Orthodox Christmas Day
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Saturday January 7, 2023
Orthodox : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Orthodox Epiphany
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Thursday January 19, 2023
Orthodox : Timket: A Christian holiday (from the Greek word epiphaneia meaning manifestation or to appear) commemorating the presentation of the infant Jesus to the Magi, or three wise men. It marks the end of the twelve days of Christmas and is also called The Adoration of the Magi or The Manifestation of God . According to legend based on a Bible story, three kings (or wise men/magi), Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar saw a bright star on the night that Christ was born. They followed the star to Bethlehem where they found the baby Jesus and presented him with gold, frankincense and myrrh.
International Trade Fair
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Thursday January 19, 2023
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Christmas holiday (end)
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Thursday February 9, 2023
School holidays : Www.moe.gov.et
in the public schools, no mid-term holidays except public holidays during the school year
the French Lycée www.guebre-mariam.org follows the French Zone A calendar
This calendar applies to the International Community school https://www.icsaddis.org/
Schooling is mandatory till age 18
schools close on Saturday
school uniforms required
Teaching languages: Amarigna 32.7%, Oromigna 31.6%, Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna
3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign
language taught in schools)
We carry confirmed dates till July 2023; Further dates are projected dates based on previous years
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Battle of Adowa
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Thursday March 2, 2023
Secular holiday : 1 March 1896, between the forces of General Oreste Baratieri, Italian governor of Eritrea, and Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia.
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday March 10, 2023
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Easter holiday (end)
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Monday March 20, 2023
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Orthodox Good Friday
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Friday April 14, 2023
Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.
Orthodox Easter
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Sunday April 16, 2023
Orthodox : Paid holiday
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Saturday April 22, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Eid al-Fitr literally means the Festival of Breaking the Fast . paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
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 .
Patriots' Day
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Friday May 5, 2023
Secular holiday : Five years of Italian occupation of the capital city Addis Ababa were ended in 1941 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
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
End of the Military Regime
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Sunday May 28, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the end of the communist junta in 1991. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
End of school year (international schools)
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Friday June 9, 2023
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
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Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday June 29, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
End of school year
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Saturday July 29, 2023
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