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 .
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
Whit Monday
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Monday june 5, 2023
Orthodox : In Cyprus, Kataklysma is the festival of the floods in seaside towns
St. Barnabas
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Sunday june 11, 2023
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 18, 2023
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Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday june 21, 2023
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Assumption
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Tuesday august 15, 2023
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Pafos Aphrodite Festival
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Friday september 1, 2023
Culture : Lasts 2 days
www.pafc.com.cy
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 11, 2023
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Independence Day
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Sunday october 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Independence for the whole of Cyprus -- before it was divided into Greek and Turkish districts -- was attained on October 1, 1960 after negotiations between the United Kingdom, Greece and Turkey. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 27, 2023
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Ochi Day
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Saturday october 28, 2023
Secular holiday : Obedience refusal to Mussolini in 1940 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday october 29, 2023
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Thursday november 2, 2023
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