Country | Date | Year | Event | Name of holiday |
Afghanistan |
February 15 |
1989 |
Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan |
Liberation Day |
Albania |
November 29 |
1944 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
Dita e Çlirimit or Liberation Day |
Bangladesh |
December 16 |
1971 |
Liberation from Pakistan |
Bijoy Dibosh in Bangladesh and Vijay Diwas in India's West Bengal, or Victory Day |
Belarus |
July 3 |
1944 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
Republic Day or Independence Day |
Bulgaria |
March 3[1] |
1878 |
Creation of the Principality of Bulgaria |
Liberation Day |
Cambodia |
January 7 |
1979 |
Liberation from the Khmer Rouge |
Victory Day |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
May 17 |
1997 |
Takeover of Kinshasa by Laurent-Désiré Kabila following the First Congo War[2] |
Liberation Day |
Cuba |
January 1 |
1959 |
Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro |
Triunfo de la Revolución or Triumph of the Revolution |
Czech Republic |
May 8 |
1945 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
Den vítězství (Victory Day), until 2004 called Den osvobození (Liberation Day) |
Ethiopia |
May 5 |
1941 |
Liberation from Italy |
Arbegnoch Qen or Patriots' Day |
Falkland Islands |
June 14 |
1982 |
Liberation from Argentina |
Liberation Day |
France |
August 25 |
1944 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany and the end of the Vichy Regime |
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Greece |
October 12 |
1944 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
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Guam |
July 21 |
1944 |
Liberation from Japan[3][4][5] |
Liberation Day |
Guernsey (Channel Islands) |
May 9 |
1945 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany[6] |
Liberation Day |
Hungary |
April 4 |
1945 |
Siege of Budapest, celebrated between 1950 and 1989 (no longer a holiday as of 1990) |
Liberation Day |
Hong Kong |
Last Monday in August |
1945 |
Liberation from Japan,[7] celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997) |
Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August) |
India |
December 19 (Goa only) |
1961 |
Liberation of Goa from Portugal |
Goa Liberation Day |
Israel |
28 Iyar |
1967 |
Reuinfication of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War |
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) |
Italy |
April 25 |
1945 |
General insurrection in Northern Italy by the Italian Resistance Movement, leading to the end of Benito Mussolini's regime and Nazi German occupation |
Liberazione |
Jersey (Channel Islands) |
May 9 |
1945 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany[8] |
Liberation Day |
Korea, North / Korea, South |
August 15 |
1945 |
Liberation from Japan |
Gwangbokjeol |
Kuwait |
February 26 |
1991 |
Liberation from Iraq[9] |
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Lebanon |
May 25 |
2000 |
Withdrawal of the Israeli Forces from Lebanon |
Liberation Day |
Libya |
October 23 |
2011 |
Muammar Gaddafi killed, ending the 2011 Libyan civil war |
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North Macedonia |
October 11 |
1941 |
Uprising day in North Macedonia, the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia |
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Mali |
November 19 |
1968 |
End of Modibo Keïta's regime |
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Moldova |
August 24 |
1944 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
Liberation Day (Moldova) |
Netherlands |
May 5 |
1945 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
Bevrijdingsdag or Liberation Day |
Nicaragua |
July 19 |
1979 |
Nicaraguan Revolution |
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Northern Mariana Islands |
July 4 |
1945 |
Liberation from Japan |
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Norway |
May 8 |
1945 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
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Poland |
November 11 |
1918 |
Gained independence from German empire, Russian empire, Austria-Hungary in the end of World War I after 123 years of occupation. |
Dzień Niepodległości (Independence Day) |
Portugal |
April 25 |
1974 |
Fall of the Estado Novo (New State) fascist regime: known locally as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos) |
Freedom Day |
Rwanda |
July 4 |
1994 |
Victory of the RPF, ending the Rwandan genocide |
Liberation Day |
Slovakia |
May 8 |
1945 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany |
Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
April 25 |
1982 |
Liberation from Argentina |
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Togo |
January 13 |
1967 |
Military coup under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema[10] |
Jour de la Libération |
Turkey |
August 30 |
1922 |
End of the Turkish War of Independence |
Zafer Bayramı (Victory Day) |
Uganda |
January 26[11] |
1986 |
End of Tito Okello's regime and the capture of power by the Museveni regime |
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Ukraine |
October 28 |
1944 |
Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures Chop |
Liberation Day (Ukraine) |
Vietnam |
April 30 |
1975 |
"Day of liberating the South for national reunification" |
Reunification Day |