Spring holiday (beginning)
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Saturday March 18, 2023
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Monday March 20, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by the French in 1956
Start of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday March 23, 2023
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Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday March 26, 2023
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Spring holiday (end)
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Monday April 3, 2023
School holidays :
Martyrs' Day
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Sunday April 9, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the events of 9 April, 1938, when a demonstration against the arrest of a popular leader of the Neo Destour (New Constitution) Party was quashed by the French police force who fired on demonstrators and who killed at least 22 people, and wounded 150 others. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Ramadan holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday April 18, 2023
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning) - French schools
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Friday April 21, 2023
School holidays :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Friday April 21, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Saturday April 22, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Sunday April 23, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Ramadan holiday (end)
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Monday April 24, 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 .
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday May 5, 2023
School holidays :
National day against torture
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Monday May 8, 2023
Culture : To consolidate the protection of freedoms and human rights in Tunisia as a guarantee for completing the democratic process on a solid basis.
Mid-term holiday (end) - French schools
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Monday May 8, 2023
School holidays :
Tour de Tunisie
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Wednesday May 10, 2023
Sports events : Www.les-sports.info bicycle race 2023 edition NOT confirmed
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday May 15, 2023
School holidays :
Mother's Day
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Sunday May 28, 2023
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.
Foire Internationale de Sfax
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Saturday June 17, 2023
Tradeshows : Http://foiredesfax.com/ lasts 2 weeks - in Sfax 2023 edition confirmed
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
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Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday June 28, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday June 29, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Summer holiday (beginning) - French schools
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Friday June 30, 2023
School holidays :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 30, 2023
School holidays :
El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday July 19, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : The event where Muhammad fled Mecca with a small group of followers to go to Medina (Yathrib) in the year 622 A.D., under mounting hostility towards Muhammad. Muslim calendar starts from this date (A.H.), which was established in `Umar's reign. Medina is about 200 miles north of Mecca. Muhammad arrived there on 20th Sep 622 A.D. The name of the city was changed to Medinatu'l-Nabi (city of the Prophet).
Republic Day
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Tuesday July 25, 2023
Secular holiday : Anniversary of the republic founded in 1957
Womens' Day
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Sunday August 13, 2023
Secular holiday : paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Summer holiday (end) - French schools
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Friday September 1, 2023
School holidays :
Summer holiday (end)
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Tuesday September 5, 2023
School holidays :
Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday September 27, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Birthday of the Prophet, Mohammed. For nine days there are Parties with fairs, feasting, and parades. Stories are told about how the mountains danced when Mohammed was born, and sang, There is no god but Allah. The trees answered, And Mohammed is his Prophet.
Then 7,000 angels brought a golden vase filled with heavenly dew, and his mother bathed the new baby in it. Many stories like these are told to Arab children on the Prophet's Birthday, the happiest day in the Moslem year.