Labour Day
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Monday may 6, 2024
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Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday may 8, 2024
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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
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday may 13, 2024
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Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday may 17, 2024
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Whit Monday
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Monday may 20, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Tuesday may 21, 2024
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
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Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday july 3, 2024
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Emancipation Day
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Monday august 5, 2024
Secular holiday : Celebrates the Emancipation of slaves in the British Empire on August 1, 1834.
Summer holiday (end)
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Wednesday september 4, 2024
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Independence Day
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Sunday november 3, 2024
Secular holiday : Granted by the UK in 1978 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Community Day
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Monday november 4, 2024
Secular holiday : Introduced in 1979, when Dominica was devastated by a hurricane. All Dominicans were invited to give of their time and efforts voluntarily to some project in their community. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Public holiday
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Tuesday november 5, 2024
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