April 5

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on April 5.

See also:  April,  Today in History,  movable April holidays,  possible April holidays

     spotlight on:  

•  Fortuna (Festival of Good Luck)
•  Fringe Fairies' Welcome Party (Fairy)
•  German-Americans Day
•  Go For Broke Day
•  National Raisin and Spice Bar Day
•  TaxMama on Rick Barber night

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - April 05

anniversaries

•  1930:  Salt strike in India
•  1919:  Mahatma Gandhi's day of non violent action;first Satyagraha
•  1856:  birth of Booker Taliaferro Washington
  •  thinkquest

directories

April holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

•  Family Day - in South Africa

Asia

•  not 2004 or 2008:  Ching Ming Festival a/k/a Tomb Sweeping Day, Pure Brightness Festival - in leap years, it moves to April 4
•  Ancestor's Day - China
•  Arbor Day in South Korea
•  Tomb Sweeping Day - in Taiwan
•  Arbor Day - in Taiwan
•  Sunning of the Buddha - in Tibet

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

Europe

•  Independence Day 1992 - in Bosnia
•  Emaishen - in Luxembourg
•  Tax Day - in the United Kingdom

North America

•  2003:  Feast of Fools - in Colorado Springs, CO

Caribbean

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 95, with 270 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Thursday
•  2002 A. D.:  Friday
•  2003 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2004 A. D.:  Monday
•  2005 A. D.:  Tuesday

•  2006 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2007 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2008 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2009 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2010 A. D.:  Monday
•  2011 A. D.:  Tuesday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Spring
•  Southern hemisphere:  Autumn

zodiac

•  Aries

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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008