| Easter holiday (beginning) - Friday April 3, 2020 School holidays :
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| Banks are closed - Monday April 6, 2020 Banks only :
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| Banks are closed - Tuesday April 7, 2020 Banks only :
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| Holy Wednesday - Wednesday April 8, 2020 Banks only :
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| Maundy Thursday - Thursday April 9, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Maundy Thursday: Commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper).
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| Good Friday - Friday April 10, 2020 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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| Easter holiday (end) - Tuesday April 14, 2020 School holidays :
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| Passover - Wednesday April 15, 2020 cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus NOT a public holiday
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| Landing of the 33 Patriots - Sunday April 19, 2020 Secular holiday : In 1825. Those Orientals (exiles) were the beginners of the revolution that ended with the Declaration of Independence,in the same year
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| Labour Day - Friday May 1, 2020 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 10, 2020 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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| Municipal election - Sunday May 10, 2020 Special Events :
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| Battle of Las Piedras - Monday May 18, 2020 Banks only : Uruguay and Brazil ended war in 1828
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| Birthday of José Artigas - Monday June 22, 2020 Banks only : In tribute to General José Gervasio Artigas, forefather of Uruguay, born in 1764
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| Winter holiday (beginning) - Monday June 29, 2020 School holidays :
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| Winter holiday (end) - Monday July 6, 2020 School holidays :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday July 12, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Proclamation of the First Constitution - Saturday July 18, 2020 Secular holiday : In 1951 a collegiate form of government was set up, after the Parliament' s self destitution.
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