The “old provincial system” was abolished in 1876, but nonetheless, the “regions” of New Zealand are generally defined by the boundaries of the former provinces. And each region gets its own statutory holiday to celebrate its founding.

Canterbury Anniversary Day

All Saints' Day celebrates all Christian saints, particularly those who have no special feast days of their own. It is a public holiday in France.

All Saints' Day

Recreation Day is a public holiday in northern Tasmania. It is held on the first Monday in November, and was instituted to offset Regatta Day in southern Tasmania. It is observed in all parts of Tasmania north of (but not including) Oatlands and Swansea.

Recreation Day

The Marlborough region of New Zealand has its founding day, called “Marlborough Anniversary Day”, on the first Monday following Labour Day. You can therefore expect Marlborough Anniversary Day to arrive sometime in late October or early November each year.

Marlborough Anniversary Day

All Saints’ Day is generally celebrated on 1st November as a commemoration day for all Christian saints. It may also be known as All Hallows' Day, Solemnity of All Saints, Hallowmas, or Feast of Saints.

All Saints' Day (Many regions)

The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere.  The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and helping support their spiritual journey.

Day of the Dead begins (Mexico)

Every year on November 1, millions of people celebrate authors and the books that they write on National Author’s Day. To celebrate #NationalAuthorsDay , tweet at your favourite author, gift a book to your friends and family or take some time to write a story or a poem!

National Authors Day

World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated by vegans around the world every 1 November. The benefits of veganism for humans, non-human animals, and the natural environment are celebrated through activities such as setting up stalls, hosting potlucks, and planting memorial trees.

World Vegan Day

All Souls’ Day falls on November 2 each year. It is a day of alms giving and prayers for the dead.

All Souls' Day

Melbourne Cup Day is Australia’s best known horse racing event held on the first Tuesday of November every year. It is an annual public holiday in the state of Victoria. This event is popularly dubbed as “the race that stops the nation”.

Melbourne Cup Day

Election Day in the United States of America is the day on which popular ballots are held to select public officials.

Election Day

This day goes back some 3,000 years, to the rituals honoring the dead in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and helping support their spiritual journey.

Day of the Dead ends (Mexico)

Zero Tasking Day is designed to dedicate this hour to ‘me time’; encouraging rest, relaxation and a distinct lack of work. To celebrate #ZeroTaskingDay, take an hour out of your day when Daylight Savings Time comes into effect, and settle in to relax and truly take care of yourself.

Zero Tasking Day

National Cliche Day is celebrated on November 3 of every year. A cliche is a phrase which is used very often or the element of artistic work which occurs in films or music just as often. Enjoy #ClichéDay with some romantic comedies or horror movies, or share your favourite cliches on social media.

Cliché Day

Culture Day is a national holiday held annually in Japan on November 3 for the purpose of promoting culture, the arts, and academic endeavor. Festivities typically include art exhibitions, parades, and award ceremonies for distinguished artists and scholars.

Culture Day

National Candy Day is observed annually on November 4th. Candies come in numerous colors, shapes, sizes and varieties and have a long history in popular culture. To celebrate this day, buy some candy for your friends and family, make your own candy or try a new flavor of candy for a change.

National Candy Day

Unity Day, which is on November 4, is one of the newest and the most controversial holidays in Russia.

Unity Day

Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in the United Kingdom. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes was arrested while guarding explosives.

Guy Fawkes Day

Birthday of the Sultan of Perak (Perak)

National Stress Awareness Day is a great opportunity to take a moment to think about our wellbeing and find advice or support on managing stress. On #StressAwarenessDay , take this opportunity to remove the stress from your life for the day and find ways of mitigating them beyond this day.

International Stress Awareness Day

This is a special day to honour Western Australia’s unique mammal emblem and an awareness day to encourage the action to conserve the Numbat species. You can help numbats by encouraging responsible pet ownership, spreading word about the numbats' plight and never removing hollow logs from the bush.

World Numbat Day

The International Project Management Day (IPM Day) aims to encourage project based organizations worldwide or organizations who utilize project management methodologies to schedule some type of recognition event within their organizations.

International Project Management Day #IPMDay

Journalists’ Day recognizes the work of China’s journalists. It’s a holiday that annually draws attention to the contrast between Chinese and Western notions of journalism’s role in society.

Journalists' Day

Designed to raise the National IQ for STEM careers by inspiring the next generation of students through a self guided interactive, online STEM awareness experience called LifeJourney. Another way to celebrate is to raise funds to help science teachers buy supplies to further students' interests.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) Day

Many Ukrainians celebrate Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day on the third Sunday in May.

