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Commonwealth Day
Der "Commonwealth Day" findet jährlich am zweiten Montag im März statt. Er erinnert an die Zusammenarbeit der Mitgliedsstaaten des "Commonwealth". Dazu zählen über 50 Länder die meist aus einst abhängigen Gebieten des "British Empire" hervorgingen.
Der "Commonwealth Day" wurde ursprünglich auf den Geburtstag von Queen Victoria gelegt.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gab im Jahr 1958 die Umbenennung des seit 1904 gefeierten "Empire Day" in "Commonwealth Day" bekannt.
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Commonwealth: Association of states
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Last Updated 7-20-2014
Alternate title: British Commonwealth of Nations
"Commonwealth", also called "Commonwealth of Nations", formerly (1931-49) "British Commonwealth of Nations", a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head of their association. In 1965 the Commonwealth Secretariat was established in London to organize and coordinate Commonwealth activities.
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Members of the Commonwealth
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Botswana
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guyana
- India
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia (formerly Malaya)
- Maldives
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- The Bahamas
- The Gambia
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
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Commonwealth Day
In 1973 the National Council in Canada of the Royal Commonwealth Society in a letter to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau suggested that the idea of Commonwealth Day to be observed simultaneously throughout the Commonwealth be included on the agenda for the Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Ottawa that year. The proposal was not included in the agenda of that meeting but did appear as a Canadian item on the agenda of the 1975 meeting.
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Commonwealth Day is celebrated by young people, schools, communities and civil society organisations every year on the second Monday in March.
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Commonwealth Day - British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth
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Commonwealth Day
Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations held on the second Monday in March, and marked by a multi-faith service in Westminster Abbey, normally attended by Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth, with the Commonwealth Secretary-General and Commonwealth High Commissioners in London. The Queen delivers an address to the Commonwealth, broadcast throughout the world.
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ContentsHistory
- 1 History
- 2 Observance
- 2.1 Australia
- 2.2 Canada
- 2.3 United Kingdom
- 2.4 Gibraltar
- 2.5 Other Commonwealth countries
- 3 Other related holidays
- 4 Commonwealth Day Themes
- 5 See also
- 6 Footnotes
- 7 External links
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"Empire Day" was introduced in the UK in 1904 by Reginald Brabazon, the 7th Earl of Meath, 'to nurture a sense of collective identity and imperial responsibility among young empire citizens'. In schools, morning lessons were devoted to "exercises calculated to remind (the children) of their mighty heritage". The centrepiece of the day was an organised and ritualistic veneration of the Union flag. Then, schoolchildren were given the afternoon off, and further events were usually held in their local community. "Empire Day" became more of a sombre commemoration in the aftermath of World War I, and politically partisan as the Labour Party passed a resolution in 1926 to prevent the further celebration of "Empire Day". After World War II, the event fell into rapid decline, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan bowed to the inevitable on 18 December 1958, when he announced in Parliament that the name of "Empire Day" would be changed forthwith to "Commonwealth Day".
The Union Flag is flown from public buildings on the second Monday in March to mark "Commonwealth Day". The Scottish Parliament Building also flies the Commonwealth flag from the fourth flagpole.
The Queen, and other members of the Royal family, attend a special service at Westminster Abbey.
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