| Labor Day/May Day - Saturday May 1, 2021 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 .
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 9, 2021 cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s 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. Howe’s 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 women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Reykjavík Arts Festival - Wednesday May 12, 2021 Culture : Https://visitreykjavik.is/reykjavik-arts-festival-1 lasts 3 weeks - in Reykjavík 2020 edition confirmed
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| Ascension - Thursday May 13, 2021 Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
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| Pentecost holiday (beginning) - Friday May 21, 2021 School holidays :
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| Whitsunday - Sunday May 23, 2021 Catholic or protestant : Paid holiday
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| Whit Monday - Monday May 24, 2021 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.
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| Pentecost holiday (end) - Tuesday May 25, 2021 School holidays :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday June 4, 2021 School holidays :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Thursday June 10, 2021 School holidays :
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| Proclamation of the Republic - Thursday June 17, 2021 Secular holiday : Independence from Denmark in 1944 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Verslunarmannahelgi - Saturday July 31, 2021 Culture : Shopkeepers weekend: biggest music festival in Iceland
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| Commerce Day - Monday August 2, 2021 Secular holiday : Shop keepers and office workers are being honoured.
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| Summer holiday (end) - Monday August 23, 2021 School holidays :
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| Reykjavik Marathon - Saturday August 28, 2021 Sports events : Www.marathon.is/ 2020 edition confirmed
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