A holiday is a day or other period of time set aside for festivals or recreation.[1] Holiday's existing in the Verse in different forms, they are sometimes overlapping with present-day holidays often in a modified form.
In the United Empire of Earth
Empire-wide holidays are:
| Name | Date | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Red Festival | January / February | moveable holiday; Usage of lunisolar calender |
| Coramor | February 11 | Story of Yuri Ilyin and Corazon Tan; Allegiance; metonymous: Valentine's Day |
| Stella Fortuna | March 15 | 'fortune' ; Holiday on Mars; originally celebrated at the conjunction between Mars and Earth |
| Birthday of Abeni Okon | March 18 | First (extraterrestrial) Birth on Mars |
| First Jump Day | April 10 | First successfull usage of a jump drive, discovery of Croshaw |
| Invictus Launch Week | May | moveable holiday; beginning of the new recruitment year |
| Emancipation Day | May 2 | Fall of the Messer Regime |
| Armistice Day | May 29 | Peace Agreement between Xian and Humans |
| First Contact Day | June 12 | First contact between humans and another species |
| Imperator’s Day | July 12 | Unification |
| Citizen Day | October 10 | Citizenship in the UEE |
| Day of the Vara | October 27 | Commemoration of the dead; metonymous: Helloween |
| Pax Humana | November 8 | End of the Unification Wars |
| Anthony Tanaka Remembrance Day | Dec 3 | Mourning Day for the victims of the Messer regime |
| Luminalia | Dec 22-24 | (Banu) Days when Souli barriers are overcome, family; (Humans) gifting, family; metonymous: Christmas |
Other
- Traveler’s Day, celebrated by the Church of Journey on January 1.
- Triggerfish, April 1, metonymous: April Fools' Day