Easter Monday
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Monday april 1, 2024
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.
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday april 15, 2024
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Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
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Wednesday april 24, 2024
Culture : Lasts 1 week - www.filmfestival-goeast.de in Wiesbaden 2024 edition confirmed
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 .
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday may 8, 2024
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Ascension
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Thursday may 9, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday may 13, 2024
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Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday may 17, 2024
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Whit Monday
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Monday may 20, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday may 21, 2024
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Corpus Christi
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Thursday may 30, 2024
Catholic : 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.
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.
Eurobike
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Wednesday july 3, 2024
Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days -
https://www.eurobike.com in Frankfurt 2024 edition CONFIRMED
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday july 12, 2024
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Summer holiday (end)
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Monday august 26, 2024
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National Day
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Thursday october 3, 2024
Secular holiday : Tag der Einheit (Day of Unity)
Fall holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 11, 2024
School holidays :
Frankfurter Buchmesse
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Wednesday october 16, 2024
Tradeshows : Www.buchmesse.de lasts 5 days - in Francfort 2024 edition confirmed
Frankfurt Marathon
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Sunday october 27, 2024
Sports events : Www.frankfurt-marathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Fall holiday (end)
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Monday october 28, 2024
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