Easter Monday
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Monday april 1, 2024
Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday april 5, 2024
School holidays :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday april 10, 2024
Muslim, Sufi :
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday april 22, 2024
School holidays :
Labor Day/May Day
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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 .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 12, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday may 17, 2024
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Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday may 21, 2024
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Indian Arrival Day
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Wednesday june 5, 2024
Culture : Celebrates the arrival of the first East Indians in 1873.
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Sunday june 16, 2024
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
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Summer holiday (beginning)
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Sunday june 30, 2024
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Abolition of Slavery
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Monday july 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Also called Keti Koti ( chains have been broken ), which refers to the abolition of slavery. The Netherlands were the last European power to emancipate the slaves in their colonies on this date in 1863. Not a paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Javanese New Year
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Thursday august 8, 2024
Hinduism : Sasi Sura
13% of the population have Javanese origins
Day of the Indigenous People
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Friday august 9, 2024
Secular holiday : In tribute to the country's various communities (East Indian, Creole, Javanese, Maroon, Amerindian, Chinese...).
Observed since 2009.
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday august 19, 2024
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Rosh Hashanah
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Thursday october 3, 2024
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
National Day of the Maroons
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Thursday october 10, 2024
Secular holiday : To commemorate the peace accord that freedom-fighting runaway slaves signed with colonizers on October 10th 1760.
Fall holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 25, 2024
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