| New Year's Day - Wednesday January 1, 2020 Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| School holidays - Friday January 1, 2021 School holidays : Official calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
number of instructional days: 180
schools may open on Saturday
school uniforms generally required
confirmed till Feb 2020
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| Colonial Repression Martyrs' Day - Monday January 4, 2021 Culture : In tribute to the outbreak of armed struggle against the Portuguese
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| Optional holiday - Friday January 15, 2021 Secular holiday : The Former Combatants and Veterans of the Motherland Day
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| Regional holiday - Saturday January 25, 2020 Secular holiday : Luanda Day Luanda only
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| Beginning of school year - Friday January 31, 2020 School holidays :
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| Beginning of Armed Upraising - Tuesday February 4, 2020 Secular holiday : Anniversary of the 4 February of 1961 uprising, which marked the beginning of the armed struggle for the national liberation of Angola, in the history of the Portuguese fascist colonial regime, for the achievement of the national independence paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Valentine's Day - Friday February 14, 2020 cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
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| Carnival holiday (beginning) - Saturday February 22, 2020 School holidays :
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| Carnival - Tuesday February 25, 2020 Banks only :
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| Carnival - Tuesday February 25, 2020 Culture :
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| Carnival holiday (end) - Wednesday February 26, 2020 School holidays :
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| Womens' Day - Monday March 9, 2020 Secular holiday : The idea of an international women's day was first put forward at the turn of the 20th century amid rapid world industrialization and economic expansion that led to protests over working conditions. Women from clothing and textile factories staged one such protest on 8 March 1857 in New York City. The garment workers were protesting what they saw as very poor working conditions and low wages. The protesters were attacked and dispersed by police. These women established their first labor union two years later.
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| Liberation Day - Monday March 23, 2020 Secular holiday : The Cuito Cuanavale Battle in the southwest Cuando Cubango Province between August 14, 1987 and March 23, 1988
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| Day of Peace and Reconciliation - Saturday April 4, 2020 Secular holiday :
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| Good Friday - Friday April 10, 2020 Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
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| Easter - Sunday April 12, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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