Mid-term holiday (beginning) - French schools
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Saturday February 18, 2023
School holidays :
Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles arrival in Essaouira
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Friday March 3, 2023
Sports events : Www.rallyeaichadesgazelles.com/ lasts 2 weeks - 2023 edition confirmed
Mid-term holiday (end) - French schools
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Monday March 6, 2023
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Saturday March 11, 2023
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday March 20, 2023
School holidays :
Marrakesh Tennis Grand Prix Hassan II
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Monday April 3, 2023
Sports events : Www.gphassan2tennis.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Tour du Maroc
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Friday April 7, 2023
Sports events : Www.les-sports.info/ bicycle race 2023 edition NOT confirmed
Passover
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Wednesday April 12, 2023
cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus
Second mid-term (beginning) - French schools
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Thursday April 20, 2023
School holidays :
Marathon des Sables
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Friday April 21, 2023
Sports events : Https://www.marathondessables.com/fr 2023 edition confirmed
Ramadan holiday (beginning)
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Friday April 21, 2023
School holidays :
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 .
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Sunday April 23, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Ramadan holiday (end)
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Monday April 24, 2023
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Saturday April 29, 2023
School holidays :
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday April 30, 2023
Special Events : From 2008 onwards
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 .
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday May 8, 2023
School holidays :
Second mid-term (end) - French schools
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Monday May 8, 2023
School holidays :
Mother's Day
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Sunday May 28, 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.
Essaouira Gnawa Festival
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Thursday June 15, 2023
Culture : Www.festival-gnaoua.net/ Gnawa (gnaoua) traditional music - lasts 3 days in Essaouira 2023 edition NOT confirmed
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
cards/flowers :
Festival de Fès des Musiques Sacrées
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Friday June 23, 2023
Culture : Lasts 10 days
www.fesfestival.com/ in Fès 2023 edition NOT confirmed
Summer holiday (beginning) - French schools
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Wednesday June 28, 2023
School holidays :
Eid-ul-Adha - Sacrifice Day - Tabaski - Id-el-Kabir (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday June 29, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Friday June 30, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Saturday July 8, 2023
School holidays :
El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday July 19, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Enthronement Day
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Sunday July 30, 2023
Secular holiday : Celebrates the accession to the throne, of King Mohammed VI on July 3O, 1999, who succeeded his father King Hassan II.