Editing Holiday (section)

==Global holidays==<!-- This section is intended as information about secular holidays celebrated on a global scale by people of multiple ethnic or religious backgrounds, or holidays with similar characteristics in different cultures. Christmas is included as a mostly secular holiday. For global religious holidays, look to the religious section below. -->

The celebration of the New Year has been a common holiday across cultures for at least four millennia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Year's |url=https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/new-years |date=February 16, 2010 |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref> Such holidays normally celebrate the last day of a year and the arrival of the next year in a calendar system. In modern cultures using the Gregorian calendar, the New Year's celebration spans [[New Year's Eve]] on 31 December and [[New Year's Day]] on 1 January. However, other calendar systems also have New Year's celebration, such as [[Chinese New Year]] and [[Tết|Vietnamese Tet]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Crump |first=William D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cDTfCwAAQBAJ&q=global+holidays |title=Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9545-0 |language=en}}</ref> New Year's Day is the most common public holiday, observed by all countries using the Gregorian calendar except [[Israel]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Year's Day around the world in 2023 |url=https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/international-new-years-day |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=Office Holidays |language=en}}</ref>

[[Christmas]] is a popular holiday globally due to the [[spread of Christianity]]. The holiday is recognised as a [[Observance of Christmas by country|public holiday]] in many countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australasia and is celebrated by over 2 billion people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-19 |title=Christmas Day around the world |url=https://blog.officeholidays.com/christmas/christmas-day-around-the-world/ |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=Office Holidays Blog |language=en-GB}}</ref> Although a holiday with religious origins, Christmas is often celebrated by non-Christians as a secular holiday. For example, 61% of British people celebrate Christmas in an entirely secular way.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=How Britons celebrate Christmas and Easter {{!}} YouGov |url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/articles-reports/2020/12/29/how-britons-celebrate-christmas-and-easter |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=yougov.co.uk |language=en-gb}}</ref> Christmas has also become a tradition in some non-Christian countries. For many [[Japanese people]], it has become customary to buy and eat [[fried chicken]] on Christmas.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Kate Springer |title=How KFC became a Christmas tradition in Japan |url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/kfc-christmas-tradition-japan/index.html |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=CNN |date=24 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Barton |first=Eric |title=Why Japan celebrates Christmas with KFC |url=https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161216-why-japan-celebrates-christmas-with-kfc |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}</ref>

Recently invented holidays commemorate a range of modern social and political issues and other important topics. The United Nations publishes a list of International Days and Weeks. One such day is [[International Women's Day]] on 8 March, which celebrates women's achievements and campaigns for gender equality and women's rights.<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Women's Day 2023 campaign theme: Embrace Equity |url=https://www.internationalwomensday.com/ |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=International Women's Day |language=en}}</ref> [[Earth Day]] has been celebrated by people across the world since 1970, with 10,000 events in 2007. It is a holiday marking the dangers of environmental damage, such as [[pollution]] and the [[climate crisis]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earth Day Timeline |url=https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/earth-day-timeline |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=history.com |language=en}}</ref>