MOTHERS DAY

The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor its mother,^[1] and it's now celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

This holiday is relatively modern, being created at the start of the 20th century, and should not be confused with the early pagan and Christian traditions honoring mothers, or with the 16th century celebration of Mothering Sunday, which is also known as Mother's Day in the UK.

In most countries the Mother's Day celebration is a recent holiday derived from the original US celebration. Exceptions are, for example, the Mothering Sunday holiday in the UK.

Dates around the world

Mother's Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world. Examining the trends in Google searches for the term "mother's day" shows two primary results, the smaller one on the fourth Sunday in Lent, from the British tradition of Mothering Sunday (it is also called ladies day and women's day), and the larger one on the second Sunday in May.^[6]

The extent of the celebrations varies greatly. In some countries, it is potentially offensive to one's mother not to mark Mother's Day. In others, it is a little-known festival celebrated mainly by immigrants, or covered by the media as a taste of foreign culture (compare the celebrations of Diwali in the UK and the United States).

Note: Countries that celebrate International Women's Day are marked with a cross '†'.

Gregorian calendar
Occurrence	Dates	Country
Second Sunday of February	February 8, 2009 February 14, 2010	Norway†
February 2		Greece
Shevat 30 (Falls anywhere between January 30 and March 1)		Israel
March 3		Georgia
March 8		Afghanistan Albania†  Armenia	Azerbaijan  Belarus†  Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bulgaria†  Laos Macedonia†	Moldova  Montenegro  Romania	Russia†*  Serbia  Ukraine†
Fourth Sunday inLent	March 22, 2009 March 14, 2010	Ireland  Nigeria	United Kingdom
March 21 (vernal Equinox)		Bahrain  Egypt  Iraq	Jordan  Kuwait  Libya	Lebanon  Oman  Palestinian Territories	Saudi Arabia  Sudan  Somalia  Syria	United Arab Emirates  Yemen (All  Arab countries in general)
March 25		Slovenia
April 7		Armenia
April 24 +/- 5 days BaisakhAmavasya (Mata Tirtha Aunsi)		Nepal
First Sunday in May	May 3, 2009 May 2, 2010	Hungary†  Lithuania	Portugal  Spain
May 8		Albania (Parents' Day)  South Korea (Parents' Day)
May 10		El Salvador  Guatemala	Mexico
Second Sunday of May	May 10, 2009 May 9, 2010	Anguilla  Aruba  Australia  Austria  Bahamas Bangladesh  Barbados  Belgium  Belize  Bermuda  Bonaire  Brazil	Brunei  Bulgaria  Canada  Chile  Colombia  Croatia  Cuba [7]  Curaçao  Cyprus  Czech Republic  Denmark  Dominica	Ecuador  Estonia  Finland  Germany  Ghana  Greece  Grenada  Honduras  Iceland  India  Italy†  Jamaica  Japan	Latvia* Liechtenstein*  Malta  Malaysia  Myanmar  Netherlands  New Zealand  Pakistan  Papua New Guinea  Peru [8]  People's Republic of China[9]  Philippines	Puerto Rico  Republic of China(Taiwan)  Slovakia  South Africa  Sri Lanka  St. Kitts & Nevis  St. Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Sint Maarten  Singapore  Suriname Switzerland	Trinidad and Tobago  Turkey  Ukraine  United States  Uruguay Venezuela  Zimbabwe
May 15		Paraguay
May 26		Poland "Dzień Matki"
May 27		Bolivia
Last Sunday of May	May 31, 2009 May 30, 2010	Algeria  Dominican Republic	France(First Sunday of June ifPentecostoccurs on this day)  French Antilles (First Sunday of June if Pentecostoccurs on this day)	Haiti [10]  Mauritius  Morocco	Sweden†  Tunisia
May 30		Nicaragua
June 1		Mongolia† (The Mothers and Children's Day.)
Second Sunday of June	June 14, 2009 June 13, 2010	Luxembourg
Last Sunday of June	June 28, 2009 June 27, 2010	Kenya
August 12		Thailand (the birthday of Queen Sirikit)
August 15(Assumption Day)		Antwerp (Belgium)  Costa Rica
Second Monday of October	October 12, 2009 October 11, 2010	Malawi
October 14		Belarus
Third Sunday of October	October 18, 2009 October 17, 2010	Argentina (Día de la Madre)
Last Sunday of November	November 29, 2009 November 28, 2010	Russia
December 8		Panama
December 22		Indonesia
Islamic calendar
Occurrence	Dates	Country
20 Jumada al-thani[n 1]	June 23, 2008	Iran [11]

Bibliography

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