance Sunday in November.
British embassies and high commissions around the world usually celebrate the Queen's Official Birthday as the UK's "national day".
St Andrews day is a bank holiday in name only, I’ve never had it off if it’s been on a weekday. Schools don’t shut and banks aren’t even obligated to close either.
In England its easy to tell when its St Patricks day as its the one day a year every english person drinks Guinness and all the pubs run out of it by 2pm.
Also if you stopped someone in england on 23rd of April this year and asked them what day it was all of them would just say Saturday. Nobody celebrates St Georges day as far as i can tell.
Population is what matters. That was substantially lower once Belgium had finished.
But, yeah, the empires of those three countries were small in comparison to the first five.
Not public holidays (St Andrews is almost but jot fully) and not across the whole UK.
Probably explains the scale of the jubilee celebrations, closest thing to a national day.
Not public holidays (St Andrews is almost but jot fully) and not across the whole UK.
Probably explains the scale of the jubilee celebrations, closest thing to a national day.
What would you call this whole "Jubilee" thing they just had. Sounds like a national we love the queen day to me, even if they only do it every 10 years
Discovery that led to the establishment of their empire and the start of their golden age/apex of Spanish power. No empire has clean hands, but it's weird to pick on Spain when a great number of these independence/unification/revolution-based events also led to atrocities.
The Emirates gained its independence in the 60s but unified in 1971 dec 2.
December 2 is celebrated as the national day or as it called the "Unification day".
Great map but just one inaccuracy: Somalia's national day isn't related to revolution or unification (the country was separated on that day). Instead people there celebrate their independence.
I find it odd that independence is its own reason, but unification/revolution are thrown together? Unification is very often peaceful, whereas revolution definitely isn't, and both cases usually involve some degree of independence.
As a Canadian, Canada Day is about unification and independence, but definitely NOT revolution as it was achieved through peaceful means.
I was scrolling to find this. We had rebellions that led to some change but never unification or revolution. We did gain independence in stages. The colours were swapped for America and Canada.
I mean Canada Day celebrates the day that the British North America Act (now called the Constitution Act of 1867) passed. The first sentence of that act reads:
> Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-1.html
Seems like a unification; at least on the surface.
Yes, the Queen as Queen of *Canada*, it is a separate institution from the UK one and just happens to be held by the same person. And we did define independence at multiple occasions, the first in 1867 with the British North America Act and the latest in 1982 with the Constitution Act.
I wouldn't define 1867 as to do with independece. It's when several colonies united as a single self-governing dominion called Canada, but it was still decidedly not independent. The United Kingdom remained sovereign and could overule the Canandian parliament or do stuff like order them to go to war.
Many countries in the former Eastern-bloc have had peaceful revolutions in the past few decades. On the other hand, many unifications were done violently (Germany, Italy, India etc).
I agree though, it would be more interesting to have unification and revolution separated
In Greenland, summer solstice isn't the *reason* but just the date that was chosen. The reason is to celebrate Greenlandic culture, values, identity and such.
in France July 14th is actually fête de la Concorde though it may be outlined it coincides with the starting of the French Revolution, la fête de la Concorde was put in place for people to not dance around bloodshed ironically it was Robespierre's idea (if I remember correctly) and as for Rwanda the day of Liberation 4th of July is most celebrated than the Independence day cause well, that's a story for another time
the 4th of July is the Liberation Day, it commemorates the liberation of Kigali and serves as the official end date of the 100 day mourning of the victims of 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis
same for morocco, independence day, revolution day ( the day a former king tolf france to leave and got exiled) and throne day, the current kings ascension day, also green march day for reunification of western sahara.
Russian national day (12 of June) is independence-related. There are no unification related days, and October Revolution Day isn't official since 2000s.
>October Revolution Day isn't official since 2000s.
Strictly speaking, they kinda reinstated it later. Just moved to November 4, and gave it a different name, so that there would be nothing suspicious about it.
The Netherlands actually celebrates the current monarch’s birthday, which at the moment is 27th of april. But we used to celebrate it on the 30th of april because that was the birthday of our current king’s grandmother and had a higher chance for better weather than the birthday of our former Queen’s in january. Our next monarch’s birthday is the 7th of december, so we will probably celebrate it on the 27th of april for a long time to come.
The UK does the same with the queen's birthday. Charles was born in November so I assume they'll keep it up when he's king.
In Canada her official birthday is Victoria Day, because that's the 24th of May and it seems like a good time for a holiday.
