Calendar

JANUARY
New Year’s Day (January 1)
Mahayana New Year (January 7)
Makar Sankranti (January 15)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 16)
International Day of Racial Healing (January 17)
Lunar New Year (January 22)
Vasanta Panchami (January 26)
Holocaust Remembrance (January 27)

FEBRUARY
Black History Month
Valentine’s Day (February 14)
Parinirvana Day (February 15)
Maha Shivaratri (February 18)
President’s Day (February 20)
Mardi Gras (February 21)
Tibetan New Year (February 21)
Ash Wednesday (February 22)
Ayyám-i-Há (February 25-March 1)

MARCH
National Women’s History Month
Developmental Disability Month
Gender Equality Month
International Women’s Day (March 8)
Purim (March 6-7)
St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)
Shab-e-Barat (March 7-8)
Holi (March 8)
Naw-Rúz (March 20-21)
International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (March 21)
Norooz/Persian New Year (March 21-22)
Ramadan (March 22-April 21)
Chaitra Navratri (March 22-31)
Ayambil Oli (March 28-April 6)
International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31)

APRIL
National Arab Heritage Month
Mahavir Jayanti (April 4)
Passover (April 5-13)
Good Friday (April 7)
Easter (April 9)
Orthodox Easter Sunday (April 16)
Laylat al-Qadr, 27th Day of Ramadan (April 17)
Yom HaShao (April 17-18)
Zimbabwe Independence Day (April 18)
Eid al-Fitr (April 21-22)
National Day of Silence for LGBTQ (April 23)
First Day of Ridván (April 20-21)
Earth Day (April 22)
Ninth Day of Ridván (April 28-29)

MAY
AAPI Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
Twelfth Day of Ridván (May 1-2)
Beltane (May 1)
Cinco de Mayo (May 5)
National Day of Awareness for Missing
and Murdered Native Women and Girls (May 5)
Wesak/Buddha Day/Visakha Puja (May 5)
Siddartha Gautama’s (Buddha) Birthday (May 8)
Mother’s Day (May 14)
International Day Against Homophobia,
Transphobia, and Biphobia (May 17)
The Declaration of the Báb (May 23-24)
Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh (May 28-29)
Memorial Day (May 29)

JUNE
LGBTQIA Pride Month
Immigrant Heritage Month
Shavuot (May 25-27)
Father’s Day (June 19)
Juneteenth (June 19)
Summer Solstice (June 21)

JULY
Independence Day (July 4)
International Non-binary Peoples Day (July 14)
Nelson Mandela International Day (July 18)
Tisha B’Av (July 26-27)
Ashura starts (July 27-28)
International Day of Friendship (July 30)

AUGUST
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People  (August 9)
World Lion Day (August 10)
Pakistan Independence Day (August 14)
India Independence Day (August 15)
Korea Independence Day (August 15)
Women’s Equality Day (August 26)

SEPTEMBER
Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
Labor Day (September 4)
Paryushan Parva (September 11-18)
Rosh Hashanah (September 15–17)
Mexican Independence Day (September 16)
HeForShe (September 20)
Native American Day (September 22)
Yom Kippur (September 24 -25)
Eid Milad un-Nabi (September 26-27)
Mid-Autumn Festival (September 29)

OCTOBER
LGBTQIA+ History Month
Sukkot (September 29-6)
Chinese Independence Day (October 1)
Mental Awareness Week (October 1-7)
World Teacher’s Day (October 5)
Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah (October 6-7)
Indigenous People’s Day (October 10)
National Coming Out Day (October 11)
International Day of the Girl Child (October 11)
Defender of Ukraine Day (October 14)
Spirit Day  (September 17)
International Pronouns Day (October 18)
The anniversary of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh (October 27)

NOVEMBER
Native American Heritage Month
La Dia de Los Muertos (November 1-2)
Veterans Day (November 11)
Diwali (November 12)
The anniversary of birth of The Báb (November 12)
Thanksgiving Day (November 23)

DECEMBER
World AIDS Day (December 1)
Bodhi Day (December 8)
Hanukkah (December 7-15)
Winter Solstice (December 21)
Christmas Day (December 25)
Kwanzaa (December 26-January 1)

Special thank you to the Pathways Prefects for helping to identify the days noted on the calendar.