| Easter holiday (beginning) - Friday April 3, 2020 School holidays :
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| Good Friday - Friday April 10, 2020 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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| Holy Saturday - Saturday April 11, 2020 Catholic or protestant : paid holiday
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 13, 2020 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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| Easter holiday (end) - Monday April 13, 2020 School holidays :
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| Anzac Day - Saturday April 25, 2020 Secular holiday : ANZAC(Australia and New Zealand Army Corps)Day commemorates those soldiers who died during world wars (from the Boer war to the Vietnam war), and particuarly remembers those who died during the Gallipoli campaign during WW1(Turkey).
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| Anzac Day - Monday April 27, 2020 Secular holiday : ANZAC(Australia and New Zealand Army Corps)Day commemorates those soldiers who died during world
wars (from the Boer war to the Vietnam war), and particuarly remembers those who died during the Gallipoli campaign during WW1(Turkey).
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| May Day - Monday May 4, 2020 Secular holiday :
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| Queen's Birthday - Monday June 8, 2020 Secular holiday : Australia is a member of the Commonwealth Realms that recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch.
Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was actually born at 2:40 am on April 21, 1926. Except in Queensland and Western Australia
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| Winter holiday (beginning) - Friday June 26, 2020 School holidays :
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| Regional holiday - Friday June 26, 2020 Secular holiday : Borroloola Show Day
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| Regional holiday - Friday July 3, 2020 Secular holiday : Alice Springs Show
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| Regional holiday - Friday July 10, 2020 Secular holiday : Tennant Creek Show
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| Regional holiday - Friday July 17, 2020 Secular holiday : Katherine Show Day
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| Regional holiday - Friday July 24, 2020 Secular holiday : Darwin Show Day
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| Winter holiday (end) - Tuesday July 28, 2020 School holidays :
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