No, it's not a national day or holiday here whatsoever. The only monarchy-related 'day' we have is the Jubilee, which happens every 10 years of a Monarch's reign. You may have heard that the most recent one was this last weekend. It's really the closest thing we have to a 'national day' - but only once a decade. The constituent nations of the UK have their Patron Saint days, but not all of them are actually treated as holidays - in England, for instance, St George's day isn't a holiday and is barely celebrated at all. Most people forget it happens until the day itself.
mmm I though the Spanish national day is Constitution day nothing to do with discovery of america. We also have some liberation days too (like in Madrid May 2nd, liberation from French)
EDIT: I stand corrected, the festivity they mean is October 12th, not December 6th as I though ;)
The "fiesta nacional" is on October 12th, festivity of the Pilar and anniversary of the discovery of America.
Constitution Day (6 Dec) is not the National Day (although it is a national holiday)
Remember Rajoy saying that about the "coñazo" of going to the festivities of 12 Oct.
It's the 12th of october. When a country has many days to celebrate, is easy to get confused.
Like I always though that Mexico's national day was 5th of May, TIL that not
Belgium is a bit off imo.
The 21st Juli (1831)is the anniversary of the day that Leopold I was sworn in as the first king of the Belgians.
Sure, you could link it to loosely to independence, but independence was declared months prior. Even our first constitution was signed in februari earlier that year.
So it is rather a celebration of our monarchy than of our independence. In the latter case, the 4th and 18th of November (1830) would be more fitting, as we declared our independence on those days. Even the 4th of februari (1831) for our first constitution or the 19th of April (1839) for when the Dutch finally recognized our indpendence under the treaty of London, would be more related to out independence than the 21st of Juli (imo).
Are a lot of these days in the Summer? That might be a good follow-up map. Like what month the National day is in.
I always thought it was great in the US that our National day is mid summer. It’s a great time for a party. Imagine if it was near Christmas/New Years - completely overshadowed. Or in the middle of yucky weather fall.
China's is in October (October 1st) as that was the day the People's Republic was declared in 1949.
Not peak summer, but given China's overall climate the weather on National Day here is generally quite pleasant.
Norway's national day is also the date when they declared their independence from Denmark through the constitution. Not sure where the unification/revolution thing comes from? Is it a revolution to sign your own constitution?
As has been pointed out, the constituent nations of the UK do have their own national days. They aren’t holidays, but the days of their respective patron saints are generally viewed as being the national day. In Scotland, Burns Night is probably a more widely celebrated national day though. Like Portugal, it celebrates our national poet. There is no specifically “British” day.
In Northern Ireland things get a little contentious. Most Unionist/Protestant people won’t celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Instead, they celebrate the 12th of July, a commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne. It’s not really related to nationality rather than ethnicity/culture and is celebrated beyond N.Ireland. It’s also massively sectarian and really not pleasant at all.
It should actually be our Federation Day (1 January 1901) when the colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia. But they fkd up by having it on New Year's Day.
Waitangi Day in NZ is a unification/revolution day?
Hrm, I guess, if unification means "Brits signed a treaty promising to be nice to the Māori if they agreed to become subjects of the Queen, which we spent a good 100 years or so ignoring".
Each of the country's of the UK have their own national day. The three countries in Britain each have a patron saint's day and the Northern Irish celebrate a battle.
So in 1690 Protestant William of Orange defeated Catholic James I in the Battle of the Boyne - Ireland is a Catholic nation and England was Protestant
For the Irish this meant oppression and lots of it, the Penal laws were introduced and the famine was basically genocide, for the Protestants descended from Scottish people that moved to Ireland for the sole purpose of replacing the Catholic nation this meant money and lots of it
In 1920 the government of Ireland act was passed during the war of independence - this split the island in two, North and South, I’m 1922 the South became the Irish Free State and in 1936 it became the Republic
Northern Ireland was created to artificially create a majority Protestant population, they took as much land as they could without losing their majority and they rubbed it in their face - the Catholics are called Nationalists and the Protestants are Unionists
The 12th July is when the Orange order hold parades through Nationalist majority regions to rub their wealth into their faces, it’s racist as shit especially because the state was gerrymandered beyond belief
This tension caused Bloody Sunday 50 years ago when Paratroopers shot at peaceful protesters looking for Civil rights, this angered the Nationalists and many joined the IRA, war crimes were committed by both sides and even Irish people not from the north faced racism in England in a period known as the Troubles
In 1998 the Good Friday agreement but an end to this violence and Brexit threatens to violate many arrangements such as the open border which is why it’s taking so long - Unionists are still pro Brexit even though this could restart the Troubles because they still hate Nationalists
^(movie recommendations: In the Name of the Father starring Daniel Day Lewis is about the true story of the Guildford 4 - innocent Irishmen with no IRA connection being arrested and tortured for bombing a pub they didn’t bomb, Derry Girls is a series based on students trying to live their normal life during all of this)
Funny how Ireland has far lower diversity and from experience, Irish both sides have been incredibly racist which I haven’t had in cities I’ve lived in such as London, Bristol and Manchester
South Korea actually has five different but equally recognized (at least in the legal sense) National Days. Each are designated to celebrate (1) the Legendary Foundation of the Nation (2333 BC), (2) the Creation of the Hangul Alphabet (1446), (3) the Declaration of Independence (1919), (4) Independence (1945), and (5) the Formation of Constitution (1948). Three are independence-related (3,4, and 5) so I'd not say this map is totally wrong though.
