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
Labour Day
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Thursday may 23, 2024
Secular holiday :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
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Day of Mourning
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Sunday june 23, 2024
Special Events : To mourn the loss of Jamaica’s children who have been killed and support those suffering abuse
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday july 5, 2024
School holidays :
Emancipation Day
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Thursday august 1, 2024
Secular holiday :
Independence Day
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Tuesday august 6, 2024
Secular holiday : Granted by the UK in 1962
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 2, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Thursday october 10, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday october 21, 2024
School holidays :
National Heroes Day
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Monday october 21, 2024
Secular holiday : The heroes are Paul Bogle, a Baptist deacon who was executed in 1865 for leading a protest march; George William Gordon, who took part in Bogle's efforts and also was executed; independence advocate Norman Manley; Sir Alexander Bustamante, who advocated for Jamaica's independence and became its first prime minister on its independence in 1962; Marcus Garvey, who preached the unification of people of African heritage; Nanny, an 18th-century escaped female slave with no last name, who led a rebellion against the British; and Samuel Sharpe, who led another rebellion in 1831 that helped lead to the emancipation of black Jamaicans from slavery.