Wishing you a meaningful recognition of all holidays, celebrations, and remembrances that are occurring this year.
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August 2023
Aug. 1 Lammas/Lughnasadh (begins); Fast in Honor of Holy Mother of Jesus (begins)
Aug. 4 Birthday of Barack Obama
Aug. 6 Transfiguration of the Lord (Feast of the Transfiguration)
Aug. 9 International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Aug. 13 Obon (Ullambana) (begins)
Aug. 15 India Independence Day; Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary; Dormition of the Theotokos
Aug. 17 Marcus Garvey Day; South Asian Heritage Month (ends)
Aug. 18 Lord Krishna’s Birthday
Aug. 21 Khordad Sal
Aug. 23 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition and the anniversary of the uprising in Santo Domingo
Aug. 24 Birthday of Marlee Matlin
Aug. 26 Women’s Equality Day
Aug. 30 Raksha Bandhan; Hungry Ghost Festival
September 2023
Sept. 1 National Recovery Month (begins)
Sept. 4 Labor Day
Sept. 6 Janmashtami (begins); Arba’een
Sept. 11 Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance; Paryushana Parvarambha
Sept. 12 Ethiopian New Year
Sept. 14 Elevation of the Life Giving Cross
Sept. 15 Latinx Heritage Month (begins); Rosh Hashanah (begins)
Sept. 18 Fast of Gedaliah
Sept. 19 Ganesh Chaturthi
Sept. 20 HeForShe
Sept. 21 Nativity of the Theotokos; Mabon (begin)
Sept. 22 Autumnal Equinox; Native American Day
Sept. 23 Bisexuality Day
Sept. 24 Yom Kippur (begins)
Sept. 26 Mawlid (begins)
Sept. 27 Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Sunni); Meskel
Sept. 28 Teacher’s Day in Taiwan; Eid Milad un-Nabi
Sept. 29 Sukkot (begins); Michaelmas
October 2023
Oct. 1 National Disability Employment Awareness Month (begins); Global Diversity Awareness Month (begins); Breast Cancer Awareness Month (begins); LGBTQ+ History Month (begins); Polish American Heritage Month (begins); Black History Month (begins); Filipino American History Month (begins); National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (begins)
Oct. 3 Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Shia)
Oct. 4 St. Francis Day; Blessing of the Animals
Oct. 6 Shemini Atzeret (begins)
Oct. 7 Simchat Torah (begins)
Oct. 8 International Lesbian Day; Latina Equal Pay Day
Oct. 9 Columbus Day; Indigenous People’s Day
Oct. 10 World Mental Health Day; Canadian Thanksgiving
Oct. 11 National Coming Out Day
Oct. 14 Defender of Ukraine Day
Oct. 15 Navratri (begins)
Oct. 16 Birth of Báb
Oct. 17 Birth of Bahá’u’lláh; Spirit Day
Oct. 18 International Pronouns Day
Oct. 20 Sikh Holy Day
Oct. 23 Asexual Awareness Week (begins)
Oct. 24 Dasara; Dussehra; Vijayadashami
Oct. 25 Larry Itliong Day
Oct. 26 Intersex Awareness Day
Oct. 31 Halloween; Reformation Day; Samhain (begins)
November 2023
Nov. 1, National Native American Heritage Month (begins); Movember (begins); All Saints’ Day; Día de los Muertos; National Family Caregivers Month (begins)
Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day
Nov. 4, Bandi Chorh Diwas
Nov 5, Trans Parent Day
Nov. 11, Veterans Day
Nov. 12, Diwali
Nov. 13, Transgender Awareness Week (begins)
Nov. 16, International Day for Tolerance; Dutch American Heritage Day
Nov. 19, International Men’s Day
Nov. 20, Transgender Day of Remembrance
Nov. 21, Presentation of the Theotokos
Nov 23, Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 24, Native American Heritage Day
Nov. 26, Feast of Christ the King
Nov. 27, Parkash Guru Nanak; Ascension of Abdu’l Baha (begins)
Nov. 28, Nativity Fast (begins)
Nov. 30, St. Andrew’s Day; Native Women’s Equal Pay Day
December 2023
Dec. 1, World AIDS Day
Dec. 3, International Day of Persons with Disabilities; Advent (begins)
Dec. 7, Chanukah/Hanukkah (begins); Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec. 8, Bodhi Day; Immaculate Conception of Mary; Pansexual Pride Day
Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day
Dec. 12, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Dec 13, St. Lucia’s Day
Dec. 15, Hanukkah ends
Dec. 16, Las Posadas (begins)
Dec. 18, Hanukkah/Chanukah (begins)
Dec. 21, Yule Winter Solstice
Dec. 24, Las Posadas & Advent ends
Dec. 25, Christmas
Dec. 26, Boxing Day; Kwanzaa (begins); Zartosht No-Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra); St. Stephen’s Day
Dec 27, St. John’s Apostle and Evangelist Day
Dec. 28, Feast of the Holy Innocents
Dec 30, Feast of the Holy Family
Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve; Watch Night
January 2024
Jan. 1, New Year’s Day
Jan. 1, Stalking Awareness Month (begins)
Jan. 1, Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Jan. 1, The Solemnity of Mary
Jan. 1, End of Kwanzaa
Jan. 1, Feast Day of St. Basil
Jan. 4, World Braille Day
Jan. 5, Twelfth Night
Jan. 6, Feast of the Epiphany
Jan 6, Theophany
Jan. 7, Eastern Orthodox Christmas
Jan. 13, Maghi/Lohri
Jan. 13, Korean American Day
Jan. 14, Orthodox New Year
Jan. 15, Makar Sankranti
Jan. 15, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan. 18, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
Jan. 20, Timkat
Jan. 20, Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Ji
Jan. 21, World Religion Day
Jan. 22, Lunar New Year
Jan. 24, Tu BiShvat (begins)
Jan. 25, Mahayana New Year
Jan. 26, Republic Day of India
Jan. 27, International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust
Jan. 30, Fred Korematsu Day
February 2024
Feb. 1, Black History Month (begins)
Feb. 1, National Freedom Day
Feb. 1, St. Brigid of Kildare
Feb. 1, Imbolc (begins)
Feb. 2, Candlemas
Feb. 2, Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple
Feb. 3, Setsubun
Feb. 3, St. Blaise Day (The Blessing of the Throats)
Feb. 3, Four Chaplains Day
Feb. 5, Magha Puja Day (Maka Bucha)
Feb. 6, Laylat al-Mi’raj (begins)
Feb. 10, Lunar New Year
Feb. 10, Losar (begins)
Feb. 12, Lincoln’s Birthday
Feb. 13, Mardi Gras
Feb. 13, Shrove Tuesday
Feb. 14, St. Valentine’s Day
Feb. 14, Frederick Douglass’ birthday
Feb. 14, Ash Wednesday/Lent Begins
Feb. 14, Vasant Panchami
Feb. 15, Nirvana Day
Feb. 15, Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday
Feb. 18, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (begins)
Feb. 19, A Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Evacuation
Feb. 19, Washington’s Birthday/Presidents’ Day
Feb. 24, Birthday of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Feb. 24, Maghi-Purnima
Feb. 24, Magha Puja
Feb. 24, Laylat al Bara’ah (begins)
Feb. 24, Lantern Festival
Feb. 26, Festival of Ayyam-i-Ha (begins)
March 2024
Mar. 1, Women’s History Month (begins)
Mar. 1, National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (begins)
Mar. 1, National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month (begins)
Mar. 1, National Irish American Heritage Month (begins)
Mar. 1, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (begins)
Mar. 1, St. David’s Day
Mar. 1, Zero Discrimination Day
Mar. 1, Nineteen-Day Fast (begins at sunset)
Mar. 2, Read Across America Day
Mar. 8, International Women’s Day
Mar. 8, Maha Shivaratri
Mar. 10, Ramadan (begins)
Mar. 10, Harriet Tubman Day
Mar. 10, Meatfare Sunday (The Sunday of Last Judgment)
Mar. 12, Equal Pay Day
Mar. 15, International Day to Combat Islamophobia
Mar. 17, St. Patrick’s Day
Mar. 17, Cheesefare Sunday or Forgiveness Sunday
Mar. 17, Women’s Military History Week (begins)
Mar. 18, Neurodiversity Celebration Week (begins)
Mar. 18, Great Lent (begins) or Clean Monday
Mar. 19, Feast of St. Joseph
Mar. 19, Ostara (Spring Equinox)
Mar. 19, Nowrūz (begins)
Mar. 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mar. 21, World Down Syndrome Day
Mar. 21, Fast of Esther
Mar. 23, Purim (begins)