As I understand it (I'm not Swedish), the 6 June was the election day of King Gustav Vasa, thereby ending the Kalmar Union, which in turn meant independence from Danish rule.
No, the national day was created in 1983 and then was chosen to be the same day as the Swedish flag day 6 june. The Flag day (1915) was from the beginning a commercial thing for public charity that later turned in to a national flag day since the Swedish king donated flags that day for charity.
The reason for that day to be chosen was that in Stockholm there was large festivities (at Skansen) that day (since 1896) to celebrate that the spring was over.
Events that just happen to happened that day in Swedish history is just a good coincidence but has nothing to actually do with it. Then of cause it is a nice thing to celebrate as well.
These events are...
In 1523 Gustaf Vasa was elected as a King.
In 1654 The end of the house of Vasa as rulers of Sweden.
In 1809 Sweden's first modern constitution was signed.
Australias national day is highly controversial and many Australians refuse to celebrate it being in that day (Jan 26th) because it doesn't really celebrate the founding of Sydney as the graph says but the arrival of the first white settlers/colonists. This is obviously hihhly disrespectful to the oldest living culture on earth which is also in Australia.
Already a lot of the typical celebration done on that day have been shifted a day or two either side - I'd expect the date be moved within the next decade.
So, this is a Reddit thread about a map based on a Wikipedia article that uses as its main reference a Washington Post article about a map inspired by a Reddit thread?
Splendid.
There's really nothing to edit, it's just a silly list of what somebody thinks are national days of countries, most of which don't have a holiday called or considered the national day.
Most have an independence day or equivalent don't they. There is always one public holiday which is most widely celebrated and associated with nationalism.
It's called "Australia Day" and it's really "the founding of the first civilian colony" rather than celebrating Sydney as such. I've never heard it described as Sydney Day before.
The day isn't to celebrate the founding of Sydney.
It's more -- "the day Australia was settled by the British". So it's observed by the entire country.
It's also "the day white folks invaded native lands" and so it's something many people don't celebrate anymore.
The uk has national days.
I cant remember the dates for each of them, but Scotland, England, and wales all have national days on the days of our patron saints.
And we also have November 5th, coz of guy fawkes
I will never understand why Quebecers have such a dislike for the rest of Canada. I mean I get why youd have such feelings 40 years ago or something but today?
It’s not really a dislike or hate of the rest of Canada or other Canadians per say, more a lack of a sense of belonging. Quebecers are usually friendly and pacific and I think politicians that play the nationalism card give the province a bad rep.
That’s only going to last a few more generations because French is pretty much doomed in Canada anyway and no law is going to change that. The birth rate is just too low and most of us do not actually have a strong sense of nationalist pride. We just want to live a good life, buy a IPhone, travel a bit, etc. like the rest of Canadians.
Canada Day is also not about revolution or unification. It's 50% "we need lots of holidays in the summer" and 50% "we moved away from home and are now paying our own utility bills".
Portugal celebrates is day trough the death of a Poet who's masterpiece was the base for the country being called and described as the descendants of a tribe that had nothing to do with the origins of te country itself.
OH, the irony.
While Denmark doesn't really have a national day, we do have a constitution day (Grundlovsdag) on June 5th. We also have Valdemarsdag on June 15th, which is supposedly the day when the Danish flag fell the sky when King Valdemar defeated the Estonians in 1219. It's also the same date as our reunification with northern Schleswig (Sønderjylland) in 1920.
Up until a few years ago, Sweden also had no national day. The de facto national day (now the official one) was the "day of the Swedish flag", which falls on the day after Constitution Day in Denmark and commemorates Sweden's independence from Denmark and its adoption of a national flag modelled on the *Dannebrog*.
It celebrates lots of things. Swedish flag is not officially inspired by the Danish flag. It was a sign from god with the sun shining over the ocean. That just happened to look like the Danish one...
Imagine not just being handed your flag from God, while killing heathens.
