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.
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday april 10, 2024
cards/flowers : The month of Ramadan is that in which was revealed the Quran; a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present, let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, a number of other days. Allah desires for you ease; He desires not hardship for you; and that you should complete the period, and that you should magnify Allah for having guided you, and that perhaps you may be thankful [Wikipedia]
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday april 23, 2024
School holidays :
President's Day
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Sunday april 28, 2024
Secular holiday : In honour of founding president Kenneth Kaunda from 2022
President's Day
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Monday april 29, 2024
Secular holiday : In honour of founding president Kenneth Kaunda from 2022
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 .
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday may 6, 2024
School holidays :
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
Africa Day
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Saturday may 25, 2024
Secular holiday : From 2009 When the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was created in May of 1963, the founding delegates proclaimed May 25, 1963 African Liberation Day (ALD), as the successor commemoration day of Africa Freedom Day.
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
cards/flowers :
Africa Day
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Sunday june 23, 2024
Culture : Africa Public Service Day
Zambia International Trade Fair
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Wednesday june 26, 2024
Tradeshows : Lasts 1 week -
www.zitf.org.zm in Ndola 2024 edition confirmed
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 28, 2024
School holidays :
Heroes Day
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Monday july 1, 2024
Secular holiday : In tribute to soldiers who died in the independence movement
Unity Day
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Tuesday july 2, 2024
Secular holiday :
Victoria Falls Marathon
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Sunday july 7, 2024
Sports events : Https://www.vicfallsmarathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Winter holiday (end)
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Tuesday july 23, 2024
School holidays :
Farmers' Day
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Monday august 5, 2024
Secular holiday :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 4, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Tuesday october 15, 2024
School holidays :
National Prayer Day
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Friday october 18, 2024
Secular holiday :
Independence Day
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Thursday october 24, 2024
Secular holiday : Granted by the UK in 1963