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 .
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday may 17, 2023
School holidays :
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.
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday may 22, 2023
School holidays :
Whit Saturday
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Saturday may 27, 2023
Catholic or protestant :
Pentecost
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Sunday may 28, 2023
Catholic or protestant : paid holiday
Mother's Day
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Sunday may 28, 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.
Stockholm Marathon
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Saturday june 3, 2023
Sports events : Www.stockholmmarathon.se 2023 edition confirmed
National Day
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Tuesday june 6, 2023
Secular holiday : Anniversary of the adoption of the constitution of 1809. Jointly celebrated with Sweden's Flag Day which commemorates June 6, 1523, when Gustavus I ascended to the throne.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday june 13, 2023
School holidays : Applies to Stockholm
Midsummer's Eve (banks only)
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Friday june 23, 2023
Banks only : Some banks may remain open in the morning
Midsummer's Day
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Saturday june 24, 2023
Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Båstad Catella Tennis Open
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Monday july 17, 2023
Sports events : Www.atptennis.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday august 21, 2023
School holidays : Applies to Stockholm
Rosh Hashanah
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Saturday september 16, 2023
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
Yom Kippur
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Monday september 25, 2023
cards/flowers :
Autumn holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 27, 2023
School holidays : may vary from school to school
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday october 29, 2023
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
All Hallow's Eve (businesses & banks close earlier)
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Friday november 3, 2023
Banks only : Celebration combining prayers and merriment involving children and families. It is a prelude to All Saint's Day
All Saints' Day
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Saturday november 4, 2023
Protestant : 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. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Stockholm Tennis Open
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Sunday november 5, 2023
Sports events : Http://www.atptennis.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Autumn holiday (end)
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Monday november 6, 2023
School holidays : may vary from school to school
Fathers' Day
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Sunday november 12, 2023
cards/flowers :