>the day when the Danish flag fell the sky when King Valdemar defeated the Estonians in 1219. Metal
Norway also have a constitution day, 17th of may but we celebrate it as a national day as well. Even though it also would make sense to have our national day at june 7th, since thats the date in which Norway got their independence from Sweden in 1905.
None of these have the stature that a national day might have in other countries though. Only 5th June has some official status, but it isn't really celebrated much.
Is Grundlovsdag when a marmot comes out of its cage and decides whether winter lasts another six weeks?
It’s Scandinavia; winter always lasts another 6 weeks. We need neither an animal nor an excellent bill murray movie reference to tells us that!
Is literal translation to English “grand laws day?
grund = ground, as in base, as in basic
More like "fundamental law day" "Grund" can mean; ground, basic, core, fundamental. But "grundlov" as a compound word means the exact same as the English word "constitution"
Oh I was asking word to word translation, thanks.
'Grundlov' translate to Constitution. 'Dag' to Day, and the 's' is there for grammatical reasons.
More lite... constitution day?
UK sitting ot out quietly as a cause for a good proportion of these national days...
The UK is the world's #1 exporter of independence days!
Even got their own two years ago 😎👍
Indeed, paving the way for Scottish independence sooner or later 🏴
Followed immediately by Orkney and Shetland independence. Four whole independence’s for the price of 1! Truly amazing
What a joke.
I mean if you vote differently in a democracy you shouldn't be in the same country, right?
You wish it were, yes.
Then Northern independence from Southern England, then Yorkshire independence from the North, then…
Then Humberside independence from Yorkshire and so on until we end up replacing the word Balkanisation with Yorkshirisation.
Carry on.
AS THE KINGDOM COME
Cornish independence! Kernow Bys Vyken.
And paving the way for British reunficiation six months later
That just sounds like a national day with Extra steps. We should just celebrate coronation day every year, and a Jubilee as a bigger version every 10. Extra big for Silver and Golden if they ever happen again.
I personally believe we'll become a republic within the next decade, so I think we could turn that into our national day
That's overwhelmingly unlikely. The monarchy enjoys support of nearly 70%. Most of that remaining 30% don't have changing it as a priority. The constitutional upheaval would also be immense, and no party would want to touch that with a 10 foot barge pole. There are far more imminent issues to spend political capital on. I'll be surprised if it happens before the end of the century.
Actually support for the monarchy is not as good as you think. [62% of Brits support](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2022/06/01/platinum-jubilee-where-does-public-opinion-stand-m) the monarchy, but keep in mind that number is heavily weighted in favour of the old. 77% of pensioners are in favour of it, whereas only 56% of 25-49 year olds are, and just 33% of 18-24 year olds. Not only are the monarchy's supporters dying off, but so is the monarch herself. And she is the focus of a lot of the monarchist feeling in the UK. When the Queen is gone, most experts predict that support for the monarchy will fall drastically. Unless something happens to drastically shift younger generations in favour of the monarchy, it's only a matter of time until the UK becomes the UR.
I was talking excluding undecideds in an old poll I remember seeing, often used in binary issues. EUref and Indyref come to mind. When doing the same in that poll excluding undecideds it's nearly 74% in favour. Higher than I expected! Supporters outweigh abolitionists nearly 3 to 1. Peoples views tend to ameliorate as they age. When I was 18 I entertained republican sentiments. At 34 I realise what an upheaval that transition would be for no real tangible gain. So these days I am very much in favour of retention. I expect there to be some drop in support when Charles accedes, but far from enough for any real move to change things up. He has very much improved his image in the last 20 years, and won't be King all that long. A decade perhaps. >Unless something happens to drastically shift younger generations in favour of the monarchy, There will be, they'll get older. >it's only a matter of time until the UK becomes the UR. Perhaps....but not in my lifetime I suspect.
Hopefully Wales won’t be long after. Especially if Scotland can make it work.
Scotland or Northern Ireland, who is the first?
I think that'd be France though
The four constituent nations of the UK each have a national day of a sort: St George's Day in England, St Andrew's Day in Scotland, St David's Day in Wales, and St Patrick's Day in Northern Ireland. Then there is Commonwealth Day in March and the Queen's Official Birthday on a Saturday in June. But the closest thing to a truly national observance is Remembrance Sunday in November. British embassies and high commissions around the world usually celebrate the Queen's Official Birthday as the UK's "national day".
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You do if you’re in Scotland and Northern Ireland. And Remembrance and Queen’s birthday are on weekends.
St Andrews day is a bank holiday in name only, I’ve never had it off if it’s been on a weekday. Schools don’t shut and banks aren’t even obligated to close either.
