| State elections - Saturday March 3, 2018 Special Events :
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| King Island Show (King Island only) - Tuesday March 6, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| Eight Hour Day - Monday March 12, 2018 Secular holiday : 1856 April 21: Stonemasons working at the University of Melbourne marched to Parliament House to press their claims for an eight hour working day. Agreement with employers for a 48 hour week was reached.
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| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday March 25, 2018 Special Events :
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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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| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Friday March 30, 2018 School holidays :
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| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday April 1, 2018 Special Events : Used to be last Sunday of March until 2007.
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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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| Easter Tuesday - Tuesday April 3, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Monday April 9, 2018 School holidays :
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| Anzac Day - Thursday April 25, 2019 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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| AGFEST - Friday May 4, 2018 Secular holiday : Municipal area of Circular Head
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| Queen's Birthday - Monday June 11, 2018 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 July 6, 2018 School holidays :
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| Winter holiday (end) - Monday July 23, 2018 School holidays :
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| Spring holiday (beginning) - Friday September 28, 2018 School holidays :
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