Toel's Day
Toel's Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom of Isselmere-Nieland on 12 December, on which employees, whatever their rank, work to rule and the Act is burned in effigy at drunken bonfires. Should the day fall on the weekend, the remembrance is witnessed on the Friday before if it falls on the Saturday, and Monday if on the Sunday.
Toel's Day commemorates a peasants' revolt led by Ulf Toel against the Tenancy Act of 1349[1] proclaimed by Alfred I. Villeins from the lower orders soon joined the revolt. Toel and his followers were crushed by the royal army at the Battle of Stoughton Bridge on 3 December 1349. The villeins' revolt was finally defeated on 12 December with the help of the burgesses.
Despite the reimposition of aristocratic authority, the day in fact marks the origins of the country's contemporary parliamentary democracy. In gratitude for their assistance in crushing the revolt, King Alfred I established a formal council of burgesses known as the Royal Assembly of Burgesses to advise him on town matters.
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