| Férias escolares (início) - Sexta-feira
13 Março, 2020 Férias escolares : Due to Coronavirus epidemics
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| Férias escolares (fim) - Domingo
29 Março, 2020 Férias escolares : Due to Coronavirus epidemics
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| Feriado Bancário (a partir das 13 - Quinta-feira
9 Abril, 2020 bancos apenas :
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| Sexta-feira Santa - Sexta-feira
10 Abril, 2020 Católica ou Protestante : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
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| Páscoa - Domingo
12 Abril, 2020 Católica ou Protestante : Not a paid holiday
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| Tiradentes - Terça-feira
21 Abril, 2020 Feriado secular : In tribute to national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, a resistant in the upraise against the Portuguese. Since he was a dentist, he was nicknamed tiradentes ( tooth-puller ). He was executed in 1789. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Dia do Trabalhador - Sexta-feira
1 Maio, 2020 Feriado secular : Chicago, sábado 1 de maio de 1886: 350.000 trabalhadores estão em greve. Elas querem uma 8 horas de trabalho diário. Todas as indústrias estão paralisados nacional. Na segunda-feira, a polícia abriu fogo. Na terça-feira, Chicago está novamente em greve. Na sequência de uma bomba lançada contra eles, a polícia abriu fogo. 12 mortos, dos quais 7 polícias. 8 anarquistas serão condenados e executados. Em 1889, o Movimento Internacional Socialista reuniu em Paris e declarou este dia internacional trabalhadores dia . Os soviéticos tomaram a mesma decisão, assim como os nazistas. Na França, ao abrigo do regime Vichy (1940-1944), a festa foi renomeado Dia do Trabalho .
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| Festa das Mães - Domingo
10 Maio, 2020 Cartões/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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| Feriado facultativo - Quinta-feira
11 Junho, 2020 Católica : Corpus Cristi
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