Boxing Day

bank or public holiday that occurs on 26 December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day
Event public_holiday Q956699
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Boxing Day

Summary

Boxing Day is a public holiday[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of public_holiday entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,517 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Boxing Day's image is recorded as Geschenke-2007.JPG[3].
  • Boxing Day's instance of is recorded as public holiday[4].
  • Boxing Day's instance of is recorded as Christmas tradition[5].
  • Boxing Day's instance of is recorded as shopping day[6].
  • Boxing Day's instance of is recorded as bank holiday[7].
  • Boxing Day's follows is recorded as Christmas Day[8].
  • Boxing Day's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2011004257[9].
  • Boxing Day's subclass of is recorded as celebration[10].
  • Boxing Day's part of is recorded as Boxing Week[11].
  • Boxing Day's part of is recorded as Christmastide[12].
  • Boxing Day's Commons category is recorded as Boxing Day[13].
  • Boxing Day's said to be the same as is recorded as Second Day of Christmas[14].
  • Boxing Day's said to be the same as is recorded as Saint Stephen's Day[15].
  • Boxing Day's commemorates is recorded as Second Day of Christmas[16].
  • Boxing Day's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01hdg[17].
  • Boxing Day's day in year for periodic occurrence is recorded as December 26[18].
  • Boxing Day's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Boxing-Day[19].
  • Boxing Day's BBC Things ID is recorded as 132704cd-677b-4593-9e81-a6e847402ef0[20].
  • Boxing Day's FAST ID is recorded as 1893034[21].
  • Boxing Day's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00012562n[22].
  • Boxing Day's Quora topic ID is recorded as Boxing-Day[23].
  • Boxing Day's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20387552[24].
  • Boxing Day's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Boxing_Day[25].
  • Boxing Day's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as ethnographicTerms/afset002154[26].
  • Boxing Day's FactGrid item ID is recorded as Chula[27].

Why It Matters

Boxing Day ranks in the top 6% of public_holiday entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,517 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . FactGrid. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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