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Congo (Dem. Rep. of the) : 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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| Date | Name | Kind | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday january 1, 2024 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday |  |
| Thursday january 4, 2024 | Independence Martyrs Day | Secular holiday | |
| Monday january 8, 2024 | Christmas holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Tuesday january 16, 2024 | L.D. Kabila Assassination | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday january 17, 2024 | Day of National Heroe, Patrice-Emery Lumumba | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday january 24, 2024 | Peaceful and Democratic Alternation day | Events, celebrations... | |
| Wednesday february 14, 2024 | Valentine's Day | cards/flowers | |
| Friday february 16, 2024 | Mid-term holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Monday march 4, 2024 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Sunday march 24, 2024 | Day of National Heroe, Joseph Kasa-Vubu | Events, celebrations... | |
| Friday april 5, 2024 | Easter holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Saturday april 6, 2024 | National Protestant & Evangelical Churches day | Secular holiday | |
| Monday april 22, 2024 | Easter holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Wednesday may 1, 2024 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
| Friday may 17, 2024 | National liberation Day | Secular holiday | |
New Year's Day
-Monday january 1, 2024
Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Independence Martyrs Day
-Thursday january 4, 2024
Secular holiday :
Christmas holiday (end)
-Monday january 8, 2024
School holidays : Information: Http://eduquepsp.education
official calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
Schooling is mandatory till age 14 - 60% of children do not attend school
Number of instructional days: 222 in primary
schools are open on Saturday
school uniforms required
We carry confirmed dates till Aug 2024 (some variations for intermediary vacations)
Please note that authorities may take last-minute decisions; please double-check if this information is vital to you
Make a Paypal donation of euros 50 to [email protected] to purchase the full calendar for 5 countries, including Congolese schools
Contact [email protected] to purchase a file containing confirmed calendars of 550 countries and regions.
official calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
Schooling is mandatory till age 14 - 60% of children do not attend school
Number of instructional days: 222 in primary
schools are open on Saturday
school uniforms required
We carry confirmed dates till Aug 2024 (some variations for intermediary vacations)
Please note that authorities may take last-minute decisions; please double-check if this information is vital to you
Make a Paypal donation of euros 50 to [email protected] to purchase the full calendar for 5 countries, including Congolese schools
Contact [email protected] to purchase a file containing confirmed calendars of 550 countries and regions.
L.D. Kabila Assassination
-Tuesday january 16, 2024
Secular holiday : The holiday commemorates the assassination of President Laurent Kabila on this day in 2001
Day of National Heroe, Patrice-Emery Lumumba
-Wednesday january 17, 2024
Secular holiday : The day commemorates the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961
Peaceful and Democratic Alternation day
-Wednesday january 24, 2024
Culture : On 24 January 2019, Joseph Kabila, after 18 years in power, ceded power to Felix Tshisekedi after a controversial electoral process.
On the brink of civil war, this peaceful transfer has allowed the DRC to preserve civil peace from 2021
Valentine's Day
-Wednesday february 14, 2024
cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
-Friday february 16, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (end)
-Monday march 4, 2024
School holidays :
Day of National Heroe, Joseph Kasa-Vubu
-Sunday march 24, 2024
Culture : The first President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from 1960 until 1965.
Easter holiday (beginning)
-Friday april 5, 2024
School holidays :
National Protestant & Evangelical Churches day
-Saturday april 6, 2024
Secular holiday : Celebrates the foundation of Kimbanguism, a Christian new religious movement professed by the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by His special envoy Simon Kimbangu
Easter holiday (end)
-Monday april 22, 2024
School holidays :
Labor Day/May Day
-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 .
National liberation Day
-Friday may 17, 2024
Secular holiday : Day of the seizure of power by the AFDL, release of the mobutism