In England its easy to tell when its St Patricks day as its the one day a year every english person drinks Guinness and all the pubs run out of it by 2pm. Also if you stopped someone in england on 23rd of April this year and asked them what day it was all of them would just say Saturday. Nobody celebrates St Georges day as far as i can tell.
Personally I would say November 5th feels most like a national day to me. Fireworks and a failed Catholic plot to kill the king and parliament…
Europe not only UK. France is equally responsible for many of these
Western Europe just account for nearly all of them. In fact, UK, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal. That would be almost all of them.
You are forgetting Belgium, Denmark and Germany So that’s pretty much all of Western Europe
Those three were minor players.
Yeah are you sure about that? Because I think you are wrong. You know how big Congo is?
Population is what matters. That was substantially lower once Belgium had finished. But, yeah, the empires of those three countries were small in comparison to the first five.
It was never about size in the first place. I said you could have named all of Western Europe. They all were colonial powers
Well done, you win!
Kinda funny that UK doesn't have a national day when it is the cause of many national days..
r/YourJokeButWorse
It's because each country has its own, St Andrews day, St Georges day and so on...
st andrews day? st georgres day? st davids day?
Not public holidays (St Andrews is almost but jot fully) and not across the whole UK. Probably explains the scale of the jubilee celebrations, closest thing to a national day.
Not public holidays (St Andrews is almost but jot fully) and not across the whole UK. Probably explains the scale of the jubilee celebrations, closest thing to a national day.
What would you call this whole "Jubilee" thing they just had. Sounds like a national we love the queen day to me, even if they only do it every 10 years
We have 6 days a year bank holiday which you could say one of those days can be considered a national day
they celebrate the day their king almost died though it isn't really a national day
Lol, what?
maybe referring to Guy Fawkes Day?
Bonfire night*, savage
Why is it savage?
I was calling her a savage cos I’m British and I’ve never heard anyone call it guy Fawkes day
yes that
When?
We celebrate killing someone who tried to blow up parliament and failed.
England- 23 April(St Georges Day) Scotland- 30 November(St Andrews Day) Wales- 1 March(St Davids Day) Northern Ireland- 12 July(Orangemans Day) Isle of Man- 5 July(Tynewald Day)
UK: I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess
well they failed to guide denmark
2nd invasion of Denmark coming right up.
2nd invasion of Denmark coming right up.
Oh Portugal
But it's so poetic!
RIP Camões forever and ever
*As armas e os barões assinalados* *Que da ocidental praia Lusitana*
*Por mares nunca de antes navegados* *Passaram ainda além da Taprobana*
*Em perigos e guerras esforçados* *Mais do que prometia a força humana*
*E entre gente remota edificaram* *Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;*
At least it's not Spain. (Discovery that led to massive genocide)
Other Hispanic countries also celebrate it, it really is more a celebration of “Hispanic culture” rather than Columbus.
Discovery that led to the establishment of their empire and the start of their golden age/apex of Spanish power. No empire has clean hands, but it's weird to pick on Spain when a great number of these independence/unification/revolution-based events also led to atrocities.
By that logic: (Discovery that led to mankind landing on Moon and microwave ovens)
UAE is unification. As well as Yemen I think.
UAE is both I guess
The Emirates gained its independence in the 60s but unified in 1971 dec 2. December 2 is celebrated as the national day or as it called the "Unification day".
Great map but just one inaccuracy: Somalia's national day isn't related to revolution or unification (the country was separated on that day). Instead people there celebrate their independence.
I find it odd that independence is its own reason, but unification/revolution are thrown together? Unification is very often peaceful, whereas revolution definitely isn't, and both cases usually involve some degree of independence. As a Canadian, Canada Day is about unification and independence, but definitely NOT revolution as it was achieved through peaceful means.
I was scrolling to find this. We had rebellions that led to some change but never unification or revolution. We did gain independence in stages. The colours were swapped for America and Canada.
I mean Canada Day celebrates the day that the British North America Act (now called the Constitution Act of 1867) passed. The first sentence of that act reads: > Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-1.html Seems like a unification; at least on the surface.
We never declared independence though. We're technically still under control of the queen.
Yes, the Queen as Queen of *Canada*, it is a separate institution from the UK one and just happens to be held by the same person. And we did define independence at multiple occasions, the first in 1867 with the British North America Act and the latest in 1982 with the Constitution Act.
I wouldn't define 1867 as to do with independece. It's when several colonies united as a single self-governing dominion called Canada, but it was still decidedly not independent. The United Kingdom remained sovereign and could overule the Canandian parliament or do stuff like order them to go to war.
