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Belize : 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

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    Wednesday march 6, 2024Municipal electionSpecial Events
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    Monday march 11, 2024National Heroes and Benefactors DaySecular holiday
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    Friday march 22, 2024Easter holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Friday march 29, 2024Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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    Saturday march 30, 2024Holy SaturdayCatholic
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    Monday april 1, 2024Easter MondayCatholic or protestant
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    Monday april 8, 2024Easter holiday (end)School holidays
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    Monday april 29, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Sunday may 12, 2024Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Sunday june 16, 2024Fathers' Daycards/flowers
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    Friday june 28, 2024Summer holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Thursday august 1, 2024Emancipation DaySecular holiday
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    Monday september 2, 2024Summer holiday (end)School holidays
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    Tuesday september 10, 2024St George Caye DaySecular holiday
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    Saturday september 21, 2024Independence DayNational Day
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    Municipal election

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    Wednesday march 6, 2024
    Special Events :

    National Heroes and Benefactors Day

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    Monday march 11, 2024
    Secular holiday : In tribute to an Englishman, Sir Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss, a great benefactor of Belize.

    Easter holiday (beginning)

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    Friday march 22, 2024
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    Good Friday

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    Friday march 29, 2024
    Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.

    Holy Saturday

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    Saturday march 30, 2024
    Catholic : Paid holiday

    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.

    Easter holiday (end)

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    Monday april 8, 2024
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    Labor Day/May Day

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    Monday april 29, 2024
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    Mothers' Day

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    Sunday may 12, 2024
    cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s 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. Howe’s 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 women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914

    Fathers' Day

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    Sunday june 16, 2024
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    Summer holiday (beginning)

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    Friday june 28, 2024
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    Emancipation Day

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    Thursday august 1, 2024
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    Summer holiday (end)

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    Monday september 2, 2024
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    St George Caye Day

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    Tuesday september 10, 2024
    Secular holiday : The area was originally settled by the Spanish. In the XVIIth century British settlers came, interested in the mahogany forests. After many conflicts with the Spanish, war broke out in 1796. A Spanish army was sent to expel the British settlers. But in 1798 The battle of St. George Cay was won by a handful of locals Britishers.

    Independence Day

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    Saturday september 21, 2024
    Secular holiday : British Honduras became Belize after the independence was granted by the UK in 1981