| Parliament recess (end) - Saturday February 6, 2021 Sports events :
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| Event CANCELLED - Monday February 15, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Optional holiday - Tuesday February 16, 2021 Secular holiday : Carnival
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| Event CANCELLED - Tuesday February 16, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Optional holiday - Wednesday February 17, 2021 Secular holiday : Until 14:00
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| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday February 21, 2021 Special Events : Does not apply to Equatorial regions
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| Bank Holiday (from 13:00) - Thursday April 1, 2021 Banks only :
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| Optional holiday - Friday April 2, 2021 Catholic or protestant :
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| Passover - Saturday April 3, 2021 cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus NOT a public holiday
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| Easter - Sunday April 4, 2021 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Reporter's Day - Wednesday April 7, 2021 Special Events : Celebrado en homenaje al médico y periodista João Batista Líbero Badaró, asesinado en São Paulo el 7 de abril de 1830 durante una marcha de estudiantes que apoyaban los ideales libertarios de la Revolución francesa.2 El mismo día pero de 1908 fue creada por Gustavo de Lacerda la Asociación Brasileña de Prensa Wikipedia
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| Tiradentes Day - Wednesday April 21, 2021 Secular holiday : In tribute to national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, a resistant in the upraise against the Portuguese. Since he was a dentist, he was nicknamed tiradentes ( tooth-puller ). He was executed in 1789. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Labor Day/May Day - Saturday May 1, 2021 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 .
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 9, 2021 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. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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