Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday march 1, 2024
School holidays : One week later in
Banská Bystrica,
Žilina,
Trenčín
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday march 11, 2024
School holidays :
Presidential election
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Saturday march 23, 2024
Special Events :
Struggle for Human Rights Day in Slovakia
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Monday march 25, 2024
Culture :
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday march 27, 2024
School holidays :
Good Friday
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Friday march 29, 2024
Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday march 31, 2024
Special Events : At 1:00 am local times
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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Wednesday april 3, 2024
School holidays :
Presidential election
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Saturday april 6, 2024
Special Events :
Memorial Day
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Saturday april 13, 2024
Culture : Day of victims unjustly prosecuted
Labour Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
Secular holiday : From 2011 on, this celebration is called the Day of Slovak Accession to the EU
Liberation of the Republic
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Wednesday may 8, 2024
Secular holiday : Marks the capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies in Berlin on May 8, 1945.
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
Culture :
European elections
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Saturday june 8, 2024
Special Events :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
cards/flowers :
Day of the Departure of Occupation Troops of the Soviet Army from Czechoslovakia
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Friday june 21, 2024
Culture :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 28, 2024
School holidays :
Day of Slovaks Living Abroad
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Friday july 5, 2024
Culture :
St Cyrilus and St Methodius
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Friday july 5, 2024
Orthodox : Cyril and Methodius were two brothers born in Thessaloniki in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century, who became missionaries of Christianity in Khazaria and Great Moravia. They both perfected a Slavonic alphabet which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy into this language. Wikipedia
Independence Day
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Wednesday july 17, 2024
Culture : Day of the Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Republic - Declared on 17th of July 1992
Day of Mining Disaster Victims
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Saturday august 10, 2024
Special Events : Since 2011
Day of Victims of the Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
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Wednesday august 21, 2024
Culture :
Slovak National Uprising Day
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Thursday august 29, 2024
Secular holiday : The Slovak National Uprising was an armed insurrection organized by Slovak anti-Nazi resistance movements during WWII. It was launched in August 1944 from Banská Bystrica. [Wikipedia]
Constitution Day
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Sunday september 1, 2024
Secular holiday : The Constitution of the Slovak Republic was ratified 1 September 1992, and became effective 1 January 1993). It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements. The civil law system is based on Austro-Hungarian codes. The legal code was modified to comply with the obligations of Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and to expunge the MarxistLeninist legal theory. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
[Wikipedia]
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 2, 2024
School holidays :
Our Lady of Seven Sorrows
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Sunday september 15, 2024
Secular holiday : Recalls the Sorrows the Virgin Mary endured in compassion for the suffering and death of her Divine Son. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday