Saint Casimir's day
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Monday march 4, 2024
cards/flowers : Patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday march 27, 2024
School holidays :
Easter
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Sunday march 31, 2024
Catholic : paid holiday
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday march 31, 2024
Special Events : At 1:00 am local times
April Fools Day
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Monday april 1, 2024
cards/flowers : As the story goes, in 1564, France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day, instead of the last week of March which was previously observed. In 1582, the Pope followed suit. Those who went on celebrating April 1st were mocked. As the zodiacal sign was the fish, The French placed dead fish on the backs of one another. Traditions vary from country to country.
Easter Monday
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Monday april 1, 2024
Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.
Easter holiday (end)
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Wednesday april 3, 2024
School holidays :
Provincial election
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Sunday april 7, 2024
Special Events :
Cracovia Marathon
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Sunday april 21, 2024
Sports events : Www.cracoviamaraton.pl/ 2024 edition confirmed
Passover
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Monday april 29, 2024
cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus
Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
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 .
Constitution Day (Swieto Trzeciego Maja)
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Friday may 3, 2024
Secular holiday : May 3rd holiday . refers to the constitution of 1791
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday may 8, 2024
School holidays :
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday may 13, 2024
School holidays :
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday may 17, 2024
School holidays :
Pentecost
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Sunday may 19, 2024
Catholic or protestant : paid holiday
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday may 21, 2024
School holidays :
National Day of the Vlachs
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Thursday may 23, 2024
Culture :
Mothers Day
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Sunday may 26, 2024
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Corpus Cristi
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Thursday may 30, 2024
Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
European elections
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Sunday june 9, 2024
Special Events :
National Day of the Silesian Uprisings
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Thursday june 20, 2024
Culture : In the years 1919-1921, Upper Silesia, which belonged to Germany before World War I, was contested by Germany and Poland. Polish national moods in the region mounted considerably after Poland regained its independence in 1918, and were strongly fought down by its German administration and army.
The conflict led to three Silesian Uprisings between 1919 and 1921. After the Third Silesian Uprising, 29 percent of land and 46 percent of the population of the area was returned to Poland.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 21, 2024
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 23, 2024
cards/flowers :
Rally Poland
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Thursday june 27, 2024
Sports events : Www.rajdpolski.pl/ 2024 edition confirmed
Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy ERA NOWE HORYZONTY
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Thursday july 18, 2024
Culture : Www.nowehoryzonty.pl in Wroclaw 2024 edition confirmed
Tour de Pologne
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Monday august 12, 2024
Sports events : Https://www.tourdepologne.pl/en/ cycling race 2024 edition confirmed
Assumption
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Thursday august 15, 2024
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.
Day of Solidarity
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Saturday august 31, 2024
Culture : In tribute to the Solidarnosc movement.
Holiday for civil servants. Some stores may be closed.
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 2, 2024
School holidays :
National Day of Polish Children of War
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Tuesday september 10, 2024
Culture : In tribute to the Polish children of war, who, despite the trauma they experienced as a result of the hecatomb of World War II, the criminal actions of the German and Soviet occupiers, were able to lift our common homeland from the ashes and as a proof of respect and gratitude for their effort
Warsaw Marathon
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Sunday september 29, 2024
Sports events : Www.warsawmarathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed