August 15 - Holidays

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Poland)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Stanislaus Kostka
  • Tarcisius
  • August 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic Holy Day of Obligation. (Christianity, a public holiday in Austria, Belgium,Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy,Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal,Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu), and its related observances:
  • Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches)
  • Ferragosto (Italy)
  • Mother's Day (Antwerp and Costa Rica)
  • National Acadian Day (Acadians)
  • Virgin of Candelaria, patron of the Canary Islands. (Tenerife, Spain)
• Earliest day on which Day of Hearts can fall, while August 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in August. (area aroundHaarlem and Amsterdam)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Republic of the Congo from France in 1960.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947.
• Liberation Day, celebrates the independence of Korea from Japan in 1945:
  • Gwangbokjeol, "Liberation Day" (South Korea)
  • Jogukhaebangui nal, "Fatherland Liberation Day" (North Korea)
• The first day of Flooding of the Nile, a commemoration of the belief that the star Sirius would appear when the Nile River flooded.(Egyptand Coptic Church)
• The main day of Bon Festival (Japan)
• Victory over Japan Day (United States)