| 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) - Tisdag 17 April, 2018 Skollovens : http://www.deightongriffith.com/jan0304.htm
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| Nationella hjältedagen - Lördag 28 April, 2018 Sekulär semester : Firar 10 patrioter som har gjort historia i Barbados. Ett uppror ledare, en kvinna som kämpar för jämlikhet, en författare, politisk aktivist, en populistisk ledare, en lärare, en facklig ledare, en idrottsman, Fadern självständighetsförklaringen och grundaren av demokrati. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Firandet äger rum på Hjältarnas torg, där deras porträtt har målats av de bästa Barbados konstnärer
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| Första maj - Tisdag 1 Maj, 2018 Sekulär semester : 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 .
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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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| Pingstdagen (början) - Fredag 18 Maj, 2018 Skollovens :
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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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