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UK Holidays
The English word holiday comes from the phrase "holy day", "holy day", which in the past was dedicated to worship. Nowadays, there are both religious and secular holidays.

Holidays for every day of the year.
In addition, there are a number of strange holidays, weird holidays — one or more for every day of the year. For example, Straw Bear Festival and Scarecrow Festival are held in the UK and Blessing of the Throats Day are celebrated, Cheese Rolling Championships are held and diving mask swimming in the swamp (Bog Snorkeling Championships) — and so on and so forth.

Christmas.
December 25 — ChristmasMost Britons celebrate Christmas without even being religious. On this day, Christmas trees are set up, gifts are given, Christmas carols are sung, mulled wine is drunk, sweet cakes with raisins and almonds are eaten (minced pies). And if Christmas is "white" (white Christmas), that is, it is snowing — they make snowmen and arrange snowball fights.

New Year’s Day
On the night of December 31 to January 1, residents of the United Kingdom celebrate the New year. This holiday is traditionally celebrated with family and friends, greeting the first minutes of the new year with an old song to the words of the Scottish poet Robert Burns ‘Auld lang syne'.

14 января — День Святого Валентина (Valentine’s Day)
Love is in the air! The historical Valentine's Day in our time is a holiday of love. Many residents of the United Kingdom have dinner in restaurants with their sweethearts, give them Valentine's cards, chocolates, sweets.

Shrovetide Tuesday or "Pancake Day" (Shrovetide or "Shrovetide Day")
Вторник масленицы (Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday) — день накануне начала поста, пепельной среды (Ash Wednesday).
Pancakes in England are made thin (unlike American ones) and are most often served with lemon and sugar or with corn syrup (golden syrup).In some towns in the UK, pancake races are also held, where participants try to run the distance with a frying pan in their hands, tossing a pancake on the run.

Mother’s Day / Mothering Sunday.
Mother's Day in England is almost always celebrated in March, three weeks before Easter Sunday. On this day, mothers are honored and thanked for all that they do for us. It is customary to give mothers postcards, gifts, invite them to a restaurant or cook a festive lunch for them.

Father’s day.
3rd Sunday in June — Father's dayFathers, grandfathers, stepfathers, fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law are honored on this Day. Many Britons give their older male relatives a postcard or a gift, arrange a joint dinner or a trip to a restaurant.

Notting Hill Carnival.
August 25 — Notting Hill CarnivalHeld in West London on a bank holiday, this carnival is Europe's largest street celebration. About 1 million people come to admire the colorful carnival platforms, dancers in bright spectacular costumes, hear the sounds of salsa and reggae and enjoy Caribbean cuisine from street stalls.

Halloween.
Halloween is also celebrated in the UK. But unlike Americans, who on this day can be seen in the most bizarre and diverse costumes, not necessarily scary, the British, mostly, tend to look creepy and frightening.A children's tradition of begging for treats from neighbors (trick-and-treating — "sweetness or nastiness", "purse or life").

Easter.
Easter Sunday:  Date varies.  In the Christian calendar, Easter is the most holy day of the year as it celebrates Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.People celebrate Easter in different ways, but many give each other chocolate Easter eggs and eat ‘hot cross buns’ (sweet buns with a cross design), while children decorate eggs or take part in Easter egg hunts.

The Queen’s Official Birthday.
14th — The Queen’s Official Birthday. Although the Queen’s real birthday is on the 21st of April, it has been a tradition since 1748 to celebrate the king or queen’s birthday in June. A military parade known as Trooping the Colour is held in London, attended by the Royal Family.

St Patrick’s Day.
17th — St Patrick’s Day (Northern Ireland). The Feast of St Patrick is a national holiday in Ireland, and is now celebrated by Irish communities all around the world. In the UK, there are St Patrick’s Day events in cities including Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester and London, as well as Belfast. Many people go out with friends, wearing green or a shamrock symbol (the lucky clover).