Poland : 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
Labor Day/May Day
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Sunday May 1, 2022
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 .
Optional holiday
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Monday May 2, 2022
Secular holiday :
Constitution Day (Swieto Trzeciego Maja)
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Tuesday May 3, 2022
Secular holiday : May 3rd holiday . refers to the constitution of 1791
National Day of the Vlachs
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Monday May 23, 2022
Culture :
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 25, 2022
School holidays :
Mothers Day
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Thursday May 26, 2022
cards/flowers :
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday May 30, 2022
School holidays :
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 3, 2022
School holidays :
Pentecost
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Sunday June 5, 2022
Catholic or protestant : paid holiday
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday June 7, 2022
School holidays :
Rally Poland
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Friday June 10, 2022
Sports events : Www.rajdpolski.pl/ 2022 edition confirmed
Corpus Cristi
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Thursday June 16, 2022
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.
Fathers' Day
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Thursday June 23, 2022
cards/flowers :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 24, 2022
School holidays :
Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy ERA NOWE HORYZONTY
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Thursday July 21, 2022
Culture : Www.nowehoryzonty.pl in Wroclaw 2022 edition confirmed
Tour de Pologne
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Saturday July 30, 2022
Sports events : Https://www.tourdepologne.pl/en/ cycling race 2022 edition confirmed
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.
Day of Solidarity
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Wednesday August 31, 2022
Culture : In tribute to the Solidarnosc movement.
Holiday for civil servants. Some stores may be closed.
Summer holiday (end)
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Thursday September 1, 2022
School holidays :
Wroclaw Marathon
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Sunday September 11, 2022
Sports events : Www.wroclawmaraton.pl 2022 edition confirmed
Warsaw Marathon
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Sunday September 25, 2022
Sports events : Www.warsawmarathon.com/ 2022 edition confirmed
Rosh Hashanah
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Monday September 26, 2022
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year NOT a public holiday
Arbor Day
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Monday October 10, 2022
cards/flowers :
Poznan Marathon
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Sunday October 16, 2022
Sports events : Http://www.marathon.poznan.pl/ 2022 edition confirmed
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday October 30, 2022
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
All Saints' Day
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Tuesday November 1, 2022
Catholic : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. (World Book Encyclopedia)
Independence Day
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Friday November 11, 2022
Secular holiday : Independence recovered in 1918 after over a century of being split between Russia, Prussia, Austria Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday