Barbados : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
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Monday May 2, 2022 | Labour Day | Secular holiday | |
Sunday May 8, 2022 | Mothers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Wednesday May 25, 2022 | Ascension holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday May 30, 2022 | Ascension holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday June 3, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday June 6, 2022 | Whit Monday | Catholic or protestant | |
Tuesday June 7, 2022 | Pentecost holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Sunday June 19, 2022 | Fathers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Friday July 15, 2022 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday August 1, 2022 | Kadooment | Secular holiday | |
Tuesday August 2, 2022 | Emancipation Day | Secular holiday | |
Tuesday August 16, 2022 | Banks Hockey International Festival | Events, celebrations... | |
Monday September 19, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Thursday September 22, 2022 | Arbor Day | Events, celebrations... | |
Wednesday November 30, 2022 | Independence Day | National Day | |
Labour Day
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Monday May 2, 2022
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 .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 8, 2022
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers 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. Howes 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 womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 25, 2022
School holidays :
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday May 30, 2022
School holidays :
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 3, 2022
School holidays :
Whit Monday
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Monday June 6, 2022
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.
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday June 7, 2022
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 19, 2022
cards/flowers :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday July 15, 2022
School holidays :
Kadooment
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Monday August 1, 2022
Secular holiday : This non official celebration is preceeded by a month of festivities. http://www.barbados.org/cropover.htm
Emancipation Day
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Tuesday August 2, 2022
Secular holiday : Celebrates the Emancipation of slaves in the British Empire on August 1, 1834.
Banks Hockey International Festival
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Tuesday August 16, 2022
Culture : Http://www.barbadoshockey.org lasts 1 week 2022 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday September 19, 2022
School holidays :
Arbor Day
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Thursday September 22, 2022
Culture :
Independence Day
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Wednesday November 30, 2022
Secular holiday : After the first English settlement at Holetown in 1627, Barbados remained a British colony until achieving independence from Britain on November 30th 1966. That first independence ceremony was accompanied by the raising of the Barbados National Flag, and playing of the National Anthem, for the first time. http://barbados.org/indepen.htm