Labor Day
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Friday may 3, 2024
Secular holiday :
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
Battle of Pichincha Celebration
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Friday may 24, 2024
Secular holiday : Celebrates the Spanish defeat in 1822
End of school year (Sierra & Amazonia)
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Friday june 7, 2024
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
cards/flowers :
Regional holiday
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Friday july 26, 2024
Secular holiday : Foundation Day - The foundation of Guayaquil was a process of the Spanish conquest in the coastal region of Ecuador. After several transfers and conflicts with native inhabitants of pre-Columbian cultures, the city of Santiago de Guayaquil was finally founded. The conquest took place between 1534 and 1547. in Guayaquil only
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday august 7, 2024
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Friday august 9, 2024
Secular holiday : Celebrates the first uprising against Spanish rule in 1809
Independence Day
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Saturday august 10, 2024
Secular holiday : Celebrates the first uprising against Spanish rule in 1809
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday august 12, 2024
School holidays :
Beginning of school year (Sierra & Amazonia)
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Monday september 2, 2024
School holidays : Applies to Quito
Guyaquil Independence Day
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Friday october 11, 2024
Secular holiday : Celebrated in the whole country
Mid-term holiday (beginning) (coastal regions)
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Wednesday october 30, 2024
School holidays : Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Ríos, Manabí, El Oro, Santa Elena.