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

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cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February

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Secular holiday : in Oruro

Culture : Dancing, costumes, parades, drinking for 3 days in Oruro.

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Culture : Commemorates the loss of the region of Antofagasta to Chile during the Pacific War in the nineteenth century. Antofagasta was the only sea access for Bolivia.

Secular holiday : in Potosi

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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Secular holiday : in Tarija

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 .

Special Events : En conmemoración de la promulgación de un decreto de 1938, con el que el gobierno de Germán Busch Becerra reivindicaba los derechos de los trabajadores de prensa. Ese día, pero de 1865, era asesinado el periodista Cirilo Barragán Wikipedia

Secular holiday : in Chuquisaca

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Catholic : 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. 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.

Secular holiday : From 2009

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Secular holiday : Granted by Spain in 1825

Secular holiday : Granted by Spain in 1825

Secular holiday : In tribute to the Chaco people, commemorating the founding of the Gran Chaco Province in Gran Chaco region only

Catholic : Fiesta de la Virgen de Urkupiña Cochabamba only

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