Womens' Day
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Wednesday March 8, 2023
Secular holiday :
Constitution Day
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Wednesday March 15, 2023
Culture : New constitution adopted on March 15, 1994, since been amended in 1996 and 2004.
Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday March 24, 2023
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Spring holiday (end)
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Monday April 3, 2023
School holidays :
Palm Sunday
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Sunday April 9, 2023
Culture :
Passover
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Wednesday April 12, 2023
cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Saturday April 22, 2023
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 [Wikipedia]
All Saints' Day
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Tuesday April 25, 2023
Orthodox : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. banks remain open
Chernobyl nuclear incident anniversary (not a bank holiday)
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Wednesday April 26, 2023
Culture : Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
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 .
Public holiday
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Monday May 8, 2023
Secular holiday :
Victory Day
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Tuesday May 9, 2023
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.
Flag Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
Culture : This holiday is dedicated to the main symbols of the country which embody the ideas of national unity and are the major attributes of sovereignty and independence in Belarus. [www.belarus.by]
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 31, 2023
School holidays :
Kupalle
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Wednesday June 21, 2023
Culture : The most popular celebration in contemporary Belarus. It is a hedonistic summer celebration of fertility in the name of a female God: Kupala
Remembrance Day
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Thursday June 22, 2023
Culture : Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Great Patriotic War
Independence Day
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Monday July 3, 2023
Secular holiday : Belarus celebrate their independence on July 3, commemorating that date in 1944, when as part of the huge Soviet offensive Operation Bagration the Soviet Republic of Belarus was liberated from German occupation. Post-Soviet Belarus gained their independence on August 25, 1991. Belarussians therefore celebrate their independence on the day when the Soviets liberated them, rather than the day on which they received independence from the Soviet Union. [Wikipedia]
International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar
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Thursday July 13, 2023
Culture : Lasts 3 days -
http://www.belarus.by/ in Vitebsk 2015 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (end)
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Friday September 1, 2023
School holidays :
National Unity Day
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Sunday September 17, 2023
Culture : On September 17, 1939, the reunification of the Western and Eastern Belarus began. For nearly 20 years half of the republic, with a population of nearly 4 million people, had been under the jurisdiction of the Polish State. It was the consequence of the Riga Peace Treaty. from 2021
Yom Kippur
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Monday September 25, 2023
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