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Remembrance Days in
Slovakia
are working days.
For
Public holidays
in Slovakia see
National holidays in Slovakia
.
| Date
|
English Name
|
Local Name
|
Remarks
|
| 25 March (1988)
|
Struggle for Human Rights Day
|
De? zapasu za ?udske prava
|
Commemorates
Candle demonstration in Bratislava
|
| 13 April (1950)
|
Unfairly Prosecuted Persons Day
|
De? nespravodlivo stihanych
|
male monasteries were dissolved and friars were interned in
Communist
Czechoslovakia
|
| 4 May (1919)
|
Anniversary of the Decease of
Milan Rastislav ?tefanik
|
Vyro?ie umrtia M. R. ?tefanika
|
the Slovak co-founder of
Czechoslovakia
died in an aeroplane accident under unexplained circumstances
|
| 7 June (1861)
|
Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation
|
Vyro?ie Memoranda naroda slovenskeho
|
|
| 5 July (n/a*)
|
Foreign Slovaks Day
|
De? zahrani?nych Slovakov
|
at the same time the St. Cyril and Methodius Day;
- Probably marks the assassination of
Matu? ?ernak
, a former minister of the WWII Slovak Republic and then leader of the Slovak exile, in Munich in 1955
|
| 17 July (1992)
|
Independence Day
|
Vyro?ie deklaracie o zvrchovanosti SR
|
Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Republic
|
| 4 August (1863)
|
Matica Slovenska
Day
|
De? Matice Slovenskej
|
Matica Slovenska is a main Slovak cultural institution founded in 1863
|
| 9 September (1941)
|
Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of racial violence
|
De? obeti holokaustu a rasoveho nasilia
|
the WWII-Slovak Republic issued the Jews Code, see under
Jozef Tiso
|
| 19 September (1848)
|
Day of the First Public Appearance of the
Slovak National Council
|
De? 1. verejneho vystupenia SNR
|
the Sl. National Council – a kind of predecessor of the present-day Slovak parliament – was created on September 15, 1848 and on 19 September initiated the
Slovak Volunteer Campaigns
of 1848/1849 (see under
?udovit ?tur
)
|
| 6 October (1944)
|
Dukla Pass
Victims Day
|
De? obeti Dukly
|
The passage of this pass at the
Battle of the Dukla Pass
was an important step in the
liberation of Czechoslovakia
during WWII
|
| 27 October (1907)
|
?ernova Tragedy
Day
|
De? ?ernovskej tragedie
|
15 Slovaks killed and 70 injured in a shooting by policemen when protesting for their priest
Andrej Hlinka
in the village of ?ernova; this incident has called the world’s attention the attitude to the minorities in the Hungarian part of
Austria-Hungary
|
| 28 October (1918)
|
Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State
|
De? vzniku samostatneho ?esko-slovenskeho ?tatu
|
see under
Czechoslovakia
|
| 28 October (1815)
|
Birth of
?udovit ?tur
Day
|
De? narodenia ?. ?tura
|
the author of the present-day Slovak language standard
|
| 31 October (1517)
|
Reformation Day
|
De? reformacie
|
Commemorates the day
Martin Luther
nailed
The Ninety-Five Theses
on the door of
All Saints' Church
in
Wittenberg
, sparking the
Protestant Reformation
.
|
| 30 December (1977)
|
Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province
|
De? vyhlasenia Slovenska za samostatnu cirkevnu provinciu
|
Commemorates the declaration of Slovakia as a separate
ecclesiastical province
by
Pope Paul VI
.
|
