| Easter - Sunday April 1, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Not a 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) - Monday April 9, 2018 School holidays :
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| Municipal election - Thursday April 12, 2018 Special Events :
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| Public holiday - Thursday April 12, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| Public holiday - Friday April 13, 2018 Secular holiday :
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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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| 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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| Africa Day - Saturday May 25, 2019 Secular holiday : From 2009 When the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was created in May of 1963, the founding delegates proclaimed May 25, 1963 African Liberation Day (ALD), as the successor commemoration day of Africa Freedom Day.
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| Kanilai International Festival - Thursday June 7, 2018 Culture : Lasts 2 weeks 2018 edition not confirmed
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| Shab-e-Qadr (Quran revelation) - Monday June 11, 2018 Muslim, Sufi :
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Friday June 15, 2018 Muslim, Sufi : Eid al-Fitr literally means the Festival of Breaking the Fast .
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Saturday June 16, 2018 Muslim, Sufi : Also called korité
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday June 29, 2018 School holidays :
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| Revolution Day - Sunday July 22, 2018 Secular holiday : Anniversary of the coup that brought President Jammeh to power on the 22nd July 1994 paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday July 27, 2018 School holidays :
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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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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday August 21, 2018 Muslim, Sufi : Also written Id al'Adha (or Eid Al-Adha) is the Feast of the Sacrifice , the second main celebration of Islam.
It takes place on the tenth day of the twelfth -- last month of the Islamic calendar and celebrates Abraham's (also written Ibrahim) willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia.
The Prophet Muhammad called Eid Al-Adha the best day of the year, since it is the last and biggest day of the annual pilgrimage.
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| Summer holiday (end) - Tuesday September 11, 2018 School holidays :
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| El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday September 11, 2018 Banks only :
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| Ashura - Wednesday September 19, 2018 Banks only : Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) during his fight against injustice.
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| Ashura - Thursday September 20, 2018 Muslim, Sufi :
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| Summer holiday (end) - Monday September 24, 2018 School holidays :
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