Country | Date | Year | Event | Name of holiday |
Afghanistan | February 15 | 1989 | Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan | Liberation Day |
Albania | November 29 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Dita e Çlirimit or Liberation Day |
Bangladesh | December 16 | 1971 | Liberation from Pakistan | Bijoy Dibosh in Bangladesh and Vijay Diwas in India's West Bengal, or Victory Day |
Belarus | July 3 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Republic Day or Independence Day |
Bulgaria | March 3[1] | 1878 | Creation of the Principality of Bulgaria | Liberation Day |
Cambodia | January 7 | 1979 | Liberation from the Khmer Rouge | Victory Day |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | May 17 | 1997 | Takeover of Kinshasa by Laurent-Désiré Kabila following the First Congo War[2] | Liberation Day |
Cuba | January 1 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro | Triunfo de la Revolución or Triumph of the Revolution |
Czech Republic | May 8 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Den vítězství (Victory Day), until 2004 called Den osvobození (Liberation Day) |
Ethiopia | May 5 | 1941 | Liberation from Italy | Arbegnoch Qen or Patriots' Day |
Falkland Islands | June 14 | 1982 | Liberation from Argentina | Liberation Day |
France | August 25 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany and the end of the Vichy Regime | |
Greece | October 12 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | |
Guam | July 21 | 1944 | Liberation from Japan[3][4][5] | Liberation Day |
Guernsey (Channel Islands) | May 9 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany[6] | Liberation Day |
Hungary | April 4 | 1945 | Siege of Budapest, celebrated between 1950 and 1989 (no longer a holiday as of 1990) | Liberation Day |
Hong Kong | Last Monday in August | 1945 | Liberation from Japan,[7] celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997) | Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August) |
India | December 19 (Goa only) | 1961 | Liberation of Goa from Portugal | Goa Liberation Day |
Israel | 28 Iyar | 1967 | Reuinfication of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War | Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) |
Italy | April 25 | 1945 | General insurrection in Northern Italy by the Italian Resistance Movement, leading to the end of Benito Mussolini's regime and Nazi German occupation | Liberazione |
Jersey (Channel Islands) | May 9 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany[8] | Liberation Day |
Korea, North / Korea, South | August 15 | 1945 | Liberation from Japan | Gwangbokjeol |
Kuwait | February 26 | 1991 | Liberation from Iraq[9] | |
Lebanon | May 25 | 2000 | Withdrawal of the Israeli Forces from Lebanon | Liberation Day |
Libya | October 23 | 2011 | Muammar Gaddafi killed, ending the 2011 Libyan civil war | |
North Macedonia | October 11 | 1941 | Uprising day in North Macedonia, the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia | |
Mali | November 19 | 1968 | End of Modibo Keïta's regime | |
Moldova | August 24 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Liberation Day (Moldova) |
Netherlands | May 5 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Bevrijdingsdag or Liberation Day |
Nicaragua | July 19 | 1979 | Nicaraguan Revolution | |
Northern Mariana Islands | July 4 | 1945 | Liberation from Japan | |
Norway | May 8 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | |
Poland | November 11 | 1918 | Gained independence from German empire, Russian empire, Austria-Hungary in the end of World War I after 123 years of occupation. | Dzień Niepodległości (Independence Day) |
Portugal | April 25 | 1974 | Fall of the Estado Novo (New State) fascist regime: known locally as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos) | Freedom Day |
Rwanda | July 4 | 1994 | Victory of the RPF, ending the Rwandan genocide | Liberation Day |
Slovakia | May 8 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | April 25 | 1982 | Liberation from Argentina | |
Togo | January 13 | 1967 | Military coup under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema[10] | Jour de la Libération |
Turkey | August 30 | 1922 | End of the Turkish War of Independence | Zafer Bayramı (Victory Day) |
Uganda | January 26[11] | 1986 | End of Tito Okello's regime and the capture of power by the Museveni regime | |
Ukraine | October 28 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures Chop | Liberation Day (Ukraine) |
Vietnam | April 30 | 1975 | "Day of liberating the South for national reunification" | Reunification Day |