Public holidays in Cuba

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Public holidays in Cuba
Date	English Name	Local Name	Notes
January 1	Triumph of the Revolution	Triunfo de la Revolución	The day of the victory of the Castro's Revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959 – after Fulgencio Batista fled the night before – which established the present government in Cuba.
January 2	Victory of Armed Forces Day	Día de Victoria de las Fuerzas Armadas
date varies	Good Friday	Viernes Santo ^[1]	Made a public holiday in 2012 at the request of Pope Benedict XVI, during his visit to Cuba in that year; confirmed as an annual holiday in 2013
May 1	Labour Day	Día de los trabajadores	International Workers' Day
July 25	Day before the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison	Conmemoración del asalto a Moncada^[2]	Day before the anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks.
July 26	Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison (Official name means "Day of the National Rebellion")	Día de la Rebeldía Nacional^[3]	The date after which the revolutionary movement (M 26-7) was named. In the morning of July 26, 1953, some 160 men under the command of Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada army garrison in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second-largest city. Although this action failed, it is seen as the beginning of the Castro-led insurrection that expelled Fulgencio Batista. There are normally two or three days of public holidays together.
July 27	Day after the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison	Conmemoración del asalto a Moncada^[4]	Day after the anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks.
October 10	Independence Day	Día de la Independencia	This day in 1868, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, "Father of the Homeland", gave freedom to his slaves and started the independence war against the Spanish colonial power, which led to the Ten Years' War
December 25	Christmas	Navidad	From 1969 to 1998, Christmas was a normal working day in Cuba. Official observance of Christmas was reinstated in 1998 after Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba.

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History

Pre-Revolution	Timeline Colonial governors Slavery Ten Years' War Little War Cuban War of Independence Sinking of the USS Maine Spanish–American War Platt Amendment World War I Republic 1932 hurricane World War II Revolution

Post-Revolution	War against the Bandits Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban intervention in Angola Mariel boatlift Special Period Fidel's transfer of power United States–Cuban Thaw

Geography

Cities	Bayamo Camagüey Ciego de Ávila Cienfuegos Guantánamo Havana Holguín Las Tunas Matanzas Pinar del Río Sancti Spíritus Santa Clara Santiago de Cuba

Provinces	Artemisa Camagüey Ciego de Ávila Cienfuegos Ciudad de La Habana Granma Guantánamo Holguín Isla de la Juventud Las Tunas Matanzas Mayabeque Pinar del Río Sancti Spíritus Santiago de Cuba Villa Clara

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Former	Auténtico Cuban National Democratic Union Independent Republican Ortodoxo Popular Socialist Republican (Havana)

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Public holidays in North America

Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States

Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

References

↑ http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2014-04-15/recesan-las-actividades-laborales-el-viernes-18-de-abril Granma.cu
↑ "Fiestas y días festivos en Cuba". VisitarCuba (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 March 2015.
↑ "Fiestas y días festivos en Cuba". VisitarCuba (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 March 2015.
↑ "Fiestas y días festivos en Cuba". VisitarCuba (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 March 2015.

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