| Shrove Monday/Green Monday - Monday March 2, 2020 Secular holiday : Green Monday is the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Great Lent. Traditionally it is considered to mark the beginning of the spring season.
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| International Cyprus Marathon - Sunday March 15, 2020 Sports events : Www.cyprusmarathon.com/ 2020 edition confirmed
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| Containment measures (beginning) - Friday March 20, 2020 Secular holiday : Due to Coronavirus epidemics
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| Greek Independence Day - Thursday March 25, 2021 Secular holiday : Upraise against the Ottoman rule in 1821 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday March 29, 2020 Special Events : At 1:00 am local times
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| EOKA Day - Wednesday April 1, 2020 Secular holiday : In the 1950's, Greek Cypriots, under the leadership of Archbishop Makarios, started a campaign for enosis (union with Greece). A Greek Cypriot secret organization called EOKA started guerrilla attacks on the British Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Easter holiday (beginning) - Friday April 10, 2020 School holidays :
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| Orthodox Good Friday - Friday April 17, 2020 Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.
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| Orthodox Holy Saturday - Saturday April 18, 2020 Orthodox : Not a paid holiday
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| Orthodox Easter - Sunday April 19, 2020 Orthodox : Paid holiday
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| Orthodox Easter Monday - Monday April 20, 2020 Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter(or Pascha).The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy.The Easter breads are a worldwide Orthodox tradition as well.This bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place:Midnight Office,Rush Procession,Matins & Divine Liturgy.After the service,the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home.The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days.One egg takes place before the Easter lunch.Each person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of good luck.The traditional Orthodox Paschal greeting is: Christ is Risen! .The answer is: Indeed He is Risen .
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| Easter Tuesday - Tuesday April 21, 2020 Banks only :
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| Easter holiday (end) - Monday April 27, 2020 School holidays :
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| Labor Day/May Day - Friday May 1, 2020 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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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 10, 2020 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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| Ascension - Thursday May 28, 2020 School holidays :
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| Whit Monday - Monday June 8, 2020 Orthodox : In Cyprus, Kataklysma is the festival of the floods in seaside towns
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| St. Barnabas - Thursday June 11, 2020 School holidays :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Thursday June 18, 2020 School holidays :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 21, 2020 cards/flowers :
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