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 .
Reporter's Day
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Wednesday may 10, 2023
Special Events : En conmemoración de la promulgación de un decreto de 1938, con el que el gobierno de Germán Busch Becerra reivindicaba los derechos de los trabajadores de prensa. Ese día, pero de 1865, era asesinado el periodista Cirilo Barragán Wikipedia
Regional holiday
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Thursday may 25, 2023
Secular holiday : in Chuquisaca
Mother's Day
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Sunday may 28, 2023
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Corpus Cristi
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Thursday june 8, 2023
Catholic : 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.
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.
Aymara New Year
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Wednesday june 21, 2023
Secular holiday : From 2009
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 30, 2023
School holidays :
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday july 17, 2023
School holidays :
La Paz Day (La Paz only)
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Monday july 17, 2023
Secular holiday :
Independence Day
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Sunday august 6, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by Spain in 1825
Independence Day
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Monday august 7, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by Spain in 1825
Regional holiday
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Saturday august 12, 2023
Secular holiday : In tribute to the Chaco people, commemorating the founding of the Gran Chaco Province in Gran Chaco region only
Regional holiday
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Wednesday august 16, 2023
Catholic : Fiesta de la Virgen de Urkupiña Cochabamba only
Flag Day
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Thursday august 17, 2023
Culture :
Regional holiday
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Thursday september 14, 2023
Secular holiday : Independence Manifesto Day -
Celebrates the first struggle for independence on September 15, 1810, under the leadership of don Esteban Arce Cochabamba only
Regional holiday
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Sunday september 24, 2023
Secular holiday : Santa Cruz & Pando
Women's Day (women only)
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Wednesday october 11, 2023
Secular holiday : Not a paid holiday
National Dignity Day
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Tuesday october 17, 2023
Secular holiday : Tribute to the victims of the 2013 massacre from 2021
All Souls' Day
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Thursday november 2, 2023
Secular holiday :
Regional holiday
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Friday november 10, 2023
Tradeshows : Potosí Show in Potosí only
Battle Day
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Saturday november 11, 2023
Culture : The Acre War, known in Brazil as Acrean Revolution ( Revolução Acreana in Portuguese) and in Spanish as La Guerra del Acre ( The War of the Acre ) was a border conflict between Bolivia and the First Brazilian Republic over the Acre Region, which was rich in rubber and gold deposits. The conflict had two phases between 1899 and 1903 and ended with a Brazilian victory (Battle of Bahia) and the subsequent Treaty of Petrópolis, which ceded Acre to Brazil.
Not a paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Regional holiday
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Saturday november 18, 2023
Secular holiday : in Beni