| 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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| Ascension - Thursday May 10, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
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| Pentecost holiday (beginning) - Friday May 18, 2018 School holidays :
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| Pentecost (beginning) - Friday May 18, 2018 School holidays :
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| Pentecost - Sunday May 20, 2018 Catholic or protestant : paid holiday
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| Whit Monday - Monday May 21, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
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| Pentecost holiday (end) - Tuesday May 22, 2018 School holidays :
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| Pentecost (end) - Tuesday May 22, 2018 School holidays :
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| Corpus Cristi - Thursday May 31, 2018 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.
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday June 29, 2018 School holidays :
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| Assumption - Thursday August 15, 2019 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.
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| Summer holiday (end) - Monday September 3, 2018 School holidays :
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| Wachau Marathon - Sunday September 23, 2018 Sports events : Http://www.wachaumarathon.at/ 2018 edition confirmed
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| National Day - Friday October 26, 2018 Secular holiday : The Declaration of Neutrality was a declaration by the Austrian Parliament declaring the country permanently neutral. It was enacted on 26 October 1955 as a constitutional act of parliament, i.e., as part of the Constitution of Austria.
Formally, the declaration was promulgated voluntarily by the Republic of Austria. Politically, it was the direct consequence of the allied occupation by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France between 1945 and 1955, from which the country was freed by the Austrian State Treaty of 15 May the same year. The Soviet Union would not have agreed to the State Treaty if Austria had not committed herself to declare her neutrality after the allied forces had left the country. [Wikipedia]
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| All Saints (beginning) - Wednesday October 31, 2018 School holidays :
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| All Saints' Day - Thursday November 1, 2018 Catholic : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. (World Book Encyclopedia)
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| All Saints (end) - Monday November 5, 2018 School holidays :
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| St Leopold - Thursday November 15, 2018 Secular holiday :
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