The business world's No-Go Days!
Switzerland (Neuchâtel) - bank and public holidays of the world - 1970-2070
| Date | Name | Kind | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday May 1, 2022 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday |  |
| Wednesday May 25, 2022 | Ascension holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Thursday May 26, 2022 | Ascension | Catholic or protestant | |
| Monday May 30, 2022 | Ascension holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Friday June 3, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Sunday June 5, 2022 | Pentecost | Catholic or protestant | |
| Tuesday June 7, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Thursday June 16, 2022 | Corpus Cristi | Catholic | |
| Friday July 1, 2022 | Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) | Events, celebrations... | |
| Friday July 1, 2022 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Monday August 1, 2022 | Confederation Day | National Day | |
| Monday August 15, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Monday September 12, 2022 | Fête des Fontaines de Môtiers | Events, celebrations... | |
| Monday September 19, 2022 | Federal Fasting Monday | Secular holiday | |
| Friday September 30, 2022 | Fall holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Monday October 17, 2022 | Fall holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Labor Day/May Day
-Sunday May 1, 2022
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 .
Ascension holiday (beginning)
-Wednesday May 25, 2022
School holidays :
Ascension
-Thursday May 26, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
Ascension holiday (end)
-Monday May 30, 2022
School holidays :
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
-Friday June 3, 2022
School holidays :
Pentecost
-Sunday June 5, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
Pentecost holiday (end)
-Tuesday June 7, 2022
School holidays :
Corpus Cristi
-Thursday June 16, 2022
Catholic : 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.
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF)
-Friday July 1, 2022
Culture : Www.nifff.ch lasts 5 days 2022 edition CONFIRMED
Summer holiday (beginning)
-Friday July 1, 2022
School holidays :
Confederation Day
-Monday August 1, 2022
Secular holiday : Instaured at the end of the XIX century. The date refers to an agreement made at the beginning of August 1291 between Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden. Traditional observance includes bonfires on the the mountains and celebrations in the communities, occasions for patriotic speeches. Modern observance, fostered by the Tourist offices, include fireworks.
Summer holiday (end)
-Monday August 15, 2022
School holidays :
Fête des Fontaines de Môtiers
-Monday September 12, 2022
Culture :
Federal Fasting Monday
-Monday September 19, 2022
Secular holiday : A religious holiday with a ecumenical background instaured in the 19th century. only in Vaud & Neuchâtel
Fall holiday (beginning)
-Friday September 30, 2022
School holidays :
Fall holiday (end)
-Monday October 17, 2022
School holidays :
