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August 5, 2026

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Emancipation Wednesday

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Emancipation Wednesday closes out the first week of August as a public holiday in the British Virgin Islands, part of the territory's annual August Festival. Alongside the preceding Emancipation Monday and Emancipation Tuesday holidays, it commemorates the abolition of slavery across the British Caribbean, a milestone dated to 1834, through the islands' largest cultural celebration of the year.

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British Virgin Islands

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Emancipation Wednesday is a public holiday in the British Virgin Islands, the third day of the territory's annual August Festival, commemorating the end of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834.

July Mass Uprising Day (জুলাই গণঅভ্যুত্থান দিবস)

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Bangladesh

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July Mass Uprising Day is a Bangladeshi public holiday held each August 5, marking the 2024 uprising whose mass protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and ended her 15-year rule.

Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders (Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja)

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Croatia

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Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders is a national holiday in Croatia held each August 5, commemorating the 1995 military operation that effectively ended the Croatian War of Independence.

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