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 .
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday may 17, 2023
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Ascension
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Thursday may 18, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday may 22, 2023
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Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday may 26, 2023
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Whit Monday
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Monday may 29, 2023
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.
Corpus Christi
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Thursday june 8, 2023
Catholic : 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.
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.
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Monday june 12, 2023
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Stuttgart Mercedes Tennis Cup
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Monday june 12, 2023
Sports events : Www.atptennis.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday july 26, 2023
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Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 11, 2023
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Baden Marathon
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Sunday september 17, 2023
Sports events : Www.badenmarathon.de/ 2023 edition confirmed
National Day
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Tuesday october 3, 2023
Secular holiday : Tag der Einheit (Day of Unity)
MOTEK
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Tuesday october 10, 2023
Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days -
www.motek-messe.com
Trade Fair for Automation in Stuttgart 2023 edition confirmed
Fall holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 27, 2023
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All Saints' Day
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Wednesday november 1, 2023
Catholic : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837.
Fall holiday (end)
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Monday november 6, 2023
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European Outdoor Trade Fair
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Friday november 24, 2023
Tradeshows : Caravans, motorhomes, camping, holiday homes
www.outdoor-show.de/ lasts 2 days - in Friedrichshafen 2023 edition confirmed