Estoril Tennis Open
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Monday april 1, 2024
Sports events : Www.atptennis.com 2024 edition confirmed
April Fools Day
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Monday april 1, 2024
cards/flowers : As the story goes, in 1564, France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day, instead of the last week of March which was previously observed. In 1582, the Pope followed suit. Those who went on celebrating April 1st were mocked. As the zodiacal sign was the fish, The French placed dead fish on the backs of one another. Traditions vary from country to country.
Spring holiday (end)
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Monday april 8, 2024
School holidays :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday april 10, 2024
cards/flowers : The month of Ramadan is that in which was revealed the Quran; a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present, let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, a number of other days. Allah desires for you ease; He desires not hardship for you; and that you should complete the period, and that you should magnify Allah for having guided you, and that perhaps you may be thankful [Wikipedia]
Liberation Day
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Thursday april 25, 2024
Secular holiday : carnations military revolution in 1974 which overthrew the Salazar regime
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 .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 5, 2024
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.
Vodafone Rally de Portugal
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Thursday may 9, 2024
Sports events : Lasts 3 days - www.rallydeportugal.pt/ arrival in Algarve region 2024 edition confirmed
Local Fair (Ponta Delgada)
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Saturday may 18, 2024
Tradeshows :
Corpus Christi
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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. the actual celebration is moved to the nearest weekend.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday june 4, 2024
School holidays : 9th, 11th & 12 grades
European elections
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Sunday june 9, 2024
Special Events :
National Day
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Monday june 10, 2024
Secular holiday : Commemorates Luis de Camoes, Portugal's greatest poet, who died in 1580. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
St Anthony (Lisbon only)
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Thursday june 13, 2024
Catholic : also in Aljustrel, de Cascais, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Vila Real.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 14, 2024
School holidays : 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 cycles
Regional holiday
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Monday june 24, 2024
Catholic : St John Porto & Braga only
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday june 26, 2024
School holidays : 1st cycle
Regional holiday
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Saturday june 29, 2024
Catholic : Póvoa de Varzim only
FIA Lisboa
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Saturday june 29, 2024
Tradeshows : Http://fialisboa.fil.pt/ lasts 1 week - in Lisbon 2024 edition confirmed
Assumption
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Thursday august 15, 2024
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.
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 9, 2024
School holidays :
Day of Mourning
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Wednesday september 18, 2024
Special Events : In tribute to the late Queen Elisabeth II
Rosh Hashanah
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Thursday october 3, 2024
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
Republic Day
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Saturday october 5, 2024
Secular holiday : The establishment of the Portuguese Republic was the result of a coup d'état organised by the Portuguese Republican Party which, on 5 October 1910, deposed the constitutional monarchy and established a republican regime in Portugal. The subjugation of the country to British colonial interests, the royal family's expenses,the power of the Church, the political and social instability, the system of alternating power of the two political parties (Progressive and Regenerador), João Franco's dictatorship, an apparent inability to adapt to modern times all contributed to an unrelenting erosion of the Portuguese monarchy. The proponents of the republic, particularly the Republican Party, found ways to take advantage of the situation. The Republican Party presented itself as the only one that had a programme that was capable of returning to the country its lost status and place Portugal on the way of progress. [Wikipedia]
Lisbon Marathon
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Sunday october 6, 2024
Sports events : Https://maratonalisboa.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Yom Kippur
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Sunday october 13, 2024
cards/flowers :
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday october 27, 2024
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times