| Laternenfest - Freitag 2 März, 2018 Kultur : Called Chap Go Meh, Yuan Xiao Jie, Yuen Siu or Shangyuan.
First full moon after the Chinese New Year - also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day.
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| Karfreitag - Freitag 30 März, 2018 Katholisch oder protestantisch :
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| Heiliger Samstag - Samstag 31 März, 2018 Katholisch : Paid holiday
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| Ostersonntag - Sonntag 1 April, 2018 Katholisch oder protestantisch : Not a paid holiday
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| Bankschließtag - Montag 2 April, 2018 nur Banken :
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| Tag der Gräber (Ching Ming oder Qingming Festival) - Donnerstag 5 April, 2018 Buddhistisch (Vajrayana) :
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| Tag der Arbeit - Dienstag 1 Mai, 2018 Weltliche Feiertage : Chicago, Samstg, den 1. Mai 1886: 350 000 Arbeiter streiken für einen Acht-Stunden-Tag. Gewerbeindustrien wurden landesweit lahmgelegt. Die Polizei löste die Demonstrationen an jenem Montag auf. Am darauffolgenden Tag streikt Chicago immer noch. Als die Polizei den Protestmarsch auflösen wollte, explodierte eine Bombe. Es kostete zwölf Menschen das Leben, unter denen sieben Polizisten. Acht Anarchisten wurden verurteilt und hingerichtet. Im Jahre 1889 traf sich das Socialist International Movement in Paris und erklärte diesen Tag zum internationalen Tag der Arbeit . Die Soviets, wie auch die Nazis, folgen diesem Beispiel. In Frankreich, unter dem Regime von Vichy (1940-1944), wurde dieses Fest zum Labour Day umbenannt.
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| Muttertag - Sonntag 13 Mai, 2018 Karten/Blumen : 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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| Global Gaming Expo Asia (G2E Asia) - Dienstag 15 Mai, 2018 Messen : Lasts 2 days
http://www.g2easia.com/ 2018 edition confirmed
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| Buddhas Geburtstag - Dienstag 22 Mai, 2018 Buddhistisch (Vajrayana) : Sakyamuni Buddha (Prinz Siddhartha), der Gründer des Buddhismus, wurde geboren am 8. April, 623 v. Chr. im antiken Nord-Indien (heute in Nepal). Es ist ein Urlaub beobachtet von Buddhisten auf der ganzen Welt, auch wenn das genaue Datum kann von Land zu Land unterschiedlich.
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| Vatertag - Sonntag 17 Juni, 2018 Karten/Blumen :
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| Tuen Ng-Festival (Drachenschiffe) - Montag 18 Juni, 2018 Weltliche Feiertage : Zu Ehren des patriotischen Poeten Qu Yuan
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| Sommerferien (Anfang) - Freitag 13 Juli, 2018 Schulferien :
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| Chinesischen Valentinstag - Freitag 17 August, 2018 Karten/Blumen : It was said that the Goddess of Heaven, out of pity, decided to let them unite once on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month as she was touched by their love for each other.
In some versions it is the Emperor of Heaven, the cowherd's father, or the cowherd's mother who has the role of separating the lovers for them to focus on their work instead of romance.
The star Deneb is a fairy who acts as a chaperone when the lovers meet on the magpie bridge. Rather than once a year, there is a version where the lovers were permitted to reunite once a month.
There is a belief that sometime during the night of Qixi, the two stars Altair and Vega will actually unite on the same side of the Milky Way.
Similar stories are told throughout Asia: in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia. In South-east Asia the stories were known as Sudhana Jataka, believed to be one of the stories of the past lives of the Buddha, or the jataka
[Wikipedia]
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| Geist-Festival - Samstag 25 August, 2018 Kultur : Hungry Ghost Festival (ÖÐÔª¹ / ÖÐÔª½Ú) falls in the middle of the Ghost Month, supposed to be a bad time for business. Spirits being in high gear, thet are treated with a sumptuous feast, to please them and to bring luck to the family.
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| Sommerferien (Ende) - Montag 3 September, 2018 Schulferien :
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| Festival der zweiten Herbsthälfte - Dienstag 25 September, 2018 Weltliche Feiertage :
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