| Labor Day/May Day - Tuesday May 1, 2018 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 .
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| Parliament recess (end) - Tuesday May 1, 2018 Special Events :
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| General strike announced - Thursday May 3, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| WORKING DAY - Saturday May 5, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| Peace Day - Thursday May 9, 2019 Secular holiday : Marks the capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and other principal Allied nations) in Berlin on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender was signed (in the midnight), it was already May 9 in the USSR and Eastern Europe http://www.tintdude.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t26067.html
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Saturday May 26, 2018 School holidays :
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| First Republic Day - Tuesday May 28, 2019 Secular holiday : In tribute to the 1918 Declaration of First Armenian Republic Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Constitution's Day - Friday July 5, 2019 Secular holiday : Adopted by referendum on July 5, 1995.
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| Golden Apricot film festival - Sunday July 8, 2018 Culture : Lasts 10 days -
http://www.gaiff.am/ in Erevan 2018 edition confirmed
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| Transfiguration Day - Monday July 9, 2018 Orthodox : This celebration Vardavar is linked to pagan Goddess Astghik. According to the legend she spread love on earth, walking over roses that turn red from her blood. As goddess of fertility she is associated with water.
Traditional water splashing. www.yerevan.am
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| Dormition of the Virgin - Wednesday August 15, 2018 Culture :
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| Summer holiday (end) - Saturday September 1, 2018 School holidays :
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| Regional holiday - Sunday September 2, 2018 Secular holiday : Nagorno-Karabakh independence day
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| Armenia Expo - Friday September 7, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days - in Yerevan
http://expo.am/ 2018 edition confirmed
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| All Souls' Day - Thursday September 13, 2018 cards/flowers : Commemoration of the Faithful Departed Day (Merelots)
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| Exhaltation of the Cross - Monday September 17, 2018 Orthodox :
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| Independence Day - Friday September 21, 2018 Secular holiday : On 21 September, 1991 a referendum called for secession from the Soviet Union. Independence was restored to the Republic of Armenia after 70 years of sovietization.
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| Parliament recess (end) - Tuesday October 2, 2018 Special Events :
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| High Fest - Friday October 5, 2018 Culture : Lasts 10 days -
http://www.highfest.am in Erevan 2018 edition NOT confirmed
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| Holy Translator's Day - Saturday October 13, 2018 Culture : Religious holiday celebrating Mesrop Mashtots, who did the first translations after the Armenian alphabet was created. http://armenianendowment.org/
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| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Friday October 26, 2018 School holidays :
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| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday October 28, 2018 Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Monday November 5, 2018 School holidays :
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