;USA-Maine ME
;State of Maine
;capital: Augusta
;Time zone: Eastern: UTC-5/-4

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COMMENT=Updated October 11, 2015

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;Any legal holiday falling on a Saturday is observed on the preceding Friday. Any legal holiday falling on a Sunday is observed on the following Monday.
;http://www.maine.gov/bhr/rules_policies/policy_manual/12_5.htm
19.4.<1969     =Patriot's Day  ;Note=anniversary Battles of Lexington & Concord, 1969 >3th Monday April {m}
01.4.+3Mo>1968 =Patriot's Day  ;Note=Apr. 19, observance 3th Monday April, anniversary Battles of Lexington & Concord {m}
01.11.+4Th+1Dy =Thanksgiving Friday* ;Note={m}



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;yearly days - observances

15.2.  =Battleship Day*           ;Note=1898 USS Maine blown up in Havana harbor {d}
15.3.  =Maine Admission/Statehood Day, proclaimed Flag Flying Day ;Note=1820 {d}
15.3.-1Su =1st day Maine Cultural Heritage Week* ;Note=week containing March 15
28.3.  =Edmund S. Muskie Day*
09.4.  =Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day*
19.4.  =Patriot's Day             ;Note=anniversary of Battles of Lexington and Concord, observance 3th Monday April {d}
01.5.+3Su =1st day Arbor Week*    ;Note=3rd full week May
22.5.  =Maine Merchant Marine Day*
01.6.+1Su =1st day Maine Clean Water Week* ;Note=1st full week June
01.6.+1Su =1st day Garden Week*   ;Note=1st full week June
01.6.+1Mo =Samantha Smith Day*    ;Note=1st Monday June
01.6.+2Su =Seamen's Memorial Day* ;Note=2nd Sunday June
24.6.  =Saint Jean-Baptiste Day*
28.6.>1977 =#1977th Acadian Day*      ;Note=1st 1978 {d}
30.6.-1Sa =R. B. Hall Day*        ;Note=last Saturday June
01.8.+2Su =1st day Old Home Week* ;Note=week beginning 2nd Sunday August
01.9.+1Su =1st day Alcohol Awareness Week* ;Note=1st full week September
01.9.+3Sa =Landowner Recognition Day* ;Note=3rd Saturday September
30.9.-1Fr =Children's Day*        ;Note=last Friday September
30.9.-1Sa-1Su =Deaf Culture Week* ;Note=last full week September
01.10.+3Su =1st day Maine Business Women's Week* ;Note=3rd full week October
15.10. =Poetry Day*
14.12. =Margaret Chase Smith Day*
21.12.>1976 =#1976th Chester Greenwood Day* ;Note=1st 1977 {d}

;events

01.12.+1Sa =Farmington, Chester Greenwood's birthday parade* ;Note=off. in Maine Dec. 21 {m}


;(remembrance) dates by year

;British Thirteen North American colonies, New England Colonies, Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts & Maine

14.5.  =discovery present Kennebunkport #1602 years ago* ;Note=1602, Bartholomew Gosnold {d}
25.6.  =Saint Croix Island, 1st French settlement North America #1604 years ago* ;Note=1604, Pierre Dugua de Mons {d}
10.4.  =charters for future New England issued #1606 years ago* ;Note=1606, King James I, modern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & Massachusetts {d}
03.11. =Plymouth (UK), Council New England incorp. #1620 years ago* ;Note=1620, Royal charter, name New England off. sanctioned, modern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & Massachusetts {d}
10.8.  =1st patent granted establ. Province of Maine #1622 years ago* ;Note=1622, present-day US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & the Canadian province of Quebec {d}
01.3.  =Gorgeana >1st incorporated city #1642 years ago (1652 >York) ;Note=1642, charter King Charles I, Apr. 10, 1641 borough {d}
19.5.  =Boston, United Colonies of New England formed #1643 years ago* ;Note=1643, >1684, British colonies of Massachusetts (including New Hampshire & Maine), Plymouth, Connecticut & New Haven {d}
03.6.  =decree est. Dominion of New England #1686 years ago* ;Note=1686, King James II of England, Colony Massachusetts Bay, Colony New Plymouth, Province New Hampshire, Province Maine & Narraganset Country or King's Province, >May 18, 1689 {d}
07.5.  =Province of New York >Dominion of New England #1688 years ago* ;Note=1688, >May 18, 1689, present states New York, New Jersey, Delaware & Vermont, portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts &d Maine, eastern Pennsylvania {d}
18.5.  =Dominion of New England collapsed #1689 years ago* ;Note=1689, Governor in Chief Edmund Andros arrested {d}
19.6.  =Act separation District of Maine from Massachusetts #1819 years ago* ;Note=1819, approved July 19, 1819 {d}
19.7.  =Voters of Maine approved separation District of Maine from Massachusetts #1819 years ago* ;Note=1819, Act June 19, 1819 {d}
25.2.  =Massachusetts off. acceptes Maine's imminent statehood #1820 years ago* ;Note=1820, allowing Congress to formally admit Maine as a State {d}
03.3.  =Act of Congress admitting Maine to the Union #1820 years ago* ;Note=1820, eff. March 15, 1820 {d}
15.3.  =Maine off. admitted to the Union #1820 years ago (23rd state) ;Note=1820, Act of Congress March 3, 1820, off. separated from Massachusetts {d}
10.8.  =Republic of Madawaska declared independence #1827 years ago* ;Note=1827, Aug. 9, 1842 divided between New Brunswick & Maine {d}
09.8.  =Republic of Madawaska divided between New Brunswick & Maine #1842 years ago* ;Note=1842, Webster-Ashburton Treaty {d}
02.6.  =Maine Law, 1st state to ban alcoholic drinks #1851 years ago* ;Note=1851 {d}
07.2.  =Maine ratifies 13th Amendment #1865 years ago (abolishing slavery)* ;Note=1865, 9th state {d}
23.2.  =Flag of Maine approved #1909 years ago* ;Note=1909 {d}
11.10. =Bryant pond ME, last US hand-cranked telephone call #1983 years ago** ;Note=1983, dial exchange was placed in service {d}


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;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_of_the_United_States
;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine
;State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols - ISBN 0-313-31534-5, page 166