Summer holiday (end)
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Monday March 6, 2023
School holidays :
Women's Day (women only)
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Wednesday March 8, 2023
Secular holiday :
Arbor Day
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Tuesday March 21, 2023
Culture :
Day of Mourning
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Tuesday March 28, 2023
Special Events : To commemorate 85 people killed in a shipwreck off the coast
Celebration of the 1947 Uprising
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Wednesday March 29, 2023
Secular holiday : Against French authorities
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday April 7, 2023
School holidays : http://www2c.ac-lille.fr/lftmv/index.htm
Easter
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Sunday April 9, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Paid holiday
Easter Monday
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Monday April 10, 2023
Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Friday April 21, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday April 24, 2023
School holidays : http://www2c.ac-lille.fr/lftmv/index.htm
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 .
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 17, 2023
School holidays :
Ascension
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Thursday May 18, 2023
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.
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday May 22, 2023
School holidays :
International Trade Fair
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Thursday May 25, 2023
Tradeshows : Www.foire-internationale-de-madagascar.com/ in Tananarive 2023 edition NOT confirmed
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday May 26, 2023
School holidays :
Whitsunday
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Sunday May 28, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
Whit Monday
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Monday May 29, 2023
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.
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday May 30, 2023
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
cards/flowers :
End of school year
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Friday June 23, 2023
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Monday June 26, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by the French in 1960
Eid-ul-Adha - Sacrifice Day - Tabaski - Id-el-Kabir (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday June 28, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Feast of the Sacrifice: The second main celebration of Islam. It celebrates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia.
Banks are closed
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Monday August 14, 2023
Banks only :
Assumption
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Tuesday August 15, 2023
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.
Beginning of school year
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Tuesday September 5, 2023
School holidays :
Marathon
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Sunday September 24, 2023
Sports events : in Diego Suarez 2023 edition confirmed