Holidays in Lithuania
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List of official holidays in Lithuania:
- January 1
- New Years day
- February 16
- Day of Re-establishment of the State of Lithuania (1918)
- March 11
- Day of Restitution of Independence of Lithuania (from the Soviet Union, 1990)
- First Sunday and Monday of spring with full moon
- Easter (commemorates death of Jesus)
- May 1
- International Labor Day
- first sunday in May
- Mothers Day;
- June 24
- St. John's Day, Day of dew - first name is Christian, second is original pagan, holiday is done according to mostly pagan traditions (Joninės, Rasos);
- July 6
- Statehood Day (commemorates corronation of first king, Mindaugas)
- August 15
- Assumption Day (Žolinės);
- November 1
- All Saints' Day
- December 25-26
- Christmas (commemorates birth of Jesus)