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day

World Freedom Day is a United States federal observance declared by then-President George W. Bush to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe. It started in 2001 and is celebrated on November 9.

World Freedom Day

Independence Day is a national holiday observed annually in Cambodia every 9 November. The date celebrates Cambodia's Declaration of Independence from France on 9 November 1953.

Independence Day -Cambodia

Constitution Day in Nepal was, in earlier years, held on November 9th to commemorate the 1990 constitution, but in 2015, a new constitution was enacted on September 20th, with the date of celebrations correspondingly being moved.

Constitution Day - Nepal

Ataturk Memorial Day

Remembrance Day commemorates civilians and military personnel who lost their lives in armed conflicts.

Remembrance Day

Birthday of the Sultan of Kelantan (Kelantan)

St. Martin's Day is celebrated in Germany every year on November 11.

St. Martin's Day

Veterans Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans, that is, persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day.

Veterans Day - USA

Singles day or Guanggun Jie is a shopping holiday popular among young Chinese people that celebrate their pride in being single.

Single's Day

Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. The official national ceremonies are held at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

Remembrance Day (Canada)

Armistice Day is commemorated annually on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I.

Armistice Day (France)

National Independence Day is a national day in Poland celebrated on 11 November to commemorate the anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty as the Second Polish Republic in 1918 from the German, Austrian and Russian Empires.

Independence Day -Poland

World Pneumonia Day is to raise awareness of pneumonia, promote prevention and treatment, and generate action to fight the illness. Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs, making breathing painful and limiting oxygen intake.

World Pneumonia Day

Birthday of the Sultan of Kelantan (Day 2) (Kelantan)

November 12 is Happy Hour Day. So, on this unofficial fun holiday take advantage of happy hours at your favorite bar, cafe or restaurant. Make sure to share your culinary highlights from #happyhourday on social media to celebrate!

Happy Hour Day

World Kindness Day is an international observance on 13 November. It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of nations' kindness NGOs. It is observed in many countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, Nigeria and United Arab Emirates.

World Kindness Day

The United Kingdom observes Remembrance Day to remember those who sacrificed their lives during wars and conflicts, including World War I. 

Remembrance Sunday

World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and is held on 14 November each year. On this day, organise a diabetes information session with your community, in schools or online to raise awareness and confront diabetes.

World Diabetes Day

On the National Day of Mourning (Volkstrauertag) many Germans commemorate all victims of war and tyranny.

National Day of Mourning

The International Day for Tolerance is an annual observance day declared by UNESCO in 1995 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance. It is observed in November. This day encourages collective exercise in free, reasoned and informed thinking on the major challenges of our time.

World Philosophy Day

The Proclamation of the Republic was a military coup d'état that established the First Brazilian Republic on 15 November 1889. It overthrew the constitutional monarchy of the Empire of Brazil and ended the reign of Emperor Pedro II.

Republic Day - Brazil

The International Day for Tolerance is an annual observance day declared by UNESCO in 1995 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance. It is observed on 16 November.

International Day for Tolerance #ToleranceDay

International Students' Day is an international observance of the student community, held annually on November 17. Originally commemorating the Nazi storming of Czech universities in 1939 and the subsequent killing and sending of students to concentration camps.

International Students Day

World Prematurity Day aims to raise awareness about the issues associated with preterm birth. It also spreads information about how to help and support affected families.

World Prematurity Day

The Day of Prayer and Repentance is a Protestant holiday and a public holiday in the state of Saxony (Sachsen) on the last Wednesday before November 23.

Repentance Day (Saxony)

Proclamation Day of the Republic of Latvia is celebrated annually on 18 November. It marks the anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence of Latvia by the People's Council of Latvia in 1918.

Independence Day - Latvia

Princess Day itself, was not inspired by the Disney company. Instead, it was brought in by a smaller company, Nest Entertainment, which decided to work with Sony Entertainment to develop one of the last hand-drawn stories, The Swan Princess. Celebrate with a day of pampering and princess movies.

Princess Day

Oman's Sultan's Birthday is celebrated on November 19th. This public holiday celebrates the birthday of the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said. It is the second day of a two day holiday period as November 18th is also a public holiday to mark Oman's independence from Portugal in 1650.

