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March 2010
17 Wednesday	Event: Irish St. Patrick's Day Venue: Details: Celebrations around the world by the Irish wearing green during the day with events of Irish music and dancing plus eating and drinking at the nearest Irish Pub
22 Monday	Event: World Water Day Details: To raise the awareness of water quality for human health and pollution of untreated sewage around the world - www.worldwaterday.org Website
25 Thursday	Event: Cyprus Bank Holiday – Greek Intendancy Day Details: Celebrations of the upraising against the Ottoman Rule in 1821

April 2010
1 Thursday	Event: Cyprus Bank Holiday – EOKA Day Details: A Cypriot Greek guerrilla organisation in the 1950’s who attacked the British under the leadership of Archbishop Makarios to unit Cyprus with Greece.
2 Friday	Event: Cyprus Bank Holiday – Orthodox Good Friday Details: The bright red hard boiled eggs are coloured on Thursday after the Divine Liturgy is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha). Saturday night the Easter bread and red eggs is taken to the church service and blessed by the Priests, first egg is cracked on the church wall and eaten, remainder taken home. The ritual of cracking the eggs takes part before Easter lunch, each family member takes an egg tapping against the other person’s egg, the last egg to be cracked the owner is believed to have a good year.
5 Monday	Event: Cyprus Bank Holiday – Orthodox Easter Monday Details: The traditional Orthodox Pascal (Easter) greeting: Christ is Risen – Answer: Indeed he is Risen
23 Friday	Event: St Georges Day - England Details: There are many events around the country celebrating English historical achievements
23 Friday 23/04/10-28/06	Event: Eastern Mediterranean Yacht Rally Venue: Sailing from Istanbul Turkey Details: 80 yachts will sail for 67 Days visiting 24 ports in 6 countries included Famagusta Cyprus - www.emyr.org Website

May 2010
1 Saturday	Event: Cyprus Public Holiday – Labour or May Day Venue: Events around the island
1 Saturday	Event: Cyprus Public Holiday – Day of the Holy Kataklysma Details: Orthodox festival of the flood in seaside towns
9 Sunday	Event: Cyprus Lions Open Golf Competition Venue: Minthis Hills Golf Club Details: Stableford Competition open to all handicapped golfers For more information go to Lions website www.palc.com.cy Website
24 Monday	Event: Cyprus Public Holiday – Holy Day of Kataklysma Details: Orthodox festival of the flood is seaside towns

June 2010
1 Tuesday 01/06/10-11/07	Event: 2010 FIFA South Africa Football World Cup Details: There are 200 world football teams who have entered for the final 31 places which will be played in South Africa www.fifa.com Website
4 Friday 04/06/10-05/06	Event: Holiness Pope Benedict XVI visits Cyprus Venue: Ayia Kyriaki Church, Kato Paphos Details: The Pope will hold Divine Liturgy Service

July 2010
5 Monday	Event: America Public Holiday – Independence Day Details: Commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on 4th July 1776
15 Thursday 15/07/10-18/07	Event: 2010 British St Andrews Golf Open Championship Venue: Old Course, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland Details: The first open championship was played at this 6,566 long course in 1873 and in 2010 the world best professional golfers with compete for the famous Claret Jug Trophy - www.standrewsopen.com Website

August 2010
15 Sunday	Event: Cyprus Public Holiday – Assumption Day Details: The Catholic Pope Pius XII on 1st November 1950 proclaimed “We pronounce, declare a define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
30 Monday	Event: Summer UK Bank Holiday

October 2010
1 Friday	Event: Cyprus Bank Holiday - Independence Day Details: The whole island became independence on 1st October 1960 from UK, Greece and Turkey – before Cyprus was divided by the Green Line into the Greek and Turkish districts
3 Sunday 03/10/10-14/10	Event: 19th Commonwealth Games Venue: Delhi, India Details: The aim of the games is to promote a friendly sporting event for the people benefits of the Commonwealth countries. www.thecgf.com Website
7 Thursday 07/10/10-08/10	Event: President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visit Cyprus Venue: Nicosia Details: Invitation from the President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias
28 Thursday	Event: Cyprus Bank Holiday - Greek National Day (Ochi Day) Venue: Church Services School Parades in Towns Details: The refusal of obedience to Mussolini in 1940

November 2010
11 Thursday	Event: UK Remembrance Day Venue: 2 Minutes Silence at 11.00am Details: Commemorates the end of the World War One in 1918 when Armistice was signed at Compiegne, Northern France at 5.00am, six hours later the fighting stopped

December 2010
24 Friday	Event: Christmas Eve Details: Cyprus Government offices, business and banks stay open plus shop for the gifts and festive food.
24 Friday	Event: Cyprus Public Holiday – Christmas Day Details: Pope Julius in the 4th Century choice to celebrate on 25th December the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
26 Sunday	Event: Cyprus Public Holiday – St Stephen’s Day (Boxing Day) Details: Remembrance of St Stephen the first Christian martyr

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