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Contact edit! 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 .
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday may 6, 2024
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Independence Day
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Monday may 20, 2024
Secular holiday : East Timor was colonised by Portugal in the 16th century, and was known as Portuguese Timor until November 1975, when the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) declared the territory's independence. Nine days later, it was invaded and occupied by Indonesia and was declared Indonesia's 27th province the following year. The Indonesian occupation of East Timor was characterised by a highly violent decades-long conflict between separatist groups (especially FRETILIN) and the Indonesian military.
In 1999, following the United Nations-sponsored act of self-determination, Indonesia relinquished control of the territory. East Timor became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on 20 May 2002 Not a paid holiday when falling on Friday or Saturday
[Wikipedia]
Corpus Christi
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Thursday may 30, 2024
Catholic : 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.
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.
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Monday june 17, 2024
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Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday august 9, 2024
School holidays : One week earlier for higher levels
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday august 19, 2024
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Civil Servants holiday
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Tuesday august 20, 2024
Secular holiday : Falintil day - originally began as the military wing of the political party FRETILIN of East Timor. It was established on 20 August 1975 in response to FRETILINs political conflict with the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT).
The name FALINTIL is an acronym of its full name in Portuguese, Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste. In English this translates as The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East Timor . [Wikipedia]
Constitution Day
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Friday august 30, 2024
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Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday september 27, 2024
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Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday october 7, 2024
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All Saints' Day
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Friday november 1, 2024
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)
All Souls' Day
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Saturday november 2, 2024
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Youth Day
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Tuesday november 12, 2024
Secular holiday : paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Independence Manifesto Day
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Thursday november 28, 2024
Secular holiday : On November 28 1975, FRETILIN declared East Timor an independent state, and Indonesia responded by launching a full-scale military invasion on December 7