Day Guide for Monday April 17th 2017 What are the holidays on April 17th 2017?

This is our day guide for Monday April 17th 2017 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?

Holidays on April 17th 2017

International: Easter Monday

Easter is probably the most important holiday of the Christian year, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus

International: Orthodox Easter Monday

The Orthodox church uses the Julian calendar for the calculation of Easter, which can often mean that Orthodox Easter falls later than Easter observed elsewhere

International: Orthodox Easter Day

Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus has been placed after his crucifixion.

Egypt: Sham El Nessim

Sham El-Nessim is an ancient Egyptian spring festival celebrated on the day after Coptic Easter

Gabon: Women's Day

Marks the appointment of the first female to the Government in Gabon

Israel: Pesach VII

Passover (Pesach), is an eight day Jewish holiday that remembers the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

Lao: Lao New Year Holiday

Extra day of holidays to mark the Lao New Year

Myanmar: Burmese New Year

The Burmese New Year falls on the day that the sun enters the star sign of Aries

Public sector only

USA (regional): Emancipation Day

Washington DC Only. Weekday closest to April 16th. marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia

Public sector only

USA (regional): Patriots Day

Commemorates the opening battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord in 1775

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General Information for April 17th 2017
There are 10 public holidays today.
Day 107 of 2017
258 days left in 2017
Week 16 of the year
On this Day in History
1998 - Linda McCartney, wife of Paul McCartney, Wings musician and animal rights campaigner, dies (born 1941).
1963 - Baseball legend Mickey Mantle hits the record-breaking 'tape measure' home run.
1961 - John F Kennedy - 35th President of the United States - authorises the Bay of Pigs invasion, and incident noted in the song 'We Didn't Start the Fire'.
1924 - Carl Hayden receives a letter regarding a meeting in Tucson, just one stage in the Americanisation of the Pima Nation.