Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day 2016

Happy Mother’s Day Holiday Honoring Motherhood to Be Celebrated Sunday

International Mother’s Day Date May, 8 Sunday, 2016 ( Every year Second Sunday of May)

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President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation in 1914 that started the holiday. He asked Americans to give a public expression of reverence to mothers on this day. Carnations have come to represent Mother’s Day, following President William McKinley’s habit of always wearing a white carnation, his mother’s favorite flower.
The holiday is celebrated on the second Sunday in May and has been recognized as a national holiday in the U.S. since 1914.

About Mothers Day

Mother’s Day is a holiday honoring motherhood that is observed in different forms throughout the world. The American incarnation of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. Jarvis would later denounce the holiday’s commercialization and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar. While dates and celebrations vary, Mother’s Day most commonly falls on the second Sunday in May and traditionally involves presenting mothers with flowers, cards and other gifts.

History of Mothers Day

Celebrations of mothers and motherhood can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who held festivals in honor of the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele, but the clearest modern precedent for Mother’s Day is the early Christian festival known as “Mothering Sunday.” Once a major tradition in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, this celebration fell on the fourth Sunday in Lent and was originally seen as a time when the faithful would return to their “mother church”—the main church in the vicinity of their home—for a special service. Over time the Mothering Sunday tradition shifted into a more secular holiday, and children would present their mothers with flowers and other tokens of appreciation. This custom eventually faded in popularity before merging with the American Mother’s Day in the 1930s and 1940s.

How to Celebrate Mothers Day 2016

Mother’s Day are celebrated throughout the world, traditions vary depending on the country. In Thailand, for example, Mother’s Day is always celebrated in August on the birthday of the current queen, Sirikit. Another alternate observance of Mother’s Day can be found in Ethiopia, where families gather each fall to sing songs and eat a large feast as part of Antiheroes, a multi day celebration honoring motherhood.

In the United States, Mother’s Day continues to be celebrated by presenting mothers and other women with gifts and flowers, and it has become one of the biggest holidays for consumer spending. Families might also celebrate by giving mothers a day off from activities like cooking or other household chores. At times Mother’s Day has also been a date for launching political or feminist causes. In 1968 Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr., used Mother’s Day to host a march in support of underprivileged women and children. In the 1970s women’s groups also used the holiday as a time to highlight the need for equal rights and access to childcare.

Mothers Day 2016 Dates all over the World
Occurrence	Dates	Country
First Sunday of February	Feb 1, 2015 Feb 7, 2016 Feb 5, 2017	Kosovo
Second Sunday of February	Feb 8, 2015 Feb 14, 2016 Feb 12, 2017	Norway
3 March		Georgia
8 March		Afghanistan Albania Armenia† Azerbaijan	Bulgaria† Kazakhstan† Laos Macedonia†	Moldova† Montenegro† Romania† Serbia	Slovakia Slovenia† Tajikistan† Vietnam†
Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday)	15 Mar 2015 6 Mar 2016 26 Mar 2017	Ireland Nigeria	United Kingdom Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man
21 March (Springequinox)		Bahrain Comoros Djibouti Egypt	Iraq Jordan Kuwait Libya	Lebanon Mauritania Oman Palestine	Qatar Saudi Arabia Somalia Sudan	Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen
25 March		Slovenia
7 April (Annunciationday)		Armenia (Motherhood and Beauty Day)
First Sunday of May	May 3, 2015 May 1, 2016 May 7, 2017	Angola Cape Verde Hungary	Lithuania Mozambique Portugal	Romania Spain
8 May		South Korea (Parents’ Day)
10 May		El Salvador Guatemala	Mexico
Second Sunday of May	May 10, 2015 May 8, 2016 May 14, 2017	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Bermuda Bonaire Botswana Brazil	Brunei Canada Cambodia Chile China Colombia Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Ecuador	Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland Germany 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
15 May		Paraguay (same day as Día de la Patria)
19 May		Kyrgyzstan (Russian: День матери, Kyrgyz: Энэ күнү)
26 May		Poland (Polish: Dzień Matki)
27 May		Bolivia
Last Sunday of May (sometimes first Sunday of June if the last Sunday of May isPentecost)	May 31, 2015 May 29, 2016 May 28, 2017	Algeria Dominican Republic	France (First Sunday of June ifPentecost occurs on this day) French Antilles (First Sunday of June ifPentecost occurs on this day)	Madagascar Morocco Haiti Mauritius	Senegal Sweden Tunisia
30 May		Nicaragua
1 June		Mongolia† (together with Children’s Day)
Second Sunday of June	Jun 14, 2015 Jun 12, 2016 Jun 11, 2017	Luxembourg
First Monday of July	Jul 6, 2015 Jul 4, 2016 Jul 3, 2017	South Sudan
12 August		Thailand (birthday of Queen Sirikit)
15 August (Assumption of Mary)		Costa Rica Antwerp (Belgium)
Second Monday of October	Oct 12, 2015 Oct 10, 2016 Oct 9, 2017	Malawi
14 October		Belarus (since 1996)
Third Sunday of October	Oct 18, 2015 Oct 16, 2016 Oct 15, 2017	Argentina (Día de la Madre)
3 November		Timor Leste
8 December (Feast of the Immaculate Conception)		Panama
22 December		Indonesia
Hebrew calendars
Occurrence	EquivalentGregorian dates	Country
Shevat 30	Between 30 January and 1 March	Israel
Hindu calendars
Occurrence	EquivalentGregorian dates	Country
BaisakhAmavasya(Mata Tirtha Aunsi)	Between 19 April and 19 May	Nepal
Islamic calendars
Occurrence	EquivalentGregorian dates	Country
20 Jumada al-Thani[n 1]	20 April 2016 10 April 2016 30 March 2016	Iran

Source wikipedia.org

Mothers Day in UK and Ireland Sunday 12 March, 2017