| Easter - Sunday April 1, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Paid holiday
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 2, 2018 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.
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| Easter holiday (end) - Tuesday April 3, 2018 School holidays :
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| San Remo Auto Rally - Sunday April 15, 2018 Sports events : Www.acisportitalia.it We carry the 2018 confirmed calendar
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| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Friday April 20, 2018 School holidays :
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| Liberation Day - Wednesday April 25, 2018 Secular holiday : Commemmorates the end of World War I on 11th November 1918. The armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Thursday April 26, 2018 School holidays :
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| School holiday - Monday April 30, 2018 School holidays :
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| Labor Day/May Day - Tuesday May 1, 2018 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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