Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday march 22, 2024
School holidays :
Holy Wednesday
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Wednesday march 27, 2024
Banks only :
Maundy Thursday
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Thursday march 28, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Maundy Thursday: Commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper).
Good Friday
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Friday march 29, 2024
Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
Easter holiday (end)
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Tuesday april 2, 2024
School holidays :
Landing of the 33 Patriots
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Monday april 22, 2024
Secular holiday : In 1825. Those Orientals (exiles) were the beginners of the revolution that ended with the Declaration of Independence,in the same year
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
Labour 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 .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 12, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Battle of Las Piedras
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Saturday may 18, 2024
Banks only : Uruguay and Brazil ended war in 1828
Birthday of José Artigas
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Wednesday june 19, 2024
Banks only : In tribute to General José Gervasio Artigas, forefather of Uruguay, born in 1764
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday july 5, 2024
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday july 14, 2024
cards/flowers :
Proclamation of the First Constitution
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Thursday july 18, 2024
Secular holiday : In 1951 a collegiate form of government was set up, after the Parliament' s self destitution.
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday july 22, 2024
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Sunday august 25, 2024
Secular holiday : Granted by Brazil in 1825 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday september 17, 2024
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Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday september 23, 2024
School holidays :