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.
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