Christmas holiday (beginning)
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Friday december 8, 2023
School holidays : in Sucre: Dec 17; in Oruro: Dec 10; in Tarija: Dec 10; in Beni: Dec 6; in Pando: Dec 10; in Potosí: Dec 23; in Santa Cruz: Dec 14.
Christmas Day
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Monday december 25, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Years Day on Christmas Day.
New Year's Day
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Monday january 1, 2024
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
School holidays
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Monday january 1, 2024
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International schools may follow a different calendar
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pupils wear white smocks
PISA ranking (average 493): not listed
Theoretically, courses can be taught in 36 languages
Number of instructional days: 200
Schooling is mandatory till age 15
schools may open on Saturday
We carry confirmed dates till Feb 2024Further dates are projected dates based on previous years
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Epiphany
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Saturday january 6, 2024
cards/flowers :
Christmas holiday (end)
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Tuesday january 16, 2024
School holidays :
Plurinational State Day
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Monday january 22, 2024
Secular holiday :
Fiesta de la Virgen de Candelaria (lake Titicaca)
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Friday february 2, 2024
Culture :
Carnival (during a week from this day on)
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Monday february 12, 2024
Secular holiday :
Carnival (second day)
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
Secular holiday :
Valentine's Day
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
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
Oruro's La Diablada ("Devil's Carnival")
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Saturday february 17, 2024
Culture : Dancing, costumes, parades, drinking for 3 days in Oruro.
Regional holiday
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Thursday february 22, 2024
Secular holiday : in Oruro
Fathers' Day
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Tuesday march 19, 2024
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Day of the Sea
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Saturday march 23, 2024
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.
Public holiday
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Saturday march 23, 2024
Secular holiday : Census day
Good Friday
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Friday march 29, 2024
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.
Regional holiday
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Monday april 1, 2024
Secular holiday : in Potosi
Children's Day
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Friday april 12, 2024
Culture :
Regional holiday
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Monday april 15, 2024
Secular holiday : in Tarija
Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
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 .
Reporter's Day
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Friday may 10, 2024
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
Regional holiday
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Saturday may 25, 2024
Secular holiday : in Chuquisaca
Mother's Day
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Sunday may 26, 2024
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Corpus Cristi
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Thursday may 30, 2024
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.
Aymara New Year
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Friday june 21, 2024
Secular holiday : From 2009
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 28, 2024
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