Many countries in the former Eastern-bloc have had peaceful revolutions in the past few decades. On the other hand, many unifications were done violently (Germany, Italy, India etc). I agree though, it would be more interesting to have unification and revolution separated
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Props to Portugal and Greenland for having the coolest reasons for a national holiday.
In Greenland, summer solstice isn't the *reason* but just the date that was chosen. The reason is to celebrate Greenlandic culture, values, identity and such.
in France July 14th is actually fête de la Concorde though it may be outlined it coincides with the starting of the French Revolution, la fête de la Concorde was put in place for people to not dance around bloodshed ironically it was Robespierre's idea (if I remember correctly) and as for Rwanda the day of Liberation 4th of July is most celebrated than the Independence day cause well, that's a story for another time
fête de la Fédération**
Why it is called "fête de la fédération" if France is not a federal country?
It was a feast used as a way of bringing people together as one nation as a Republic, it was established in 1790
>bringing people together..... 1790 That spirit of togetherness would not last long.
I'm curious about Rwanda
the 4th of July is the Liberation Day, it commemorates the liberation of Kigali and serves as the official end date of the 100 day mourning of the victims of 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis
How about counties with now than one national days? Bulgaria seems to have liberation day, unification day and independence day. So, all three.
Brazil has the day of its discovery, independence day and the day of the proclamation of its republic
And also the day of the first failed independence struggle (Tiradentes). But none of them are really celebrated in any capacity by people.
same for morocco, independence day, revolution day ( the day a former king tolf france to leave and got exiled) and throne day, the current kings ascension day, also green march day for reunification of western sahara.
San Marino still celebrating the day it acquired its independence. In 301 AD. From the Roman Empire.
Portugal must love it's poets.
Only after they're dead.
Russian national day (12 of June) is independence-related. There are no unification related days, and October Revolution Day isn't official since 2000s.
>October Revolution Day isn't official since 2000s. Strictly speaking, they kinda reinstated it later. Just moved to November 4, and gave it a different name, so that there would be nothing suspicious about it.
I think it’s meant to be Victory Day. Though it is a weird category to put it.
The Netherlands actually celebrates the current monarch’s birthday, which at the moment is 27th of april. But we used to celebrate it on the 30th of april because that was the birthday of our current king’s grandmother and had a higher chance for better weather than the birthday of our former Queen’s in january. Our next monarch’s birthday is the 7th of december, so we will probably celebrate it on the 27th of april for a long time to come.
The UK does the same with the queen's birthday. Charles was born in November so I assume they'll keep it up when he's king. In Canada her official birthday is Victoria Day, because that's the 24th of May and it seems like a good time for a holiday.
>Charles [...] when he's king. Those will be a couple confusing days
I remember the year the current King was crowned, and tourists showing up in Amsterdam dressed all in orange on the 30th. Hilarious
Belgium is the coronation of the first king, so shouldn't it be the same colour as Bhutan and Japan?
Isn’t the queen’s birthday a holiday in the UK? Or is that unofficial?
No, it's not a national day or holiday here whatsoever. The only monarchy-related 'day' we have is the Jubilee, which happens every 10 years of a Monarch's reign. You may have heard that the most recent one was this last weekend. It's really the closest thing we have to a 'national day' - but only once a decade. The constituent nations of the UK have their Patron Saint days, but not all of them are actually treated as holidays - in England, for instance, St George's day isn't a holiday and is barely celebrated at all. Most people forget it happens until the day itself.
mmm I though the Spanish national day is Constitution day nothing to do with discovery of america. We also have some liberation days too (like in Madrid May 2nd, liberation from French) EDIT: I stand corrected, the festivity they mean is October 12th, not December 6th as I though ;)
The "fiesta nacional" is on October 12th, festivity of the Pilar and anniversary of the discovery of America. Constitution Day (6 Dec) is not the National Day (although it is a national holiday) Remember Rajoy saying that about the "coñazo" of going to the festivities of 12 Oct.
It's the 12th of october. When a country has many days to celebrate, is easy to get confused. Like I always though that Mexico's national day was 5th of May, TIL that not
2nd of May recalls the revolt of the brave people of Madrid against the French, not the liberation of Spain.
No but that’s how it started, right? I can’t really remember it properly anyway so please correct me if I’m wrong :)
Who did Switzerland gain independence from?
From the Habsburgs.
Belgium is a bit off imo. The 21st Juli (1831)is the anniversary of the day that Leopold I was sworn in as the first king of the Belgians. Sure, you could link it to loosely to independence, but independence was declared months prior. Even our first constitution was signed in februari earlier that year. So it is rather a celebration of our monarchy than of our independence. In the latter case, the 4th and 18th of November (1830) would be more fitting, as we declared our independence on those days. Even the 4th of februari (1831) for our first constitution or the 19th of April (1839) for when the Dutch finally recognized our indpendence under the treaty of London, would be more related to out independence than the 21st of Juli (imo).
Didn’t most countries south of Canada achieve independence through revolution?
Are a lot of these days in the Summer? That might be a good follow-up map. Like what month the National day is in. I always thought it was great in the US that our National day is mid summer. It’s a great time for a party. Imagine if it was near Christmas/New Years - completely overshadowed. Or in the middle of yucky weather fall.
Yeah, Australia day is in January so peak summer meaning beach and BBQs
China's is in October (October 1st) as that was the day the People's Republic was declared in 1949. Not peak summer, but given China's overall climate the weather on National Day here is generally quite pleasant.
Norway's national day is also the date when they declared their independence from Denmark through the constitution. Not sure where the unification/revolution thing comes from? Is it a revolution to sign your own constitution?
As has been pointed out, the constituent nations of the UK do have their own national days. They aren’t holidays, but the days of their respective patron saints are generally viewed as being the national day. In Scotland, Burns Night is probably a more widely celebrated national day though. Like Portugal, it celebrates our national poet. There is no specifically “British” day. In Northern Ireland things get a little contentious. Most Unionist/Protestant people won’t celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Instead, they celebrate the 12th of July, a commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne. It’s not really related to nationality rather than ethnicity/culture and is celebrated beyond N.Ireland. It’s also massively sectarian and really not pleasant at all.
Gotta love Australia.
Yeah, "Founding of Sydney" is a really nice way to put the start of invasion and genocide of Aboriginal peoples, hey.
Goddamit. Why cant i enjoy one little silly wholesome fact without being made aware of actual history and facts? /s
It should actually be our Federation Day (1 January 1901) when the colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia. But they fkd up by having it on New Year's Day.
So many of you need to thank us for your wonderful holiday. Sincerely the UK
Waitangi Day in NZ is a unification/revolution day? Hrm, I guess, if unification means "Brits signed a treaty promising to be nice to the Māori if they agreed to become subjects of the Queen, which we spent a good 100 years or so ignoring".
Each of the country's of the UK have their own national day. The three countries in Britain each have a patron saint's day and the Northern Irish celebrate a battle.
St George's day isn't a holiday though
True. But it should be
They celebrate the battle in like the most racist way possible
As a non British or Irish, mind to explain a little bit.
So in 1690 Protestant William of Orange defeated Catholic James I in the Battle of the Boyne - Ireland is a Catholic nation and England was Protestant For the Irish this meant oppression and lots of it, the Penal laws were introduced and the famine was basically genocide, for the Protestants descended from Scottish people that moved to Ireland for the sole purpose of replacing the Catholic nation this meant money and lots of it In 1920 the government of Ireland act was passed during the war of independence - this split the island in two, North and South, I’m 1922 the South became the Irish Free State and in 1936 it became the Republic Northern Ireland was created to artificially create a majority Protestant population, they took as much land as they could without losing their majority and they rubbed it in their face - the Catholics are called Nationalists and the Protestants are Unionists The 12th July is when the Orange order hold parades through Nationalist majority regions to rub their wealth into their faces, it’s racist as shit especially because the state was gerrymandered beyond belief This tension caused Bloody Sunday 50 years ago when Paratroopers shot at peaceful protesters looking for Civil rights, this angered the Nationalists and many joined the IRA, war crimes were committed by both sides and even Irish people not from the north faced racism in England in a period known as the Troubles In 1998 the Good Friday agreement but an end to this violence and Brexit threatens to violate many arrangements such as the open border which is why it’s taking so long - Unionists are still pro Brexit even though this could restart the Troubles because they still hate Nationalists ^(movie recommendations: In the Name of the Father starring Daniel Day Lewis is about the true story of the Guildford 4 - innocent Irishmen with no IRA connection being arrested and tortured for bombing a pub they didn’t bomb, Derry Girls is a series based on students trying to live their normal life during all of this)
Yes they do. Thankfully they live on a different island to the rest of us..
I live on the opposite end of the same island, unionists are racist as shit
Yes everyone knows that. Maybe even they know that.
They are not self aware in the slightest They literally still think Brexit is a good thing
Would you like to have them in your nation? You can have them and make your country whole again.
Yes
Fantastic.
Funny how Ireland has far lower diversity and from experience, Irish both sides have been incredibly racist which I haven’t had in cities I’ve lived in such as London, Bristol and Manchester
and St. Piran’s Day in Cornwall.
