September 22 - Holidays and Observances

Holidays and Observances

• American Business Women's Day (United States)
• Car-Free Day (Europe and Montreal, Canada)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Candidus
  • Digna and Emerita
  • Emmeram of Regensburg
  • Maurice (Western Church)
  • Phocas
  • Salaberga
  • Theban Legion
  • Thomas of Villanova
  • September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest date for the autumnal equinox (Northern Hemisphere):
  • Chuseok, the Korean harvest festival, celebrated on the Harvest Moon. One of the major Korean holidays. (South Korea)
  • French Republican New Year, the first day ("Grape") in the Month of Vendémiaire. (French Revolution)
  • Harvest Festival, celebrated on Harvest Moon, the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox. (Britain)
  • Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
  • The first day of Miķeļi (ancient Latvia)

• Hobbit Day, the containing week is celebrated as Tolkien Week. (American Tolkien Society)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
• OneWebDay, an annual day of Internet celebration and awareness, started in 2006.
• Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)
• Some Latter Day Saints recognise it as "Trumpet Day," or the day that Joseph Smith received the golden plates, which later became the Book of Mormon, from the angel Moroni.