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Dominican Republic : 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

  • Currency: Peso (DOP)
  • Internet domain: .do - Telephone code: +1-809, 829 and 849 - International dialing code: 011- GMT offset: -4 (DST: no)
  • Weekend: Saturday & Sunday
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    Friday march 22, 2024Easter holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Thursday march 28, 2024Civil Servants holidaySecular holiday
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    Friday march 29, 2024Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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    Saturday march 30, 2024Regional holidayZoroastrian
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    Monday april 1, 2024Easter Mondaycards/flowers
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    Monday april 1, 2024Easter holiday (end)School holidays
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    Friday april 5, 2024Reporter's DaySpecial Events
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    Sunday april 7, 2024Toussaint Louverture Anniversarycards/flowers
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    Monday april 29, 2024Labour DaySecular holiday
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    Sunday may 19, 2024Parliamentary electionSpecial Events
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    Sunday may 26, 2024Mother's Daycards/flowers
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    Thursday may 30, 2024Corpus CristiCatholic
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    Friday june 28, 2024Summer holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Sunday july 28, 2024Fathers' Daycards/flowers
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    Friday august 16, 2024Restoration DaySecular holiday
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    Wednesday august 28, 2024Summer holiday (end)School holidays
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    Tuesday september 24, 2024Our Lady of MercySecular holiday
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    Easter holiday (beginning)

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    Friday march 22, 2024
    School holidays :

    Civil Servants holiday

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    Thursday march 28, 2024
    Secular holiday :

    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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    Saturday march 30, 2024
    Zoroastrian : Santiago de los Caballeros Day in Santiago de los Caballeros only

    Easter Monday

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    Monday april 1, 2024
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    Easter holiday (end)

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    Monday april 1, 2024
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    Reporter's Day

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    Friday april 5, 2024
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    Toussaint Louverture Anniversary

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    Sunday april 7, 2024
    cards/flowers : A former slave who became a general in the French army of Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture (1743 - 1803)established a new constitution of the Dominican Republic.

    Labour Day

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    Monday april 29, 2024
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    Parliamentary election

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    Sunday may 19, 2024
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    Mother's Day

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    Sunday may 26, 2024
    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.

    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.

    Summer holiday (beginning)

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    Friday june 28, 2024
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    Fathers' Day

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    Sunday july 28, 2024
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    Restoration Day

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    Friday august 16, 2024
    Secular holiday : A military conflict between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, who had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence. Using guerrilla tactics, the blacks, mulattos and ragged whites combatants forced the Spanish forces to abandon the Dominican territory. [Wikipedia]

    Summer holiday (end)

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    Wednesday august 28, 2024
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    Our Lady of Mercy

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    Tuesday september 24, 2024
    Secular holiday : Saint Patron of the Dominican Republic, Mary is also the “Mother of Mercy” because she is the mother of Jesus Christ, who is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of God’s Infinite Mercy. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday