Day of National Significance in Barbados
Day of National Significance in Barbados is held on July 26. This event in the third decade of the month July is annual. 
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As the first Caribbean landfall from Europe and Africa, Barbados has functioned since the late 17th century as a major link between western Europe (mainly Great Britain), eastern Caribbean territories, and parts of the South American mainland. Holetown was the first settlement in Barbados.
On July 26 - a date of national commemoration of that country for the labor strikes that took place on that date in 1937, consequences of the crisis in the sugar global market after the great depression resulting from the collapse of the financial market.
Resolution (2015) encourages Barbadians to fully appreciate the importance and meaning of July 26th – the Day of National Significance and all it symbolises; and re-affirms its commitment to the high ideals of good governance and social justice for all as a lasting legacy from the 1937 Disturbances.
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Mother’s Day on May 12 (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe);
Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica on August 1 (Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time);
Kadooment Day in Barbados on August 5 (Harvest Home or Crop Over celebrated on the first Monday of August);
Barbados Independence Day on November 30 (celebrates the independence of Barbados from the United Kingdom in 1966);
CARICOM–Cuba Day on December 8 (Caribbean Community);
Errol Barrow Day in Barbados on January 21
Rihanna Day in Barbados on February 21 (celebrated since 2008 in honor of the famous singer from Barbados)