Benin : 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 1, 2022 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday May 2, 2022 | Tour du Bénin | Sports events | |
Monday May 2, 2022 | Korité | Muslim, Sufi | |
Wednesday May 25, 2022 | Ascension holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Thursday May 26, 2022 | Ascension | Catholic or protestant | |
Monday May 30, 2022 | Ascension holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday June 3, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday June 6, 2022 | Whit Monday | Catholic or protestant | |
Tuesday June 7, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Saturday June 25, 2022 | Parliament recess (beginning) | Special Events | |
Friday July 1, 2022 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday July 4, 2022 | Parliament recess (beginning) | Special Events | |
Saturday July 9, 2022 | Tabaski | Muslim, Sufi | |
Monday August 1, 2022 | Independence Day | National Day | |
Monday August 15, 2022 | Assumption | Catholic | |
Tuesday September 20, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Saturday October 8, 2022 | Maouloud | Muslim, Sufi | |
Thursday October 27, 2022 | Parliament recess (end) | Special Events | |
Friday October 28, 2022 | All Saints - (beginning) | School holidays | |
Tuesday November 1, 2022 | All Saints' Day | Catholic | |
Monday November 14, 2022 | All Saints - (end) | School holidays | |
Labor Day/May Day
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Sunday May 1, 2022
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 .
Tour du Bénin
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Monday May 2, 2022
Sports events : Bicycle race 2022 edition confirmed
Korité
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Monday May 2, 2022
Muslim, Sufi : End of Ramadan Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 25, 2022
School holidays :
Ascension
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Thursday May 26, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
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 :
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 :
Parliament recess (beginning)
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Saturday June 25, 2022
Special Events :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday July 1, 2022
School holidays :
Parliament recess (beginning)
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Monday July 4, 2022
Special Events : In Porto Novo
Tabaski
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Saturday July 9, 2022
Muslim, Sufi : Feast of the Sacrifice
Independence Day
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Monday August 1, 2022
Secular holiday : Obtained from France on August 1, 1960
Assumption
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Monday August 15, 2022
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Summer holiday (end)
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Tuesday September 20, 2022
School holidays :
Maouloud
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Saturday October 8, 2022
Muslim, Sufi : Prophet's Birthday
Parliament recess (end)
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Thursday October 27, 2022
Special Events : In Porto-Novo
All Saints - (beginning)
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Friday October 28, 2022
School holidays :
All Saints' Day
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Tuesday November 1, 2022
Catholic : 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. (World Book Encyclopedia)
All Saints - (end)
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Monday November 14, 2022
School holidays :