Bank Holiday dates in 2022 and 2023 - including possible day for King's Coronation and 'moved' Christmas Day
The UK has an average of eight public holidays a year. This year has been an exception, with Bank Holidays added to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee as well as her funeral last month.
. In 1953, when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, June 2 was named 'Coronation Day' and a Bank Holiday was declared, our colleagues over at Hull Live report. The Palace has yet to announce whether there will be a Bank Holiday for the King's Coronation. The next Bank Holiday will be on Monday, December 26 - Boxing Day. That's because the Bank Holiday for Christmas Day, which falls on a Sunday this year, is moving to Tuesday, December 27.The first Bank Holiday in 2023 will be on Monday January 2 - a substitute day for New Year's Day, which also falls on a Sunday. There will then be no Bank Holiday until Good Friday, which falls on April 7.
The first Bank Holiday was held in 1871, when Sir John Lubbock, a banker, added four days to the two common law holidays that were already observed. The new holidays were Easter Monday, Whit Monday , the first Monday in August and Boxing Day. The were called bank holidays because banks tended to close.
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