Saint Martin : 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
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Thursday July 14, 2022 | Bastille Day | National Day | |
Thursday July 21, 2022 | Schoelcher's Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday August 15, 2022 | Assumption | Catholic | |
Thursday October 27, 2022 | All Saints (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday November 7, 2022 | All Saints (end) | School holidays | |
Friday November 11, 2022 | Discovery Day | Secular holiday | |
Saturday December 17, 2022 | Winter holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday December 25, 2022 | Christmas Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Sunday January 1, 2023 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday | |
Tuesday January 3, 2023 | Christmas holiday (end) | School holidays | |
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
Schoelcher's Day
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Thursday July 21, 2022
Secular holiday : Victor Schlcher (1804 - 1893) abolished slavery in France on April 27, 1848 Not a 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.
All Saints (beginning)
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Thursday October 27, 2022
School holidays :
All Saints (end)
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Monday November 7, 2022
School holidays :
Discovery Day
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Friday November 11, 2022
Secular holiday : St. Maarten/St. Martin was spotted by Christopher Columbus on November 11, 1493, during his second voyage to the New World, and it was named for St. Martin of Tours, on whose feast day it was seen. That date is now used to celebrate the ties between the 16-square-mile Dutch side and the 21-square-mile French side. Not a paid holiday
Winter holiday (beginning)
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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
Christmas holiday (end)
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Tuesday January 3, 2023
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Schooling is mandatory till age 16
School day duration: 8:00 hours
Usually no school on Saturday
School uniform usually required
Dates confirmed till Aug 2023
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