Public holidays in Lithuania

List of official holidays in Lithuania:

Date	English Name	Local Name	Remarks
January 1	New Year's Day	Naujieji metai
February 16	Day of Re-establishment of the State of Lithuania (1918)	Lietuvos valstybės atkūrimo diena
March 11	Day of Restitution of Independence of Lithuania (from the Soviet Union, 1990)	Lietuvos nepriklausomybės atkūrimo diena
First Sunday and Monday of spring with full moon	Easter	Velykos	Commemorates resurrection of Jesus
May 1	International Labor Day	Tarptautinė darbo diena
First Sunday in May	Mother's Day	Motinos diena
First Sunday in June	Father's Day	Tėvo diena
June 24	St. John's Day [Christian name], Day of Dew [original pagan name]	Joninės, Rasos	Celebrated according to mostly pagan traditions. (aka: Midsummer Day, Saint Jonas Day)
July 6	Statehood Day	Valstybės (Lietuvos karaliaus Mindaugo karūnavimo) diena	Commemorates coronation of the first king, Mindaugas
August 15	Assumption Day	Žolinė (Švč. Mergelės Marijos ėmimo į dangų diena)
November 1	All Saints' Day	Visų šventųjų diena
December 25 and December 26	Christmas	Šv. Kalėdos	Commemorates birth of Jesus

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Other observances:

• January 13 - Day of Freedom Defenders: a memory day for victims of January Events
• March 4: Saint Casimir's Day, on the anniversary of the death of Saint Casimir, the patron saint of Lithuania
• June 14: Mourning and Hope day, for remembrance of whose who were exiled to Siberia as part of Soviet genocide in Lithuania. The June 14th remarks the first operation Priboi in 1941.
• August 23: Black Ribbon day - a memory day for the victims of totalitarian regimes.