New Caledonia : 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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Weekend: Saturday & Sunday
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Thursday July 14, 2022 | Bastille Day | National Day | |
Monday August 15, 2022 | Assumption | Catholic | |
Tuesday August 16, 2022 | Banks are closed | Banks only | |
Monday August 22, 2022 | Third mid-term (end) | School holidays | |
Saturday September 24, 2022 | Citizenship Day | Secular holiday | |
Friday October 7, 2022 | Spring holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday October 24, 2022 | Spring holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday November 11, 2022 | Liberation Day 1918 | Secular holiday | |
Saturday December 17, 2022 | End of school year | School holidays | |
Sunday December 25, 2022 | Christmas Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Sunday January 1, 2023 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday | |
Bastille Day
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Thursday July 14, 2022
Secular holiday : This is the French symbol of the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the First Republic. The national holiday is a time when all citizens can feel themselves to be members of a republican nation. It is because this national holiday is rooted in the history of the birth of the Republic that it has great significance. On 5 May 1789, the King convened the Estates General to hear their complaints: but the assembly of the Third Estate, representing the citizens of the town, soon broke away and formed the Constituent National Assembly. On 20 June, 1789, the deputies of the Third Estate took the oath of the Jeu de Paume to not separate until the Constitution had been established. The people of Paris rose up and decided to march on the Bastille, a state prison that stood for the absolute despotism of the Ancient Regime. On July 14, 1789, the storming of the Bastille immediately took on a great historical dimension; it was proof that power no longer resided in the King as God's representative, but in the people, in accordance with the theories developed by their philosophers of the eighteenth century. Within two days the Revolution could not be reversed. For all citizens of France, the storming of the Bastille came to symbolize liberty, democracy in the struggle against oppression. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Assumption
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Monday August 15, 2022
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Banks are closed
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Tuesday August 16, 2022
Banks only :
Third mid-term (end)
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Monday August 22, 2022
School holidays :
Citizenship Day
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Saturday September 24, 2022
Secular holiday : Called mwa kaa in local vernacular
Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday October 7, 2022
School holidays :
Spring holiday (end)
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Monday October 24, 2022
School holidays :
Liberation Day 1918
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Friday November 11, 2022
Secular holiday : Commemmorates the end of World War I on 11th November 1918. The armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Paid holiday when falling on Sunday (Labour law 4 Jan 1974)
End of school year
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Saturday December 17, 2022
School holidays :
Christmas Day
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Sunday December 25, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Years Day on Christmas Day.
New Year's Day
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Sunday January 1, 2023
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