UK Festivals & Traditions
Key UK festivals and traditions: Christmas (25 December), Easter (spring, Good Friday and Easter Monday are bank holidays), Bonfire Night (5 November, commemorates the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605), Hogmanay (Scottish New Year celebrations), Burns Night (25 January, celebrates Robert Burns), Remembrance Day (11 November, poppies worn to remember war dead), Halloween (31 October). Religious festivals celebrated in the UK include Diwali (Hindu festival of lights), Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha (Muslim), Hanukkah (Jewish), and Vaisakhi (Sikh).