Summer holiday (end)
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Tuesday March 7, 2023
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Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday March 31, 2023
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Maundy Thursday
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Thursday April 6, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Maundy Thursday: Commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper).
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.
Easter holiday (end)
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Tuesday April 11, 2023
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Passover
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Wednesday April 12, 2023
cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus
Landing of the 33 Patriots
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Monday April 17, 2023
Secular holiday : In 1825. Those Orientals (exiles) were the beginners of the revolution that ended with the Declaration of Independence,in the same year
Labour 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 .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 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. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Battle of Las Piedras
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Monday May 22, 2023
Banks only : Uruguay and Brazil ended war in 1828
Birthday of José Artigas
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Monday June 19, 2023
Banks only : In tribute to General José Gervasio Artigas, forefather of Uruguay, born in 1764
Fathers' Day
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Sunday July 9, 2023
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Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday July 14, 2023
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Proclamation of the First Constitution
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Tuesday July 18, 2023
Secular holiday : In 1951 a collegiate form of government was set up, after the Parliament' s self destitution.
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday July 24, 2023
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Independence Day
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Friday August 25, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by Brazil in 1825 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Rosh Hashanah
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Saturday September 16, 2023
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday September 19, 2023
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Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday September 25, 2023
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