| Easter holiday (beginning) - Friday April 3, 2020 School holidays : http://www.stmuk.bayern.de/km/rat_auskunft/ferien/
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| RENEXPO - Saturday April 4, 2020 Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days -
http://www.renexpo.de/ in Augsburg 2018 edition confirmed
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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 - Sunday April 12, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 13, 2020 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 20, 2020 School holidays :
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| BMW Munich Tennis Open - Monday April 27, 2020 Sports events : Www.atptennis.com/ 2020 edition confirmed
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| Labor Day/May 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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| IFAT - Monday May 4, 2020 Tradeshows : Lasts 5 days - in Munich Environment, Waste Water and Waste Disposal 2020 edition confirmed
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| Wurzburg Marathon - Sunday May 10, 2020 Sports events : Www.wuerzburg-marathon.de/ 2020 edition confirmed
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| Regensburg Marathon - Friday May 15, 2020 Sports events : Www.regensburg-marathon.de/ 2019 edition confirmed
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| Ascension holiday (beginning) - Wednesday May 20, 2020 School holidays :
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| Ascension - Thursday May 21, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
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| Ascension holiday (end) - Monday May 25, 2020 School holidays :
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| Pentecost holiday (beginning) - Friday May 29, 2020 School holidays :
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| Pentecost - Sunday May 31, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Whit Monday - Monday June 1, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
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| Corpus Christi - Thursday June 11, 2020 Catholic : For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
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| Pentecost holiday (end) - Monday June 15, 2020 School holidays :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday July 24, 2020 School holidays :
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| Bayreuther Festspiele - Saturday July 25, 2020 Culture : Www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/ Opera - Lasts 4 weeks 2020 edition confirmed
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