Bahamas : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Sunday May 8, 2022 | Mothers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Wednesday May 25, 2022 | Ascension holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday May 30, 2022 | Ascension holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday June 3, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Friday June 3, 2022 | Labour Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday June 6, 2022 | Whit Monday | Catholic or protestant | |
Tuesday June 7, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday June 17, 2022 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday June 19, 2022 | Fathers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Sunday July 10, 2022 | National Day | National Day | |
Monday July 11, 2022 | National Day | National Day | |
Monday August 1, 2022 | Emancipation Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday August 22, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday October 7, 2022 | Autumn holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday October 10, 2022 | National Heroes Day | Secular holiday | |
Tuesday October 18, 2022 | Autumn holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 8, 2022
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
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 25, 2022
School holidays :
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday May 30, 2022
School holidays :
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 3, 2022
School holidays :
Labour Day
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Friday June 3, 2022
Secular holiday :
Whit Monday
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Monday June 6, 2022
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.
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday June 7, 2022
School holidays :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 17, 2022
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 19, 2022
cards/flowers :
National Day
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Sunday July 10, 2022
Secular holiday : Independence was granted by the UK in 1973
National Day
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Monday July 11, 2022
Secular holiday : Independence was granted by the UK in 1973
Emancipation Day
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Monday August 1, 2022
Secular holiday : The English settled in the Bahamas during the mid-17th century and brought African slaves with them to work in the cotton fields. Slavery was formally abolished in the British Empire by the Abolition Act of 1833, but it wasn't until 1838 that the slaves in the Bahamas were freed.
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday August 22, 2022
School holidays :
Autumn holiday (beginning)
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Friday October 7, 2022
School holidays :
National Heroes Day
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Monday October 10, 2022
Secular holiday : Formerly known as Discovery Day or Columbus Day, is now dedicated to honoring Bahamian national heroes.
Autumn holiday (end)
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Tuesday October 18, 2022
School holidays :