Public Holidays in EstoniaThe following are holidays that mean days off:
• 1.1. New Year's Day
• 24.2. Independence Day (National holiday - celebrates the declaration of independence in 1918)
• 2.4.2010 Good Friday
• 4.4.2010 Easter Sunday
• 1.5. May Day
• 23.5.2010 Whitsunday (Pentecost), 50 days after Easter Sunday
• 23.6. Victory Day
• 24.6. St. John's Day or Midsummer Day
• 20.8. Day of Restoration of Independence (celebrates Estonia's restoration of independence from Soviet Union in 1991)
• 24.12. Christmas Eve
• 25.12. Christmas Day
• 26.12. Boxing Day
The following holidays do not give a day off:
• 6.1. Epiphany
• 2.2. Anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty (Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence)
• 14.3. Native Language Day (Kristjan Jaak Peterson's birthday)
2nd Sunday of May: Mothers' Day
• 4.6. National Flag Day (date when the Flag of Estonia was first consecrated in 1884)
• 14.6. Day of Mourning and Commemoration (commemorating the victims of Soviet deportations in 1941 and 1949)
• 22.9. Resistance Day (Otto Tief's attempt to restore the Estonian independence in 1944)
• 2.11. All Saints
• 2nd Sunday of November: Fathers' Day
• 16.11. Day of Declaration of Sovereignty
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