Spring holiday in the UK
Spring holiday in the UK is held on May 26. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual. 
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From 1978, the final Monday of May in Scotland (a statutory holiday in the rest of the UK) and the first Monday in May in the rest of the UK (a statutory holiday in Scotland) have been proclaimed as bank holidays.
Statutory bank holiday from 1971, following a trial period from 1965 to 1971. Replaced Whit Monday, which had been a public holiday since 1871, and whose date varied according to the date of Easter. Most schools fix a minimum of a week's break to coincide, giving the alternative name. The legislation does not specify a name for the holiday, merely when it occurs. It normally falls on the last Monday in May, but in 2002, 2012 and 2022 it was moved a few days into June and was followed by an extra bank holiday, in order to create a four-day jubilee weekend in celebration of Elizabeth II's 50, 60 and 70 years of reign.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Aldersgate Day/Wesley Day on May 24 (Methodism);
Emergency Medicine Day on May 27
Castleton Garland Day on May 29 (Castleton, England);
National Biscuit Day in USA and UK on May 29
Anguilla Day on May 30 (commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967);
Prudential Day on May 30
National Volunteer Week in UK on June 1 (is held in the first week of June)