Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
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 .
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
National Day of the Vlachs
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Thursday may 23, 2024
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National State Day
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Thursday may 30, 2024
Secular holiday : Statehood proclaimed in 1991
Corpus Cristi
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Thursday may 30, 2024
Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
European elections
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Sunday june 9, 2024
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
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Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 21, 2024
School holidays : Except for the last year of high school
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 21, 2024
School holidays : For graduate students only
Anti-Fascism Day
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Saturday june 22, 2024
Secular holiday : Celebrates the uprising of Croatian partisans against German and Italian in 1941
Dubrovnik Festival
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Thursday july 11, 2024
Culture : Lasts 5 weeks
http://www.dubrovnik-festival.hr/Default.aspx in Dubrovnik 2024 edition confirmed
Croatia Tennis Open
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Monday july 22, 2024
Sports events : lasts one week -- in Umag 2024 edition confirmed
Homeland thanksgiving day
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Monday august 5, 2024
Secular holiday : Liberation from the Serbian forces
On that date in 1995 the Croatian Army took the city of Knin during Operation Storm, which effectively brought an end to Republic of Serbian Krajina proto-state. In 2008, the Croatian Parliament also assigned the name Day of Croatian Defenders (Croatian: Dan hrvatskih branitelja) to the holiday, which honors the current service members and veterans of the Republic of Croatia Armed Forces Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday [wikipedia]
Assumption
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Thursday august 15, 2024
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 2, 2024
School holidays :
International Day of the Bosnian
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Saturday september 28, 2024
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Rosh Hashanah
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Thursday october 3, 2024
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
Split Međunarodni Festival Novog Filma
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Thursday october 3, 2024
Culture : The Split International Festival of New Film
lasts 1 week
www.splitfilmfestival.hr/ 2023 edition CONFIRMED
Marathon
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Sunday october 13, 2024
Sports events : Www.zagreb-marathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Autumn holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 25, 2024
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Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday october 27, 2024
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
All Saints' Day
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Friday november 1, 2024
Catholic : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. (World Book Encyclopedia)
Autumn holiday (end)
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Monday november 4, 2024
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Memorial Day
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Monday november 18, 2024
Secular holiday : Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Homeland War and the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Vukovar and kabrnja