Holidays Calendar of Nicaragua
JANUARY
- January 1 – New Years
- January 18 – Birth of Rubén Darío (in 1867)
FEBRUARY
- February 14 – Day of Love and Friendship (Valentine’s Day)
MARCH
- March 1 – Day of the Nicaraguan Journalist
APRIL
- April 17 – Indigenous Resistance Day (Deed of Diriangén in 1523)
- April 23 – World Book Day
MAY
- May 1 – Workers Day (San José Obrero)
- May 4 – National Dignity Day (1927)
- May 18 – Birthday of Augusto C. Sandino (in 1895)
- May 30 – Nicaraguan Mother’s Day
JUNE
- June 1 – Children’s Day
- June 23 – Nicaraguan Father’s Day (Birthday of Carlos Fonseca in 1936)
- June 29 – Nicaraguan Teacher’s Day (patriotic deed of Enmanuel Mongalo y Rubio in 1855)
- last Friday of June – Arbor Day
JULY
- July 11 – Triumph of the Liberal Revolution (in 1893)
- July 14 – Flag Day
- July 19 – Triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution (in 1979)
- July 23 – Nicaraguan Student Day
- July 26 – Nicaraguan Grandfather and Grandmother Day
AUGUST
- August 25 – Day of Persons with Disabilities
SEPTEMBER
- September 2 – Army Day (EDSN foundation in 1927)
- September 14 – Victory of San Jacinto over the filibusters (in 1856)
- September 15 – Independence of Central America (in 1821)
OCTOBER
- October 12 – Day of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance (discovery of America (by Christopher Columbus in 1492)
- last Friday of October – Fiesta de los Agüizotes – Popular indigenous festival
NOVEMBER
- November 2 – Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
DECEMBER
- December 7th – Crying Day
- December 8 – The Purest and Immaculate Conception of Mary
- December 24 – Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve)
- December 25 – Christmas or Nativity of the Child Jesus
- December 31 – New Year’s Eve (New Year’s Eve)
