Labour Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
Secular holiday : From 2011 on, this celebration is called the Day of Slovak Accession to the EU
Liberation of the Republic
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Wednesday may 8, 2024
Secular holiday : Marks the capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies in Berlin on May 8, 1945.
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 12, 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. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
National Day of the Vlachs
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Thursday may 23, 2024
Culture :
European elections
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Saturday june 8, 2024
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
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Day of the Departure of Occupation Troops of the Soviet Army from Czechoslovakia
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Friday june 21, 2024
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Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 28, 2024
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Day of Slovaks Living Abroad
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Friday july 5, 2024
Culture :
St Cyrilus and St Methodius
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Friday july 5, 2024
Orthodox : Cyril and Methodius were two brothers born in Thessaloniki in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century, who became missionaries of Christianity in Khazaria and Great Moravia. They both perfected a Slavonic alphabet which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy into this language. Wikipedia
Independence Day
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Wednesday july 17, 2024
Culture : Day of the Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Republic - Declared on 17th of July 1992
Day of Mining Disaster Victims
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Saturday august 10, 2024
Special Events : Since 2011
Day of Victims of the Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
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Wednesday august 21, 2024
Culture :
Slovak National Uprising Day
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Thursday august 29, 2024
Secular holiday : The Slovak National Uprising was an armed insurrection organized by Slovak anti-Nazi resistance movements during WWII. It was launched in August 1944 from Banská Bystrica. [Wikipedia]
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 2, 2024
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Our Lady of Seven Sorrows
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Sunday september 15, 2024
Secular holiday : Recalls the Sorrows the Virgin Mary endured in compassion for the suffering and death of her Divine Son. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Kosice Marathon
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Sunday october 6, 2024
Sports events : Www.kosicemarathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 18, 2024
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Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday october 27, 2024
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
State holiday
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Monday october 28, 2024
Culture : Before the break-up of Czechoslovakia, October 28 was celebrated as a national holiday. It dropped from the list after the creation of independent Slovakia in 1993, and was not even marked as a memorial day. This changed only in 1999.
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday october 28, 2024
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All Saints' Day
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Friday november 1, 2024
Catholic : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. (World Book Encyclopedia)
Struggle for Liberty and Democracy Day
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Sunday november 17, 2024
Secular holiday : On the morning of November 17th 1989 no one would have ever believed that the events of that day would lead to the collapse of forty years of Communist rule. A quiet and peaceful student march was violently cracked down by police. Some 170 students were injured, triggering a wave of nationwide strikes and protests. Just weeks later, the Communist regime fell. But few people are aware that the student march was held to commemorate events fifty years earlier. On October 28th, 1939, a student demonstration protesting at the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia saw medical student Jan Opletal shot dead. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday