| Spring holiday (end) - Monday April 6, 2020 School holidays :
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| Palm Sunday - Sunday April 12, 2020 Culture :
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| Passover - Wednesday April 15, 2020 cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus NOT a public holiday
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| Orthodox Easter - Sunday April 19, 2020 Orthodox : Paid holiday
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| Chernobyl nuclear incident anniversary (not a bank holiday) - Sunday April 26, 2020 Culture : Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy
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| Public holiday - Monday April 27, 2020 Secular holiday :
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| All Saints' Day - Tuesday April 28, 2020 Orthodox : 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. banks remain open
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| Labor Day/May Day - Friday May 1, 2020 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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| Victory Day - Saturday May 9, 2020 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.
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| Flag Day - Sunday May 10, 2020 Culture : This holiday is dedicated to the main symbols of the country which embody the ideas of national unity and are the major attributes of sovereignty and independence in Belarus. [www.belarus.by]
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Saturday May 30, 2020 School holidays :
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| Kupalle - Sunday June 21, 2020 Culture : The most popular celebration in contemporary Belarus. It is a hedonistic summer celebration of fertility in the name of a female God: Kupala
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| Remembrance Day - Monday June 22, 2020 Culture : Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Great Patriotic War
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| Independence Day - Friday July 3, 2020 Secular holiday : Belarus celebrate their independence on July 3, commemorating that date in 1944, when as part of the huge Soviet offensive Operation Bagration the Soviet Republic of Belarus was liberated from German occupation. Post-Soviet Belarus gained their independence on August 25, 1991. Belarussians therefore celebrate their independence on the day when the Soviets liberated them, rather than the day on which they received independence from the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
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| International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar - Thursday July 9, 2020 Culture : Lasts 3 days -
http://www.belarus.by/ in Vitebsk 2015 edition confirmed
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