Birthday of Sultan Qaboos - Oman

Inaugurated in 1992 on 7 February by Thomas Oaster, it is an occasion to celebrate boys' and men's achievements and contributions, in particular for their contributions to country, society, community, neighbourhood, family, marriage, and child care.

International Men's Day

Dignity and Freedom Day is a national Ukrainian holiday that celebrates the country's dignity and freedom.   

Dignity and Freedom Day

National Day is an annual public holiday in Myanmar. It is celebrated on the tenth day following the full moon of the month of Tazaungmone.

National Day -Myanmar

The United Nations’ (UN) World Television Day is annually observed in many places around the world on November 21. The day recognizes that television plays a major role in presenting different issues that affect people such as social and economic issues, as well as threats to peace and security.

World Television Day

The Sunday of the Dead in Germany is an occasion to remember those who have passed away.

Sunday of the Dead

World Hello Day is a secular holiday observed annually on November 21, to express that conflicts should be resolved through communication rather than the use of force. To celebrate, verbally greet 10 or more people as an expression of personal communication in preserving peace.

World Hello Day

Lebanese Independence Day is the national day of Lebanon, celebrated on November 22 in commemoration of the end of the French Mandate over Lebanon in 1943, after 23 years of Mandate rule.

Independence Day -Lebanon

On November 22, take out your car, bike, segway, unicycle, kayak, horse or your tractor for a spin because it is #GoForARideDay. How you travel doesn’t matter, as long as you celebrate the free spirit of the day and the freedom of an open road.

Go For A Ride Day

Labor Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in Japan celebrated on November 23 of each year. The law establishing the holiday cites it as an occasion to commemorate labor and production and give one another thanks.

Labour Thanksgiving Day

National Adoption Day is observed annually on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. This event is focused on raising awareness of children in foster care waiting to be adopted. To celebrate, use #AdoptionDay on social  media, volunteer in events supporting adoption, or donate at a fundraising event.

Adoption Day

Embrace your unique talent and celebrate it, no matter how quirky it is on November 24 or Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day. Don't miss out this opportunity to share your talents to a wider audience on social media with #CelebrateYourUniqueTalentDay!

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated annually as a national holiday in the North American continent on the fourth Thursday of November. The day is meant to celebrate the harvest season and other blessings of the year gone by.

Thanksgiving

Blase’ Day is observed annually on November 25. Are you bored with life and unimpressed with the world around you? On Blase’ Day, we have permission to be blase’ toward just about anything, being the perfect day for the world-weary to revel in their apathy.

Blase’ Day

Cake Day is on November 26. Have your cake and eat it too on one of the greatest holidays ever invented. To celebrate #NationalCakeDay, try your hand at baking with a new recipe, or order your favorite cake to share with friends and family from your local bakery.

National Cake Day #NationalCakeDay

Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of America's Christmas shopping season since 1952.

Black Friday

National Jukebox Day is observed on end-November. It has been observed the day before Thanksgiving since 2016. To celebrate, head over to your local 50’s diner and play your favorite songs on their jukebox.

Jukebox Day

Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday held during the Saturday after US Thanksgiving during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. This Saturday is always the last one in November, so it usually falls between November 24 and November 30.

Small Business Saturday #ShopSmall (USA)

Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It originated as a harvest festival. Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by George Washington after a request by Congress.

Thanksgiving Day #Thanksgiving (USA)

The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the Christian year.  

First Advent Sunday

Flag and Independence Day in Albania is celebrated on November 28 each year.

Independence Day -Albania

St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and St Andrew's Day is a bank holiday in Scotland. Scots and others celebrate traditional Scottish culture on St. Andrew's Day with Scottish food, music, recitations, dancing, and more.

St Andrew's Day (Scotland)

Giving Tuesday, often stylized as #GivingTuesday for the purposes of hashtag activism, refers to the Tuesday after U.S. Thanksgiving in the United States. GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.

Giving Tuesday #GivingTuesday (USA)

Saint Andrew's Day is the feast day of Saint Andrew. It is celebrated on 30 November. Saint Andrew's Day is Scotland's official national day. It is a national holiday in Romania. Saint Andrew is represented in the New Testament to be the disciple who introduced the Apostle Peter, to Jesus

St Andrew's Day

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.

Bonifacio Day

Commemoration Day or Martyrs' Day (Arabic: يوم الشهيد yawm ash-shahiid) is marked annually on December 01 in the United Arab Emirates, recognising the sacrifices and dedication of Emirati martyrs who have given their life in the UAE and abroad in the field of civil, military and humanitarian service