| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Tuesday February 13, 2018 School holidays :
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| Valentine's Day - Thursday February 14, 2019 cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Monday February 19, 2018 School holidays :
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| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday March 11, 2018 Special Events :
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| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Thursday March 29, 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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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Monday April 9, 2018 School holidays :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 13, 2018 cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Royal wedding - Friday May 18, 2018 Special Events :
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| Bermuda Day - Friday May 25, 2018 Secular holiday : Initially Queen Victoria's birthday in 1902, then Empire's Day and Commonwealth Day
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 17, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| National Heroes Day - Monday June 18, 2018 Secular holiday : Honors heroes such as Dame Lois Browne Evans who was the first female Opposition leader in the Commonwealth as well as Bermuda's first female barrister and first black women MP.
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Thursday June 28, 2018 School holidays :
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| Emancipation Day (1st day of the cricket match) - Thursday August 2, 2018 Secular holiday : The only country in the world having 2 days dedicated to cricket
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| Somer's Day (2nd day of the cricket match) - Friday August 3, 2018 Secular holiday : Admiral Sir George Somer, Bermudas' father settle in the island in 1609
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