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Timor-Leste (Democratic Republic of) : 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

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  • Weekend: Saturday & Sunday
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    Friday March 3, 2023Veterans' DaySecular holiday
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    Thursday April 6, 2023Civil Servants holidaySecular holiday
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    Friday April 7, 2023Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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    Friday April 21, 2023Mid-term holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Saturday April 22, 2023End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)Muslim, Sufi
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    Sunday April 23, 2023Solar eclipseSecular holiday
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    Monday May 1, 2023Mid-term holiday (end)School holidays
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    Monday May 1, 2023Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Saturday May 20, 2023Independence DayNational Day
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    Sunday May 21, 2023Parliamentary electionSpecial Events
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    Thursday June 8, 2023Corpus ChristiCatholic
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    Thursday June 29, 2023Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)Muslim, Sufi
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    Friday August 4, 2023Mid-term holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Monday August 14, 2023Mid-term holiday (end)School holidays
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    Sunday August 20, 2023Civil Servants holidaySecular holiday
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    Wednesday August 30, 2023Constitution DaySecular holiday
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    Veterans' Day

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    Friday March 3, 2023
    Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Civil Servants holiday

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    Thursday April 6, 2023
    Secular holiday : Afternoon only

    Good Friday

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    Friday April 7, 2023
    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.

    Mid-term holiday (beginning)

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    Friday April 21, 2023
    School holidays :

    End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)

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    Saturday April 22, 2023
    Muslim, Sufi :

    Solar eclipse

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    Sunday April 23, 2023
    Secular holiday :

    Mid-term holiday (end)

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    Monday May 1, 2023
    School holidays :

    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 .

    Independence Day

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    Saturday May 20, 2023
    Secular holiday : East Timor was colonised by Portugal in the 16th century, and was known as Portuguese Timor until November 1975, when the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) declared the territory's independence. Nine days later, it was invaded and occupied by Indonesia and was declared Indonesia's 27th province the following year. The Indonesian occupation of East Timor was characterised by a highly violent decades-long conflict between separatist groups (especially FRETILIN) and the Indonesian military. In 1999, following the United Nations-sponsored act of self-determination, Indonesia relinquished control of the territory. East Timor became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on 20 May 2002 Not a paid holiday when falling on Friday or Saturday [Wikipedia]

    Parliamentary election

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    Sunday May 21, 2023
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    Corpus Christi

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    Thursday June 8, 2023
    Catholic : 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. 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.

    Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)

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    Thursday June 29, 2023
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    Mid-term holiday (beginning)

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    Friday August 4, 2023
    School holidays : One week earlier for higher levels

    Mid-term holiday (end)

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    Monday August 14, 2023
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    Civil Servants holiday

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    Sunday August 20, 2023
    Secular holiday : Falintil day - originally began as the military wing of the political party FRETILIN of East Timor. It was established on 20 August 1975 in response to FRETILIN’s political conflict with the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT). The name FALINTIL is an acronym of its full name in Portuguese, Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste. In English this translates as The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East Timor . [Wikipedia]

    Constitution Day

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    Wednesday August 30, 2023
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