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
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
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday july 14, 2024
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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
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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
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Rosh Hashanah
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Thursday october 3, 2024
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
Spanishness Day
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Saturday october 12, 2024
Secular holiday : To commemorate the arrival of Columbus in Americas in 1492.
Reporter's Day
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Wednesday october 23, 2024
Special Events : Día de 1815 en el que José Artigas pidió al Cabildo de Montevideo que apoyara la publicación Prospecto Oriental , de Mateo Vidal, calificada por el prócer como herramienta fundamental , oficio en el que tamién reclamaba promover la libertad de prensa en la nación. El 3 de diciembre de 1990 se promulgó la ley 16.154, que oficializó el día de la celebración Wikipedia
All Saints - (beginning)
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Friday october 25, 2024
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General elections
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Sunday october 27, 2024
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All Souls' Day
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Saturday november 2, 2024
Catholic : This is an ancient festivity that has been much transformed through the years,but which was intended in prehispanic Mexico to celebrate children and the dead. This holiday is a time when Mexican families remember their dead and the continuity of life. The original celebration can be traced to the Aztec civilization, in the month of Miccailhuitontli, presided by the Lady of the Dead , goddess Mictecacihuatl and dedicated to children and the dead. This celebration is also observed in other countries in Latin América. Families visit the graves and engage in sprucing up the gravesite, decorating it with flowers, setting out and eating a festive picnic.
All Saints - (end)
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Monday november 4, 2024
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