| Påsklov (början) - Torsdag 29 Mars, 2018 Skollovens :
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| Långfredagen - Fredag 30 Mars, 2018 Katolska och protestantiska : Första konciliet i Nicaea (biskopar möte i tidig sortkristendomen) ville hitta en dag att fira korsfästelsen och uppståndelsen av Christ, högtidlighållandet var kopplas till traditionen av de judiska helgdagarna, eftersom den sista måltiden Kristi ansågs vara den judiska påsken. Men den judiska kalendern är baserad på cykler av månen och solen, så högtiden för Herrens Påsk fick samma kalender.
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| Påskdagen - Söndag 1 April, 2018 Katolska och protestantiska : Not a paid holiday
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| Annandag påsk - Måndag 2 April, 2018 Katolska och protestantiska : Datum för påsken fastställdes under året 325. Denna fest beräknas enligt månkalendern.
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| Påsklov (slut) - Måndag 9 April, 2018 Skollovens :
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| Junkanoo Carnival, - Fredag 4 Maj, 2018 kultur : The origin of the word junkanoo is rather obscure. It is believed it is tied to West African origins, as the costumes and conduct of the masqueraders bear similarities with the Yoruba Egungun festivals.
http://bahamasjunkanoocarnival.com/ in Nassau 2018 edition confirmed
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| Mors Dag - Söndag 13 Maj, 2018 Vykort/Blommor : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s 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. Howe’s 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 women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation.
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| Royal wedding - Fredag 18 Maj, 2018 Extraordinära händelser :
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| Annandag pingst - Måndag 21 Maj, 2018 Katolska och protestantiska : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
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| Pingstdagen (slutet) - Tisdag 22 Maj, 2018 Skollovens :
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| Arbetarklassens dag - Fredag 1 Juni, 2018 Sekulär semester :
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| Sommarlov (början) - Onsdag 13 Juni, 2018 Skollovens :
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| Fädernas dag - Söndag 17 Juni, 2018 Vykort/Blommor :
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| Nationaldag - Tisdag 10 Juli, 2018 Sekulär semester : Independence was granted by the UK in 1973
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| Emancipationsdagen - Måndag 6 Augusti, 2018 Sekulär semester : The English settled in the Bahamas during the mid-17th century and brought African slaves with them to work in the cotton fields. Slavery was formally abolished in the British Empire by the Abolition Act of 1833, but it wasn't until 1838 that the slaves in the Bahamas were freed.
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| Sommarlov (slut) - Måndag 20 Augusti, 2018 Skollovens :
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