Cyprus : 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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Sunday May 1, 2022 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday May 2, 2022 | Easter holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Sunday May 8, 2022 | Mothers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Saturday June 11, 2022 | St. Barnabas | School holidays | |
Monday June 13, 2022 | Whit Monday | Orthodox | |
Thursday June 16, 2022 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday June 19, 2022 | Fathers' Day | cards/flowers | |
Monday August 15, 2022 | Assumption | Catholic | |
Friday September 2, 2022 | Pafos Aphrodite Festival | Events, celebrations... | |
Friday September 9, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Saturday October 1, 2022 | Independence Day | National Day | |
Friday October 28, 2022 | Mid-term holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Friday October 28, 2022 | Ochi Day | Secular holiday | |
Sunday October 30, 2022 | Daylight Saving Time | Special Events | |
Thursday November 3, 2022 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Labor Day/May Day
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Sunday May 1, 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 .
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday May 2, 2022
School holidays :
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
St. Barnabas
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Saturday June 11, 2022
School holidays :
Whit Monday
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Monday June 13, 2022
Orthodox : In Cyprus, Kataklysma is the festival of the floods in seaside towns
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Thursday June 16, 2022
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 19, 2022
cards/flowers :
Assumption
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Monday August 15, 2022
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Pafos Aphrodite Festival
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Friday September 2, 2022
Culture : Lasts 2 days
www.pafc.com.cy
Summer holiday (end)
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Friday September 9, 2022
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Saturday October 1, 2022
Secular holiday : Independence for the whole of Cyprus -- before it was divided into Greek and Turkish districts -- was attained on October 1, 1960 after negotiations between the United Kingdom, Greece and Turkey. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday October 28, 2022
School holidays :
Ochi Day
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Friday October 28, 2022
Secular holiday : Obedience refusal to Mussolini in 1940 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday October 30, 2022
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Thursday November 3, 2022
School holidays :