Holidays and observances
Holidays and observances on April 4
13 holidays and special days are celebrated on April 4 around the world.
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- 66events
Holidays and observances
Children's Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan)Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honour of children, whose date of observance varies by country.
In 1925, International Children's Day was first proclaimed in Geneva during the World Conference on Child Welfare. Since 1950, it is 
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Benedict the MoorBenedict the Moor, also known as Benedict of Palermo, Benedict the Black, or Benedict the African, was an Afro-Sicilian Franciscan friar. He was born to enslaved Africans in San Fratello, Sicily and freed at birth. He became known for his charity.
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Gaetano CatanosoGaetano Catanoso was an Italian Catholic priest and the founder of the Suore Veroniche del Santo Volto (1934). Catanoso served as a parish priest in two different parishes for his entire ecclesial life and was an ardent devotee of the Face of Jesus which he pr
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Isidore of SevilleIsidore of Seville was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".
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Martin Luther King Jr. (Episcopal Church (USA))Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the u
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Reginald Heber (Anglican Church of Canada)Reginald Heber was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42. The son of a rich landowner and cleric, Heber gained fame at the University 
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Tigernach of ClonesTigernach mac Coirpri (d. 549) was an early Irish saint, patron saint of Clones (County Monaghan) in the province of Ulster.
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Plato of SakkoudionPlato the Studite, also Plato of Sakkoudion, was a Byzantine minor official who became a monk in 759. After refusing the metropolitan see of Nicomedia or the headship of a monastery in Constantinople, in 783 he founded the monastery of Sakkoudion on Mount Olym
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April 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)April 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 5- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Senegal from France (1960). This is a list of public holidays in Senegal.
- Peace Day (Angola)Angola has twelve public holidays that can be increased by bridge holidays if a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday. 2022 has fifteen national holidays.
One of the possible days for Qingming Festival.The Qingming Festival or Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English, is a traditional Chinese festival observed by ethnic Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, 
NATO DayThe NATO Day is a day commemorating the founding of NATO by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. It is celebrated in all Allied countries, including, but not limited to, North Macedonia and marked on the first Sunday of April in Romania. H
Frequently asked questions
What is celebrated on April 4?
13 observances are celebrated on April 4 around the world: Children's Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan), Christian feast day: Benedict the Moor, Christian feast day: Gaetano Catanoso, Christian feast day: Isidore of Seville, Christian feast day: Martin Luther King Jr. (Episcopal Church (USA)), Christian feast day: Reginald Heber (Anglican Church of Canada). The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
What happened on April 4?
66 documented historical events happened on April 4, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrated a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. On the same day, in another year: The Komnenos dynasty came to full power with the coronation of Alexios I Komnenos (pictured) as Byzantine emperor. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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