November 2 Holidays

Day of the Dead — Día de los Muertos — is the Mexican festival merging pre-Columbian Aztec rituals honoring the dead with Catholic observances of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days — observed with elaborate ofrendas (altars), sugar skulls, marigolds, and family gatherings at gravesites to welcome the spirits of the departed. All Souls Day is the Catholic observance on November 2 for all the faithful departed — a day of prayer, requiem masses, and grave-side candle lighting that complements All Saints Day and is observed across Catholic-majority countries worldwide. All Saints Day (Colombia) is the Colombian public holiday observing All Saints Day, which shifts its public holiday observance to November 2 in some years. Arrival of Indentured Labourers is a public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago marking May 30, 1845, when the first ships carrying Indian indentured laborers arrived — the ancestors of approximately 37 percent of the country’s population — commemorated to acknowledge this foundational moment in Indo-Caribbean history.