| Easter holiday (beginning) - Friday March 23, 2018 School holidays :
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| Good Friday - Friday March 30, 2018 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.
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| Easter - Sunday April 1, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 2, 2018 Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.
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| Freiburg Marathon - Sunday April 8, 2018 Sports events : Https://www.mein-freiburgmarathon.de/ 2018 edition confirmed
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| Easter holiday (end) - Monday April 9, 2018 School holidays :
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| Aero - International Trade Fair in General Aviation - Wednesday April 18, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days - http://www.aero-friedrichshafen.com in Friedrichshafen 2018 edition confirmed
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| Labor Day/May Day - Tuesday May 1, 2018 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 .
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| Ascension - Thursday May 10, 2018 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.
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| Pentecost (beginning) - Friday May 18, 2018 School holidays :
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| Pentecost - Sunday May 20, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Whit Monday - Monday May 21, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
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| Pentecost holiday (beginning) - Tuesday May 22, 2018 School holidays :
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| Pentecost (end) - Tuesday May 22, 2018 School holidays :
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| Corpus Christi - Thursday May 31, 2018 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.
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| Pentecost holiday (end) - Monday June 4, 2018 School holidays :
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| Stuttgart Mercedes Tennis Cup - Monday June 11, 2018 Sports events : Http://www.atptennis.com/ 2018 edition confirmed
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| CEP Clean Energy Power - Wednesday June 27, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days - http://www.cep-expo.de in Karlsruhe 2018 edition confirmed
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| Eurobike - Sunday July 8, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days -
http://www.eurobike-exhibition.de in Friedrichshafen 2018 edition confirmed
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| European Outdoor Trade Fair - Saturday July 21, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days -
caravans, motorhomes, camping, holiday homes
http://www.outdoor-show.de/ in Friedrichshafen 2018 edition confirmed
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Thursday July 26, 2018 School holidays :
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| F1 Grand Prix - Sunday July 29, 2018 Sports events : Http://formula1.com/ in Hockenheim 2018 edition confirmed
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| Summer holiday (end) - Monday September 10, 2018 School holidays :
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| Baden Marathon - Sunday September 23, 2018 Sports events : Http://www.badenmarathon.de/ 2018 edition confirmed
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