| 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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| Vacaciones de mitad de trimestre (finalización) - Lunes 9 Abril, 2018 vacaciones escolares :
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| Día del Trabajo - Martes 1 Mayo, 2018 Feriado seculare : 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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| 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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| Pentecostés (comienzo) - Viernes 18 Mayo, 2018 vacaciones escolares :
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| Lunes de Pentecostés - Lunes 21 Mayo, 2018 Católica o Protestante : Día de asueto añadido después del séptimo domingo después de Pascua y que celebra la bajada del Espíritu Santo en los apóstoles.
Entre otros fenómenos, les fueron revelados los idiomas.
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| Pentecostés (final) - Martes 22 Mayo, 2018 vacaciones escolares :
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| Día de Anguila - Miércoles 30 Mayo, 2018 Feriado seculare : Conmemora la independencia de la isla, asociada a Saint Kitts Nevis, estado formado en febrero de 1967 por el Parlamento británico. En 30 de mayo de 1967, el pueblo de Anguila comenzó una revolución en la sede de la policía, expulsando a la policía de St Kitts. [ivisitanguilla]
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