Holidays

January 1 – New Year’s Day
Good Friday, Easter Monday
May 1 – May Day (Labor Day)
May 8 – Liberation from Naziism Day (end of World War II in Europe)
July 5 – Slavic Missionaries Cyril and Methodius: the arrival of Christianity in Greater Moravia, AD 863
July 6 – Jan Hus Day (Master Jan Hus, or John Huss, a Czech religious reformer and thinker, was burned at stake by the Catholic Church in 1415 in Konstanz, Germany)
September 28 – St. Wenceslas’ Day (Day of Czech Statehood)
October 28 – Independence Day (the founding of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 after the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire)
November 17 – Student Resistance Against Totalitarianism Day
December 24, 25, 26 – Christmas holidays: Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Second Christmas Day.