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TRINIDAD'S HOLIDAYS. (Page 5)

TRINIDAD'S

2000
Trinidad & Tobago
Calendar

Public Holidays

January

Saturday 01st - New Year's Day
January 08th - Eid-il-Fitr

March

Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th - Carnival 2000
These dates are not Public Holidays but most businesses will be closed.
Thursday 30th - Spiritual Baptist Liberation Shouter Day

April

Friday 21st - Good Friday
Monday 24th - Easter Monday

May

Tuesday 30th - Indian Arrival Day

June

Monday 19th - Labour Day
Thursday 22nd - Corpus Christi

August

Tuesday 01st - Emancipation Day
Thursday 31st - Independence Day

December

Monday 25th - Christmas Day
Tuesday 26th - Boxing Day

Dates yet to be announced:

Divali

Key Dates in History

1498 - Christopher Columbus claims Trinidad for the Spanish Crown.

1592 - The Spanish Colonise Trinidad and retain possession for two centuries.

1797 - British forces capture Trinidad and Tobago in 1802

1814 - Tobago, which has changed hands several times, is ceded to Britian.

1845 - First indentured immigrants from India (the programme lasted till 1917).

1888 - Tobago is linked with Trinidad in a single administrative unit.

1941 - US military bases built in Trinidad.

1958 - Trinidad & Tobago joins the Federation of the West Indies and remains a member until its dissolution four years later.

1962 - Independence from Britian.

1970 - Black Power demonstrations cause brief state of emergency.

1976 - Republic within the Commonwealth.

1980 - The Tobago House of Assembly established.

1981 - Dr. Eric Williams dies after being Head of Government (as Chief Minister and Prime Minister) for 25 years.

This lovely land of ours, boasts an average of

one public holiday every month!!! We have 15 every year,