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Seychelles : public and bank holidays, closure of banks, stock exchanges, school vacations
Seychelles : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
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| Date | Name | Kind | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday may 1, 2024 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday |  |
| Monday may 13, 2024 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Monday may 27, 2024 | Mid-term holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Thursday may 30, 2024 | Corpus Cristi | Catholic | |
| Wednesday june 5, 2024 | Liberation Day | cards/flowers | |
| Thursday june 6, 2024 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Tuesday june 18, 2024 | Constitution Day | Secular holiday | |
| Saturday june 29, 2024 | Independence Day | National Day | |
| Friday august 9, 2024 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Thursday august 15, 2024 | Assumption | Catholic | |
| Monday september 9, 2024 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Friday september 13, 2024 | Mid-term holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Monday september 23, 2024 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Labor Day/May Day
-Wednesday may 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Mid-term holiday (end)
-Monday may 13, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
-Monday may 27, 2024
School holidays :
Corpus Cristi
-Thursday may 30, 2024
Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Liberation Day
-Wednesday june 5, 2024
cards/flowers : Commemorates the resolution which lead to independence on June 29, 1976
Mid-term holiday (end)
-Thursday june 6, 2024
School holidays :
Constitution Day
-Tuesday june 18, 2024
Secular holiday : The 1979 constitution declared a socialist one-party state, which lasted until 1991.
The first draft of a new constitution failed to receive the requisite 60% of voters in 1992, but an amended version was approved in 1993. [Wikipedia]
Independence Day
-Saturday june 29, 2024
Secular holiday : Independence Day is celebrated on the same day as the National Day.
Commemorates Seychelles' transition from a British colony (since 1903) to an independent republic in 1976. It had been a dependency of Mauritius, which was then ruled by France.
Summer holiday (beginning)
-Friday august 9, 2024
School holidays :
Assumption
-Thursday august 15, 2024
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Summer holiday (end)
-Monday september 9, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
-Friday september 13, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (end)
-Monday september 23, 2024
School holidays :
