| Pescado de abril - Lunes 1 Abril, 2019 Tarjetas/Flores : As the story goes, in 1564, France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day, instead of the last week of March which was previously observed. In 1582, the Pope followed suit. Those who went on celebrating April 1st were mocked. As the zodiacal sign was the fish, The French placed dead fish on the backs of one another. Traditions vary from country to country.
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| Hora de verano/invierno - Domingo 1 Abril, 2018 Eventos excepcionales :
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| Pascua - Domingo 1 Abril, 2018 Católica o Protestante : Not a paid holiday
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| Lunes de Pascua - Lunes 2 Abril, 2018 Católica o Protestante : En 325, el Concilio de Nicea determina la fecha de Pascua. Se determinó la Luna Llena como el 14o de una lunación. La fecha de Pascua se decidió con la carta dominical y el epacta. Con la convención de un equinoccio fijado ne varietur al 21 de marzo, algoritmos pusieron ser elaborados para dar a la Pascua de cualquier año una fecha a priori diferente de la que se calcularía si se buscara el domingo después de la Luna Llena. Duración incluida entre dos lunas nuevas consecutivas: 29 días 12 h 44 min 2,8 s. La carta dominical indica el calendario del año Edad de la luna el 1 de enero, diminuida de una unidad, llamando 0 su edad la luna nueva.
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| Fiesta de Southland (Southland sólo) - Martes 3 Abril, 2018 Feriado seculare :
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| Vacaciones de Pascua (inicio) - Jueves 12 Abril, 2018 vacaciones escolares :
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| Anzac - Miércoles 25 Abril, 2018 Feriado seculare : ANZAC(Australia and New Zealand Army Corps)Day commemorates those soldiers who died during world wars (from the Boer war to the Vietnam war), and particuarly remembers those who died during the Gallipoli campaign during WW1(Turkey).
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| Vacaciones de Pascua (finalización) - Lunes 30 Abril, 2018 vacaciones escolares :
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| Fiesta de las Madres - Domingo 13 Mayo, 2018 Tarjetas/Flores : 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. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Royal wedding - Viernes 18 Mayo, 2018 Eventos excepcionales :
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