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Venezuela : 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

  • Currency: Bolivar (VEB)
  • Internet domain: .ve - Telephone code: +58 - International dialing code: 00 - GMT offset: -4 (DST: no)
  • Weekend: Saturday & Sunday
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    Thursday April 6, 2023Maundy ThursdayCatholic or protestant
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    Friday April 7, 2023Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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    Monday April 10, 2023Easter holiday (end)School holidays
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    Wednesday April 19, 2023Emancipation DaySecular holiday
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    Monday May 1, 2023Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Sunday May 14, 2023Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Monday May 22, 2023Ascension (forwarded to Monday)Banks only
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    Sunday May 28, 2023Arbor Daycards/flowers
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    Thursday June 8, 2023CarnivalEvents, celebrations...
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    Thursday June 8, 2023CarnivalEvents, celebrations...
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    Thursday June 8, 2023Summer holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Monday June 12, 2023Corpus ChristiBanks only
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    Sunday June 18, 2023Fathers' Daycards/flowers
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    Monday June 19, 2023San Antonio DayBanks only
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    Saturday June 24, 2023Battle of CaraboboSecular holiday
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    Tuesday June 27, 2023Reporter's DaySpecial Events
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    Monday July 3, 2023St Peter & St PaulBanks only
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    Wednesday July 5, 2023Independence DayNational Day
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    Monday July 24, 2023Simon Bolivar DaySecular holiday
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    Monday August 14, 2023AssumptionBanks only
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    Monday September 11, 2023Our Lady of CoromotoBanks only
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    Monday September 18, 2023Summer holiday (end)School holidays
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    Maundy Thursday

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    Thursday April 6, 2023
    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 April 7, 2023
    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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    Monday April 10, 2023
    School holidays :

    Emancipation Day

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    Wednesday April 19, 2023
    Secular holiday : On April 19, 1810, the Spanish governor was officially expelled from Venezuela, following Simon Bolivar's revolutionary action.

    Labor Day/May Day

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    Monday May 1, 2023
    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 14, 2023
    cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s 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. Howe’s 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 women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914

    Ascension (forwarded to Monday)

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    Monday May 22, 2023
    Banks only :

    Arbor Day

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    Sunday May 28, 2023
    cards/flowers :

    Carnival

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    Thursday June 8, 2023
    Culture : in El Callao

    Carnival

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    Thursday June 8, 2023
    Culture : in El Callao

    Summer holiday (beginning)

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    Thursday June 8, 2023
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    Corpus Christi

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    Monday June 12, 2023
    Banks only : 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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    Sunday June 18, 2023
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    San Antonio Day

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    Monday June 19, 2023
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    Battle of Carabobo

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    Saturday June 24, 2023
    Secular holiday : Bolivar's victory in 1823 over the Spanish army

    Reporter's Day

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    Tuesday June 27, 2023
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    St Peter & St Paul

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    Monday July 3, 2023
    Banks only : Christian holiday commemorating the date around 258, under the Valerian persecution, when what were believed to be the remains of the two apostles were both moved temporarily to prevent them from falling into the hands of the persecutors.

    Independence Day

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    Wednesday July 5, 2023
    Secular holiday : Even though the actual independence was granted by Spain in 1830, claim for independence was declared in 1811, making Venezuela the first South American nation to declare independence

    Simon Bolivar Day

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    Monday July 24, 2023
    Secular holiday : Born in 1783

    Assumption

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    Monday August 14, 2023
    Banks only : The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is the dogma so far defined by the Church. The definition was made by Pope Pius XII on 1st November 1950. The Pope proclaimed: We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.

    Our Lady of Coromoto

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    Monday September 11, 2023
    Banks only : A celebrated Catholic image of an alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary. In 1942, she was declared the Patroness of Venezuela.

    Summer holiday (end)

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    Monday September 18, 2023
    School holidays :