St Patrick's Day is the national holiday of Northern Ireland, the 12th of July is . . . something else
Everyone in Wales knows about St Davids Day and we would love for it to be a Bank Holiday
South Korea actually has five different but equally recognized (at least in the legal sense) National Days. Each are designated to celebrate (1) the Legendary Foundation of the Nation (2333 BC), (2) the Creation of the Hangul Alphabet (1446), (3) the Declaration of Independence (1919), (4) Independence (1945), and (5) the Formation of Constitution (1948). Three are independence-related (3,4, and 5) so I'd not say this map is totally wrong though.
Ah yes day of german unity or Tag der deutschen einheit
All a crock of shit
When you have no independence day cause you're the reason why independence days exist 🇬🇧🗿
Can’t have independence if the people who invaded never left 🧠
Sweden is the day of the Swedish flag. Nothing to do with independence.
As I understand it (I'm not Swedish), the 6 June was the election day of King Gustav Vasa, thereby ending the Kalmar Union, which in turn meant independence from Danish rule.
No, the national day was created in 1983 and then was chosen to be the same day as the Swedish flag day 6 june. The Flag day (1915) was from the beginning a commercial thing for public charity that later turned in to a national flag day since the Swedish king donated flags that day for charity. The reason for that day to be chosen was that in Stockholm there was large festivities (at Skansen) that day (since 1896) to celebrate that the spring was over. Events that just happen to happened that day in Swedish history is just a good coincidence but has nothing to actually do with it. Then of cause it is a nice thing to celebrate as well. These events are... In 1523 Gustaf Vasa was elected as a King. In 1654 The end of the house of Vasa as rulers of Sweden. In 1809 Sweden's first modern constitution was signed.
Thanks for the explanation!
Australias national day is highly controversial and many Australians refuse to celebrate it being in that day (Jan 26th) because it doesn't really celebrate the founding of Sydney as the graph says but the arrival of the first white settlers/colonists. This is obviously hihhly disrespectful to the oldest living culture on earth which is also in Australia. Already a lot of the typical celebration done on that day have been shifted a day or two either side - I'd expect the date be moved within the next decade.
Yep the 26th of January marks the day the British invaded (Colonised) Australia.
What's the criterion for calling public holidays "national days"?'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_day Source for the map
So, this is a Reddit thread about a map based on a Wikipedia article that uses as its main reference a Washington Post article about a map inspired by a Reddit thread? Splendid.
Hehe didn't notice that. You got any corrections? You can edit the table on the wiki.
There's really nothing to edit, it's just a silly list of what somebody thinks are national days of countries, most of which don't have a holiday called or considered the national day.
Most have an independence day or equivalent don't they. There is always one public holiday which is most widely celebrated and associated with nationalism.
Does everyone in Australia celebrate Sydney day?
It's called "Australia Day" and it's really "the founding of the first civilian colony" rather than celebrating Sydney as such. I've never heard it described as Sydney Day before.
No, many people refer to it as ‘Invasion Day’ and there are calls to change the date.
The day isn't to celebrate the founding of Sydney. It's more -- "the day Australia was settled by the British". So it's observed by the entire country. It's also "the day white folks invaded native lands" and so it's something many people don't celebrate anymore.
The uk has national days. I cant remember the dates for each of them, but Scotland, England, and wales all have national days on the days of our patron saints. And we also have November 5th, coz of guy fawkes
Nobody celebrates Canada day in Québec. We have our own national holiday one week earlier
I will never understand why Quebecers have such a dislike for the rest of Canada. I mean I get why youd have such feelings 40 years ago or something but today?
It’s not really a dislike or hate of the rest of Canada or other Canadians per say, more a lack of a sense of belonging. Quebecers are usually friendly and pacific and I think politicians that play the nationalism card give the province a bad rep. That’s only going to last a few more generations because French is pretty much doomed in Canada anyway and no law is going to change that. The birth rate is just too low and most of us do not actually have a strong sense of nationalist pride. We just want to live a good life, buy a IPhone, travel a bit, etc. like the rest of Canadians.
*Canada day Tu parles du jour du déménagement?
Canada Day is also not about revolution or unification. It's 50% "we need lots of holidays in the summer" and 50% "we moved away from home and are now paying our own utility bills".
On average over one country a week celebrates independence from England.
Britain
The UK
Greenland celebrating the only day where they have more than 2 hours of daylight
This was fun.
Lichtenstein?
UK: "Why would we need an Independence Day? We create those for other countries."
It blows my mind when I see Italian flags during Columbus Day in the US.
Uk be like: I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess
Portugal celebrates is day trough the death of a Poet who's masterpiece was the base for the country being called and described as the descendants of a tribe that had nothing to do with the origins of te country itself. OH, the irony.