Mar. 23, Lazarus Saturday
Mar. 24, Palm Sunday
Mar. 24, Sunday of Orthodoxy
Mar. 24, Lord’s Evening Meal
Mar. 25, Holi (begins)
Mar. 25, Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mar. 25, International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mar. 25, Hola Mohalla (begins)
Mar. 28, Maundy Thursday
Mar. 29, Good Friday
Mar. 30, Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
Mar. 31, César Chávez Day
Mar. 31, Easter
Mar. 31, International Transgender Day of Visibility
April 2024
Apr. 1, Arab American Heritage Month (begins)
Apr. 1, Diversity Month (begins)
Apr. 1, Sexual Assault Awareness Month (begins)
Apr. 1, National Deaf History Month (begins)
Apr. 2, World Autism Awareness Day
Apr. 2, 23rd Night of Ramadan
Apr. 3, Yazidi New Year
Apr. 5, Laylat al-Qadr Night of Power
Apr. 6, International Asexuality Day
Apr. 6, 27th Night of Ramadan
Apr. 7, Divine Mercy Sunday
Apr. 9, Eid al-Fitr (begins)
Apr. 9, Chaitra Navratri
Apr. 10, Dolores Huerta Day
Apr. 10, International Day of Pink
Apr. 12, The Day of Silence
Apr. 13, Vaisakhi
Apr. 17, Rama Navami
Apr. 20, First Day of Ridván
Apr. 21, Mahavir Jayanti
Apr. 22, Passover (Pesach) (begins)
Apr. 22, Earth Day
Apr. 22, Ta’anit Bechorot
Apr. 23, St. George’s Day
Apr. 23, Hanuman Jayanti
Apr. 24, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Apr. 24, Theravada New Year (begins)
Apr. 25, Gathering of Nations (begins)
Apr. 26, Lesbian Visibility Day
Apr. 27, Lazarus Saturday
Apr. 28, International Girls in ICT Day
Apr. 28, Workers’ Memorial Day
Apr. 28, Ninth Day of Ridván
May 2024
May 1, National Military Appreciation Month (begins)
May 1, Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month (begins)
May 1, Jewish American Heritage Month (begins)
May 1, Mental Health Awareness Month (begins)
May 1, Older Americans/Older Californians Month (begins)
May 1, Beltane
May 1: May Day, also called Workers’ Day or International Workers’ Day
May 2, Twelfth Day of Ridván
May 2, Day of Prayer
May 3, Eastern Orthodox Good Friday
May 4, Yom HaAtzma’ut (begins)
May 4, Wildfire Preparedness Week (begins)
May 5, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week (begins)
May 5, Cinco de Mayo
May 5, Eastern Orthodox Easter
May 5, Vesak (Theravada)
May 5, Pascha (Easter)
May 6, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
May 9, Ascension Day (Christian Protestant and Catholic)
May 12, Mother’s Day
May 12, Yom HaZikaron (begins)
May 17, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
May 18, Armed Forces Day
May 19, Birthday of Malcolm X
May 19, Pentecost Sunday
May 22, Harvey Milk Day
May 22, Declaration of the Báb (begins)
May 23, Visakha Puja Day/Wesak (Buddha Day)
May 24, Pansexual Visibility Day
May 25, Lag B’Omer (begins)
May 26, Trinity Sunday
May 27, Ascension of Baha’u’llah (begins)
May 27, Memorial Day
May 30, Corpus Christi
June 2024
June 1, Pride Month (begins)
June 1, Immigrant Heritage Month (begins)
June 1, Caribbean American Heritage Month (begins)
June 2, Native American Citizenship Day
June 4, Vesak (Mahayana)
June 9, Puerto Rican Day Parade
June 11, Shavuot (begins)
June 12, Loving Day
June 13, Ascension Day Christian – Orthodox.
June 14, Flag Day
June 14, Hajj (begins)
June 15, Holy Day of Arafah
June 16, Eid al-Adha
June 19, Juneteenth
June 25, Eid al-Ghadeer (Islam)
June 27, Helen Keller’s Birthday
June 30, Pride Day
July 2024
July 1, Disability Pride Month (begins)
July 2, Birthday of Thurgood Marshall
July 4, Independence Day
July 6, Birthday of 14th Dalai Lama
July 6, Birthday of Frida Kahlo
July 7, Hijri New Year
July 9, Martyrdom of the Báb
July 14, International Nonbinary People’s Day
July 18, Birthday of Nelson Mandela
July 24, Pioneer Day
July 26, Disability Independence Day
July 27, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day
July 30, International Day of Friendship