| Beginning of school year - Monday March 5, 2018 School holidays :
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| National day of the Memory by the Truth and Justice - Sunday March 24, 2019 Secular holiday : Commemoration of the 1976 coup that ushered in the last dictatorship of the country. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Maundy Thursday - Thursday March 29, 2018 Secular holiday :
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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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| Malvinas Day - Monday April 2, 2018 Secular holiday : Veterans Day and tribute to the fallen in the Malvinas War Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday Used to be celebrated on June 10 until 2004.
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| Bridge day - Monday April 30, 2018 Secular holiday :
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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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| May Day Revolution - Saturday May 25, 2019 Secular holiday : Anniversary of the 1810 Revolution ( Revolución de Mayo )
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| National Flag Day - Wednesday June 20, 2018 Secular holiday : Commemorates the death of Manuel Belgrano, (1770 - 1820) an Argentine lawyer, politician, and general in the first autonomous government of Argentina who in 1812, created the national flag of Argentina. It was raised for the first time on February 27 of that year, in an island in the Parana River, opposite the city of Rosario. He also led the Jujuy Exodus (Exodo Jujeno), which prepared the ground for victories of the Argentine War of Independence in the northwest of the country. Official day of celebration is June 20.
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| Winter holiday (beginning) - Saturday July 7, 2018 School holidays :
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| Independence Day - Monday July 9, 2018 Secular holiday : Obtained from Spain in 1810 2017 calendar confirmed www.mininterior.gob.ar/
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| Winter holiday (beginning) - Friday July 13, 2018 School holidays :
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| Winter holiday (end) - Monday July 30, 2018 School holidays :
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| General San Martin's Anniversary - Monday August 20, 2018 Secular holiday : The Argentinian General José Francisco de San Martín died in 1850 Paso a la Inmortalidad del General José de San Martín
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| Teacher Day - Tuesday September 11, 2018 School holidays : observed in primary schools only [Wikipedia]
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| Virgen de la Merced - Monday September 24, 2018 Culture : only in Tucumán, Bahía Blanca, Mercedes, Chascomús, and Viedma.
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