| April Fools Day - Thursday April 1, 2021 cards/flowers : As the story goes, in 1564, France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day, instead of the last week of March which was previously observed. In 1582, the Pope followed suit. Those who went on celebrating April 1st were mocked. As the zodiacal sign was the fish, The French placed dead fish on the backs of one another. Traditions vary from country to country.
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| Pascua Florida Day - Friday April 2, 2021 cards/flowers : Anniversary of the discovery of Florida in 1513 by Juan Ponce de León, who was looking for gold and the Fountain of Youth. He probably named the land Pascua Florida because the date was near Easter ( Pascua in Spanish) Florida
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| Mother's Day - Saturday April 4, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Toussaint Louverture Anniversary - Wednesday April 7, 2021 cards/flowers : A former slave who became a general in the French army of Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture (1743 - 1803)established a new constitution of the Dominican Republic.
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| Maundy Thursday - Thursday April 9, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Good Friday - Friday April 10, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Easter - Sunday April 12, 2020 cards/flowers : From 2019 onwards
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 13, 2020 cards/flowers : from 2014 onwards
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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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| Orthodox Holy Saturday - Saturday April 18, 2020 cards/flowers : Great Saturday – ts’iteli parask’evi
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 20, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Tuesday April 21, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Start of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Friday April 24, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Deportation Day - Sunday April 26, 2020 cards/flowers : In the early 1950s, former deportees or their families wanted a national celebration for preserving the memory of the deportation.
The law of 14 April 1954, unanimously passed by the French Parliament has responded to the need to preserve the memory of the deportation by creating the National Day of Remembrance of the victims and heroes of the deportation . Not a public holiday
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| Buddha's Anniversary - Thursday April 30, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Labour Day - Friday May 1, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 3, 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.
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 3, 2020 cards/flowers : Anyák napja
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| Vesak - Buddha Purnima - Visakha Bucha - Thursday May 7, 2020 cards/flowers : Commemorates to Buddhists the birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Gautama Buddha.
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| 1902 Montagne Pelée eruption commemoration - Friday May 8, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| National Day of Prayer - Saturday May 9, 2020 cards/flowers : National Day of Honor for troops who contributed to Afghanistan mission
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 10, 2020 cards/flowers : The mother is given a serenade sung by her family or by a band
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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 10, 2020 cards/flowers : Probably linked with a celebration in England in the 1600s ( Mothering Sunday ). Honored all mothers in England. Mothering Sunday gave poor servants who lived and worked for the wealthy a day off to actually go home and dedicate time to their mothers. Mothering Cake , a special cake, was common for the celebration.
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| Abolition of Slavery - Sunday May 10, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 10, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday May 10, 2020 cards/flowers : Ziua Tatălui
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| Liberation Day - Saturday May 16, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday May 17, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Deportation Day - Monday May 18, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Ascension - Thursday May 21, 2020 cards/flowers : not a public holiday
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| Fathers' Day - Thursday May 21, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Sunday May 24, 2020 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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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 24, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day - Monday May 25, 2020 cards/flowers : Grandson of King Thakombau, the last king of Fiji (until 1874), Mr. Sukuna joined the French Legion during WW1. He was highly honored and even has a monument in Souain-Perthes-les Hurlus (France), as a horseman
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| Mothers Day - Tuesday May 26, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Republic Day - Friday May 29, 2020 cards/flowers : Commemorates the overthrow of the 240-year-old monarchy and its eventual replacement by the Constituent Assembly. Military and civilian parades and traditional dances and cultural performances take place in the capital, Kathmandu. From 2008 onwards.
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| St Fernand (Seville only) - Saturday May 30, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Mother's Day - Saturday May 30, 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.
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 31, 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.
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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 31, 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.
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| Peace Memorial Day - Sunday May 31, 2020 cards/flowers : The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) was finalized at the All Darfur Stakeholders Conference in May 2011, in Doha, Qatar. In accordance with the DDPD, the Government of Sudan appointed a Darfur Regional Authority and a Darfuri as Second Vice President of the Republic of Sudan.
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| Arbor Day - Sunday May 31, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Children's Day - Monday June 1, 2020 cards/flowers : Originated in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925.
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| Liberation Day - Friday June 5, 2020 cards/flowers : Commemorates the resolution which lead to independence on June 29, 1976
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| Fathers' Day - Friday June 5, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 7, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Regional holiday - Wednesday June 10, 2020 cards/flowers : Foz do Iguaçu Day Foz do Iguaçu only
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| Corpus Christi - Thursday June 11, 2020 cards/flowers : Makeshift altars are displayed on the previous day. Spectacular processions on the Corpus Christi day.
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| Valentine's Day - Friday June 12, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 14, 2020 cards/flowers : except in Antwert
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday June 14, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Monday June 15, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 21, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Tuesday June 23, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats) - Thursday June 25, 2020 cards/flowers : The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar, the source of its alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The focus of most celebrations involves eating zongzi (sticky rice treats wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking realgar wine (雄黃酒, xiónghuángjiǔ), and racing dragon boats.
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty. [Wikipedia]
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday June 28, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Armed Forces Day - Wednesday July 1, 2020 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| St Cyrilus and St Methodius - Sunday July 5, 2020 cards/flowers : Cyril and Methodius were two brothers born in Thessaloniki in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century, who became missionaries of Christianity in Khazaria and Great Moravia. They both perfected a Slavonic alphabet which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy into this language.
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| Youth Day - Sunday July 5, 2020 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Arbor Day - Thursday July 9, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday July 12, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Behdeinkhlam - Tuesday July 21, 2020 cards/flowers : Agrarian festival that asks God to chase away plagues and diseases and to bless the people with good health and a bountiful
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| Racial Harmony Day - Tuesday July 21, 2020 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Hadj Season - Tuesday July 21, 2020 cards/flowers : The word Hajj means to intend a journey , which connotes both the outward act of a journey and the inward act of intentions. It is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, and a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their family during their absence. It is one of the five pillars of Islam, alongside Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, and Sawm. The gathering during Hajj is considered the largest annual gathering of people in the world. The state of being physically and financially capable of performing the Hajj is called istita'ah, and a Muslim who fulfills this condition is called a mustati.
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| Regional holiday - Saturday July 25, 2020 cards/flowers : Epistle of Saint James in Girona only
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| Christmas in July - Saturday July 25, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Parents' Day - Sunday July 26, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday July 26, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Sunday July 26, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Earthquake Mourning - Monday July 27, 2020 cards/flowers : Remembrance of the 2010 earthquake
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday July 28, 2020 cards/flowers :
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Friday July 31, 2020 cards/flowers :
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