| St Joseph's Day - Tuesday March 19, 2019 Catholic : Known as Jum San Ġużepp, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He is the foster-father of Jesus Christ. It has the rank of a solemnity in the Roman Catholic Church. [Wikipedia]
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| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday March 25, 2018 Special Events : At 1:00 am local times
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| Easter holiday (beginning) - Wednesday March 28, 2018 School holidays :
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| Good Friday - Friday March 30, 2018 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.
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| Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien) - Sunday March 31, 2019 Secular holiday : Malta declared independence from the British in September 1964, ending a rule of 164 years (previous to that, France ruled Malta
1798-1800).
Then, Malta became a Republic in 1974.
Jum il-Helsien means Freedom Day and marks the day when all foreign forces left the island. Until that day, the British still used Malta
as a naval and army base.
This was quickly followed by the announcement of neutrality.
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| Easter - Sunday April 1, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Banks are closed - Monday April 2, 2018 Banks only :
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| Easter holiday (end) - Thursday April 5, 2018 School holidays :
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| Labour Day - Wednesday May 1, 2019 Secular holiday : Jum ill-Haddiem
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 13, 2018 cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s 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. Howe’s 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 women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Royal wedding - Friday May 18, 2018 Special Events :
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| Commemoration of the June 7th 1919 uprising - Friday June 7, 2019 Secular holiday : Commemorates events which occured in 1919, when after British authorities raised the price of bread, riots ensued. During the riots, British troops fired into the crowds, killing four: Ġużeppi Bajjada, Manwel Attard, Wenzu Dyer and Karmenu Abela. They are today remembered by a monument to their honour in the square outside the Presidential Palace in Valletta. Also on the same day, the National Assembly was formed, and self-government was demanded Wikipedia
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Friday June 15, 2018 cards/flowers : The month of Ramadan is that in which was revealed the Quran; a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present, let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, a number of other days. Allah desires for you ease; He desires not hardship for you; and that you should complete the period, and that you should magnify Allah for having guided you, and that perhaps you may be thankful NOT a public holiday [Wikipedia]
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 17, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Thursday June 28, 2018 School holidays :
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| International Fair of Malta - Friday June 29, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 2 weeks - in La Valette
http://www.mfcc.com.mt/venue We carry the 2018 confirmed calendar
Contact edit@edit.fr to get the calendar for this event or one file containing confirmed calendars of most international WW tradeshows.
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| St Peter & St Paul - Friday June 29, 2018 Catholic : Or Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul is a liturgical feast in honour of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The celebration is of ancient origin, the date selected being the anniversary either of their death or of the translation of their relics.
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| Assumption - Wednesday August 15, 2018 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.
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| Nativity of Our Lady - Victory in the Second World War - Saturday September 8, 2018 Secular holiday : September 8 recalls some of the most important historic events from the history of the Maltese Islands. The main celebration, apart from the religious feast celebrated in Mellieha, Naxxar, Senglea, and in Xaghra, Gozo, is the commemoration of the victory of the Knights of St John and the Maltese in the Great Siege over the Ottoman Turks in 1565 . In fact, a commemorative ceremony is still held annually in Valletta, by the Great Siege Monument in front of the Courts.
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| Summer holiday (end) - Monday September 17, 2018 School holidays :
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| Independence Day - Friday September 21, 2018 Secular holiday : Granted by the UK in 1964
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| Malta Air Show - Saturday September 22, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts two days
http://www.maltairshow.com updated September 23
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