What is the history of Dia de San Anton?
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It is a day celebrated in Madrid to give patronage to animals.  It is called the day of San Anton because he is the patron saint of animals. It is a celebration, and mass held annually on January 17th at the church on Hortaleza street in the city of Madrid.  Mostly people take their pets there to receive blessings. Check out the website I posted, if you dont understand Spanish there is a translatable option, however it does not translate exactly into english making it quite confusing to read.  Good Luck
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The website below is the official site of the group. If you click on the initial page, a pop-up will open. This pop-up has a link for "Tour" on the bottom of the page. Click that to get their tour schedule. I'm not sure you can find past April events here, but you can definitely find future April events.\n\nNote that this page is in Spanish.
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look at this page\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandanistas
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day#History_of_Valentine.27s_Day
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Cinco de Mayo is widely celebrated by Mexican-Americans and their descendants in the United States. Many cities with significant Mexican and Chicano populations throughout the US schedule special events on the 5th of May. In Los Angeles, most notably, revelers fill the streets in front of City Hall for speeches and performances by Mexican entertainers on this day.\n\nAlthough the celebration of this holiday has historically been limited to Latin-American communities, particularly in the southwest, it has become increasingly popular across the country and among all ethnic groups in the last 10 years. In recent years, it has been celebrated widely and in a similar style as St. Patrick’s Day — namely a celebration and identification with Mexicans, their culture, food, and music by Anglos and other unrelated ethnic groups. However, many Americans have only a cursory understanding of the significance of this day; it is often mistakenly assumed to be Mexico’s independence day, and in practice, it is usually celebrated on a superficial level.\n\nHope this helps.
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The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, with some recognition in other parts of the Mexico, and especially in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, Mexico's Independence Day, which is actually September 16.
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Do you mean cinco de mayo?  It's when the Mexican army defeated the French at la Batalla de Puebla in 1862.
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1. Carnaval is a pre-Lent celebration. Lent is a period of fasting in the Christian tradition, and some foodstuffs are given up for the 40-day period. What those foods were, varied from country to country. In England it was eggs and flour, which is (a) why pancakes are made on Shrove Tuesday (to use up stocks of those foods), (b) why there are lots of Lent traditions that involve using eggs for other purposes (egg-painting, egg-rolling contests, egg-and-spoon races), and (c) why the Easter Egg tradition began (at Easter eggs could be eaten again). In other parts of the Christian world the fast involved other types of food. The word carnival has Latin roots, and derives from "carne levare" (removing of flesh = giving up meat). The carnival in New Orleans is called Mardi Gras, which comes from the French for Fat Tuesday (extra-consumption of foods on Shrove Tuesday, the day before the start of Lent).\n\n2. Cuba is just one of many countries that has a Carnival celebration, and New Orleans has already been mentioned. More well-known Carnivals include those at Rio de Janeiro (but there are also big ones in the Brazilian cities of Recife and Salvador de Bahia), and Trinidad (but most English-, French- and Dutch-speaking islands celebrate too). You will also find Carnival in the mainland countries surrounding the Caribbean basin.\n\n3. Most carnivals include parades, costumes, dancing, lively local music, food, drink, revelry, and often libertine behaviour. In the Caribbean/Latin American region Africans adapted the subdued European-style celebration, and introduced their own customs, and made it what it is today. In many cases, slaves used the costumed carnival parade as a means of surreptitiously mocking their white masters, this was especially so in Trinidad, where Carnival was banned for many years. So it has both Catholic and African animist roots.\n\n4. In Cuba, Carnival used to take place on July 26, St. Ann's Day, to commemorate that date in 1953 when Fidel Castro and his revolutionary troops attacked the Moncada barracks. You can still find websites that state this. However Granma Internacional, the official voice of the Cuban Government states clearly it takes place in February and March (just as with other countries, having varying dates each year, because Easter is a "moveable feast"). \nhttp://www.granma.cu/INGLES/2005/febrero/vier25/10carnavales.html\nhttp://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/history.htm\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/media_461565274/Carnival_Music_of_Cuba.html
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Monleón is one of the oldest towns and greater historical resonance of Salamanca.\n   In Castilian Annals is mentioned Leocaput, place where after the famous battle of the Pit of Simancas, the overcome army of Abderramán III had in its retirement a last encounter with the allied forces of Ramiro II the 21 of August of 939, being left the Cordovans totally dispersed.\n\n~ Definitively had to be conquered Monleón by the followers of Alfonso I SAW, before the 1077, because in that east year Castilian monarch gained the strength of Coria.
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Here are some sites that can help you:\n\nhttp://www.dayofthedead.com/\nhttp://www.nacnet.org/assunta/dead.htm\nhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Mexico/Society_and_Culture/Holidays_and_Observances/Day_of_the_Dead__Dia_de_los_Muertos_/
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Unlike most of the other nonfoolish holidays, the history of April Fool's Day, sometimes called All Fool's Day, is not totally clear. There really wasn't a "first April Fool's Day" that can be pinpointed on the calendar. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring. \n\nThe closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France. Prior to that year, the new year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25. The celebration culminated on April 1. With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved to January 1. \n\nHowever, communications being what they were in the days when news traveled by foot, many people did not receive the news for several years. Others, the more obstinate crowd, refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the new year on April 1. These backward folk were labeled as "fools" by the general populace. They were subject to some ridicule, and were often sent on "fools errands" or were made the butt of other practical jokes. \n\nThis harassment evolved, over time, into a tradition of prank-playing on the first day of April. The tradition eventually spread to England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. It was later introduced to the American colonies of both the English and French. April Fool's Day thus developed into an international fun fest, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at the expense of their friends and families. \n\nIn Scotland, for example, April Fool's Day is actually celebrated for two days. The second day is devoted to pranks involving the posterior region of the body. It is called Taily Day. The origin of the "kick me" sign can be traced to this observance. \n\nMexico's counterpart of April Fool's Day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. It eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery. \n\nPranks performed on April Fool's Day range from the simple, (such as saying, "Your shoe's untied!), to the elaborate. Setting a roommate's alarm clock back an hour is a common gag. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, "April Fool!" \n\nPractical jokes are a common practice on April Fool's Day. Sometimes, elaborate practical jokes are played on friends or relatives that last the entire day. The news media even gets involved. For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool's Day was a fairly detailed documentary about "spaghetti farmers" and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees. \n\nApril Fool's Day is a "for-fun-only" observance. Nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their "significant other" out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It's simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant, for he may be the next April Fool!
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search for that day on wikipedia
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The association of the middle of February with love and fertility dates to ancient times. In the calendar of Ancient Athens, the period between mid January and mid February was the month of Gamelion, which was dedicated to the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera.\n\nIn Ancient Rome, the day of February 15 was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus, the god of fertility, who was represented by two half-naked young men, dressed in goat skins. As part of the purification ritual, the priests of Lupercus would sacrifice goats to the god, and after drinking wine, they chose two young men to run through the streets of Rome holding pieces of the goat skin above their heads, striking anyone they met with the goat hide. Young women especially would come forth voluntarily for the occasion, in the belief that being so touched would render them fruitful and bring easy childbirth.\n\nAccording to the Catholic Encyclopedia (1908), at least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs and all quite obscure, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date of February 14:\n\na priest in Rome who suffered martyrdom in the second half of the 3rd century and was buried on the Via Flaminia. \na bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) also suffered martyrdom in the second half of the 3rd century and was also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than the priest. \na martyr in North Africa, about whom little else is known. \nThe connection between St. Valentine and romantic love is not mentioned in any early histories and is regarded by secular historians as purely a matter of legend (see below). The feast of St. Valentine was first declared to be on February 14 by Pope Gelasius I in 496. There is a widespread legend that he created the day to counter the practice held on Lupercalia of young men and women pairing off as lovers by drawing their names out of an urn, but this practice is not attested in any sources from that era.\n\nIn the 19th century, relics of St. Valentine were donated by Pope Gregory XVI to the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland, which has become a popular place of pilgrimage on February 14.\n\nIn 1969, as part of a larger effort to pare down the number of saint days of purely legendary origin, the Church removed St. Valentine's Day as an official holiday from its calendar.\n\n[edit]\nValentine\nThe influential Gnostic teacher Valentinius was a candidate for Bishop of Rome in 143. In his teachings, the marriage bed assumed a central place in his version of Christian love, an emphasis sharply in contrast with the asceticism of mainstream Christianity. Stephan A. Hoeller assesses Valentinius on the subject: "In addition to baptism, anointing, eucharist, the initiation of priests and the rites of the dying, the Valentinian Gnosis mentions prominently two great and mysterious sacraments called 'redemption' (apolytrosis) and 'bridal chamber' respectively." [1].
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I think you'll get it at " www.ssc.edu.ph/centennial website/calendar_events.html" .Hope it was useful.
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The origin of this custom has been much disputed, and many theories have been suggested, e.g. that it is a farcical commemoration of Christ being sent from Annas to Caiaphas, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate, the crucifixion having taken place about the 1st of April.\n\nWhat seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox, which, beginning on old New Year's day, the 25th of March, ended on the 1st of April. This view gains support from the fact that the exact counterpart of April-fooling is found to have been an immemorial custom in India. The festival of the spring equinox is there termed the feast of Holi, the last day of which is the 31st of March, upon which the chief amusement is the befooling of people by sending them on fruitless errands.\n\nIt has been plausibly suggested that Europe derived its April-fooling from the French [1]. They were the first nation to adopt the reformed Gregorian calendar, Charles IX in 1564 decreeing that the year should begin with the 1st of January. Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair butts for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of April.\n\nHowever, it is unlikely that this explanation of April Fool's Day’s origin is correct. Well before 1582 when King Charles IX of France brought in the new Gregorian calendar, French and Dutch references from respectively 1508 and 1539 describe April Fool's Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April.\n\nThough the 1st of April appears to have been anciently observed in Great Britain as a general festival, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gowk," i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were "April-gowks," the cuckoo being there, as it is in most lands, a term of contempt. In France the person befooled is known as poisson d'avril. This has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. A far more natural explanation would seem to be that the April fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught.\n\nThe Dutch history book-version is this: In 1572 The Netherlands were still ruled by the Spanish king Phillip II, son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Because the Dutch did not comply with this, they fought back. There was this band of roaming so-called freedom fighters, what we'd now call terrorists, calling themselves Geuzen, after the french geux which means beggars. They were sailing around the Northsea looking for Spanish ships to sink and after a while they got tired and needed some rest, but having no Dutch port to land in, they figured they'd capture one. So on April 1, 1572, they took this little coastal town called Den Briel. This event was also the start of the general civil rising against the Spanish in other cities in The Netherlands. This general phillip had send up called Alva was very upset and all but he couldn't do much. Bril is the Dutch word for glasses, so on April 1, 1572, Alva lost his glasses. Dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still commemorate April the first.
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Saint Valentine's Day falls on February 14. It is the traditional day on which lovers let each other know about their love by sending Valentine's cards, which are often anonymous. The holiday is named after two men named Valentine, both Christain martyrs. The day became associated with romantic love in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.\n\nFebruary 14 was traditionally dedicated to two ancient martyrs named Valentine. They are listed in early martyrologies under the date of February 14, which suggests that this is date of their deaths. There is a third St. Valentine from Africa who was also martyred on February 14, but he didn't get a saint's day. There is very little information about any these Valentines that can be considered historically accurate. The Valentines honored on February 14 are:\n\nValentine of Rome - a priest in Rome who suffered martyrdom about AD 269 and is buried on the Via Flaminia. His relics are at the Church of Saint Praxed in Rome  and at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland. \nValentine of Terni - He became bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) about AD 197 and is said to have been killed during the persecution of Emperor Aurelian. He is also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the beautiful Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni (Basilica di San Valentino). \nSome sources say the Valentine linked to romance is Valentine of Rome, others say Valentine of Terni. The Bollandists have concluded that the two were originally the same person.
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What do you want to know :\n-number\n-origin\n-history\n-what people do that day