Bank holiday

A bank holiday is the name used for a public holiday in both the United Kingdom, Ireland, and some other Commonwealth countries. The UK started using bank holidays in 1871.
List of bank holidays.
The below is a list of such holidays in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An "X" underneath a country's name means that country uses that date as a bank holiday
In other countries.
India has 15 bank holidays
Hong Kong calls public holidays "bank holidays", even though they are not officially called that.