Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday april 8, 2024
School holidays :
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 12, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers 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. Howes 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 womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Bermuda Day
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Friday may 24, 2024
Secular holiday : Initially Queen Victoria's birthday in 1902, then Empire's Day and Commonwealth Day
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
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National Heroes Day
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Monday june 17, 2024
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.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday june 26, 2024
School holidays :
Emancipation Day (1st day of the cricket match)
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Thursday august 1, 2024
Secular holiday : The only country in the world having 2 days dedicated to cricket
Mary Prince Day
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Friday august 2, 2024
Secular holiday : Admiral Sir George Somer, Bermudas' father settle in the island in 1609
Labour Day
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Monday september 2, 2024
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Summer holiday (end)
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Wednesday september 11, 2024
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