Índia (Bengala Oriental) : feriados, fechamento de bancos, as férias escolares

Feriado secular : Also known as Thakur Panchanan and Roy Saheb, was a Rajbanshi leader and reformer from Cooch Behar. He established a Kshatriya Sabhā to instill Brahminical values and practices in people of his own caste. [Wikipedia]

Budista-Hinduista : A Hindu festival in honor of Lord Shiva and his marriage to Goddess Parvati. Ceremonies involving prayers and hymns take place mostly at night.

Budista-Hinduista : The religious meaning of this celebration is the burning of any perversion. It marks the victory of good over evil.

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bancos apenas :

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Jainismo : Jain festival honoring Lord Mahavira on the founder's birthday.

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.

Católica : Easter Saturday Christian community only

Budista-Hinduista : Born in 1812 at Safaldanga, Gopalgaunge. He experienced atmadarshan (self-realisation) and preached his ideologies and religious philosophy in twelve commandments. His followers consider him as God (Thakur) Harichand and as an avatar of Vishnu

Jainismo : Mahavir Jayanti Jain community only

Feriado secular : This lawyer and politician drafted the constitution of India.

Feriado secular : Durante o império de Mughal, os impostos eram pagos de acordo com o calendário lunar. Mas as colheitas seguem o calendário solar. Assim o imperador Abkar (1542 - 1605) combinou ambos os calendários.

Muçulmana : Ends the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. There were 30 days of strict fasting from sunup to sundown in honor of the first revelation to the Prophet Mohammed. In India, except in Arunachal Pradesh.

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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Feriado secular : Also written Rabīndranātha Thākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [Wikipedia]

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Muçulmana : The first day of the year is observed on the first day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar. The first Islamic year beginning in 610 AD during which the emigration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra

Feriado secular : Commemorates the day in 1947 when India achieved freedom from British rule

Budista-Hinduista : The annual festival of Raksha Bandhan, which is meant to commemorate the abiding ties between siblings of opposite sex, usually takes place in late August, and is marked by a very simple ceremony in which a woman ties a rakhi — which may be a colorful thread, a simple bracelet, or a decorative string — around the wrist of her brother(s). The word raksha signifies protection, and bandhan is an association signifying an enduring sort of bond; and so, when a woman ties a rakhi around the waist of her brother, she signifies her loving attachment to him. He, likewise, recognizes the special bonds between them, and by extending his wrist forward, he in fact extends the hand of his protection over her.