2015 Holidays

2015 Holidays is an attempt from the house of 123NewYear to satisfy the normal human instinct of looking into the list of holidays when it is time to change the calendar to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the New Year.

No matter how old you are, no matter how prosaic you may be, you cannot deny the fact that holidays excite us. Whether you want to know about a festivity that you really like to celebrate or you are on a look out for a long weekend to plan your next vacation or you want to know of the bank holidays so that you can plan any major business transaction accordingly, we all need a yearly holiday list.

Before we go into the list of Holidays for the year 2019, let us take a look on the types of holidays that are generally observed in any given country –

• Public Holidays/ National Holidays/ Legal Holidays – These are holidays that are made mandatory by the laws of the land. These vary from country to country and depend upon the culture and history of a country.

• Bank Holidays – These are off days for banks and other financial institutions.

• Gazetted Holidays – These are holidays that are given to Government employees. However, private companies have the liberty of not declaring these days to be holidays. But in case an employee in such an organization wants to observance such an occasion, then the person should be granted a leave on that day.

• Local Holidays – With the rich cultural and historical diversity it is but natural that there are occasions that are celebrated only in certain countries, or even certain parts within a country.

• Restricted Holidays – These are optional holidays that a person can opt to take in order to celebrate an occasion that is important to the religion or community the person belongs to. Such holidays are pre determined and there is often a restriction on the total number of Restricted Holidays that a person may avail in a year.

• Observances – These are the ones when people follow ritualistic celebrations.

• Religious Holidays – These holidays are dependent on religious observances. These vary from one religion to the other, and often from one country to the other also. Some of these could be National holidays while others can be restricted holidays or simply observances.

• State Holidays – There are certain occasions which are only important for a particular State and are not that relevant for the other parts of the country. For those occasions, State specific holidays are declared.

2015 Holidays is a comprehensive list of holidays including public holidays, bank holidays, gazetted holidays, etc. The list also goes about to include a few major religious and regional observances as well. Although this list would cover the major festivities observed in most parts of the globe, but special emphasis has been given on the following countries –

• India
• United Kingdom
• United States.

List of Holidays 2015