Spring holiday (end)
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Monday april 8, 2024
School holidays :
Liberation Day
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Thursday april 25, 2024
Secular holiday : carnations military revolution in 1974 which overthrew the Salazar regime
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 .
Azores Day
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Monday may 20, 2024
Secular holiday : To commemorate the Azorean political autonomy established in the Portuguese constitution, following the Carnation Revolution
Corpus Christi
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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. the actual celebration is moved to the nearest weekend.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Monday june 3, 2024
School holidays : 9.º,11.º e 12.º
National Day
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Monday june 10, 2024
Secular holiday : Commemorates Luis de Camoes, Portugal's greatest poet, who died in 1580. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday june 11, 2024
School holidays : 5.º, 6.º, 7.º, 8.º e 10.º
Sao Joaninas
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Monday june 24, 2024
Culture : Lasts 10 days - in Terceira Island please check dates: http://www.azores.com/azores/terceira.php
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday june 25, 2024
School holidays : 1.º, 2.º, 3.º e 4.º
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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Friday september 13, 2024
School holidays :
Republic Day
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Saturday october 5, 2024
Secular holiday : The establishment of the Portuguese Republic was the result of a coup d'état organised by the Portuguese Republican Party which, on 5 October 1910, deposed the constitutional monarchy and established a republican regime in Portugal. The subjugation of the country to British colonial interests, the royal family's expenses,the power of the Church, the political and social instability, the system of alternating power of the two political parties (Progressive and Regenerador), João Franco's dictatorship, an apparent inability to adapt to modern times all contributed to an unrelenting erosion of the Portuguese monarchy. The proponents of the republic, particularly the Republican Party, found ways to take advantage of the situation. The Republican Party presented itself as the only one that had a programme that was capable of returning to the country its lost status and place Portugal on the way of progress. [Wikipedia]