Armenia : public and bank holidays, closure of banks, stock exchanges, school vacations

Secular holiday : New Year in Armenia (Amanor) is celebrated the whole week starting from December 31. During this week people present gifts and congratulate each other, and their homes are open to welcome everyone. Armenian children write about their wishes in the letters addressed to Dzmer Papik (Santa Clause) and believe that they will come true on the New Year’s Eve. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

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Orthodox : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

Culture : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

School holidays : Http://edu.am/ calendar provided by the Ministry of Education
This calendar applies to grades 1-2
End of holiday in January starts two weeks later for other grades
Number of teaching weeks: 34
Some school are open on Saturday

Dates confirmed till July 2023

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Secular holiday : Celebrates the establishment of independent Republic of Armenia's Armed Forces on 28 January, 1992. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

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Culture : Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Khojaly Massacre in memoriam of the largest massacre of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1992.

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Secular holiday : The idea of an international women's day was first put forward at the turn of the 20th century amid rapid world industrialization and economic expansion that led to protests over working conditions. Women from clothing and textile factories staged one such protest on 8 March 1857 in New York City. The garment workers were protesting what they saw as very poor working conditions and low wages. The protesters were attacked and dispersed by police. These women established their first labor union two years later. Wikipedia

Special Events : At 1:00 am local times

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Secular holiday : In tribute to the Armenians killed by the Turks in 1915 and 1916

Secular holiday : To bring about the non-violent velvet revolution after weeks of rallies and demonstration in 2019 to raise numerous socio-political, legal and political problems demanding an urgent solution.

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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Secular holiday : Marks the capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and other principal Allied nations) in Berlin on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender was signed (in the midnight), it was already May 9 in the USSR and Eastern Europe

Secular holiday : In tribute to the 1918 Declaration of First Armenian Republic Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday