How many working days in year 1914?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1914 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1914.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 1914
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 13 April, 1914
3. Labor Day : Friday, 1 May, 1914
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 21 May, 1914
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 1 June, 1914
6. National Day : Tuesday, 21 July, 1914
7. Armistice Day : Wednesday, 11 November, 1914
8. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 1914
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Assumption of Mary : Saturday, 15 August, 1914
2. French Community Holiday : Sunday, 27 September, 1914
3. All Saints' Day : Sunday, 1 November, 1914