Celebrating and Honoring

Aug. 1, Intersectionality Awareness Month (begins)
Aug. 1, Fast in Honor of Holy Mother of Jesus (begins)
Aug. 1, Lammas/Lughnasadh (begins)
Aug. 2, Tisha B’Av (begins)
Aug. 4, Birthday of Barack Obama
Aug. 6, Transfiguration of the Lord (Feast of the Transfiguration)
Aug. 7, Battle of Boyacá Day
Aug. 8, Raksha Bandhan
Aug. 8, California Panda Day
Aug. 9, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aug. 9, National Day of Singapore
Aug. 11, Independence Day (Día del Primer Grito de Independencia de Quito)
Aug. 11, Mountain Day
Aug. 13, Obon (Ullambana) (begins)
Aug. 15, Krishna Janmashtami (begins)
Aug. 15, India Independence Day
Aug. 15, Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary/Dormition of the Theotokos
Aug. 15, Ferragosto
Aug. 15, National Liberation Day of Korea
Aug. 16, Ashura (begins)
Aug. 17, Marcus Garvey Day
Aug. 17, South Asian Heritage Month (ends)
Aug. 18, Lord Krishna’s Birthday
Aug. 19, World Humanitarian Day
Aug. 20, Paryushana (begins)
Aug. 21, Khordad Sal
Aug. 21, Ninoy Aquino Day
Aug. 23, International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Aug. 24, Birthday of Marlee Matlin
Aug. 25, Arba’een (begins)
Aug. 26, Women’s Equality Day
Aug. 26, California Farmworker Day
Aug. 27, Ganesh Chaturthi
Aug. 28, Samvatsari
Aug. 29, Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Aug. 31, International Day of People of African Descent

Sept. 1, Intergeneration Month (begins)
Sept. 1, National Recovery Month (begins)
Sept. 1, First Parkash
Sept. 1, Labor Day
Sept. 4, Richard Wright’s Birthday
Sept. 5, Mawlid Al-Nabi (Birth of the Prophet Muhammad) (begins)
Sept. 6, Hungry Ghost Festival
Sept. 7, Brazilian Independence Day
Sept. 8, National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week (begins)
Sept. 10, World Suicide Prevention Day
Sept. 11, Ethiopian New Year
Sept. 11, Patriot Day/National Day of Service and Remembrance
Sept. 14, Elevation of the Life-Giving Cross (Holy Cross)
Sept. 15, Latinx Heritage Month (begins)
Sept. 15, World Afro Day
Sept. 15, Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Sunni Islam)
Sept. 15, Guatemala Independence Day
Sept. 15, Respect for the Aged Day
Sept. 16, Bisexual Awareness Week (begins)
Sept. 16, Mexican Independence Day
Sept. 17, California Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
Sept. 17, California Strong Start & Beyond Day
Sept. 18, International Equal Pay Day
Sept. 18, Chilean Independence Day
Sept. 19, Army Day
Sept. 20, California POW/MIA Recognition Day
Sept. 20, HeForShe
Sept. 21, International Day of Peace
Sept. 21, Nativity of the Theotokos
Sept. 21, Mabon
Sept. 22, Autumnal Equinox
Sept. 22, Rosh Hashanah (begins)
Sept. 23, International Day of Sign Languages
Sept. 23, Celebrate Bisexuality Day
Sept. 23, Autumnal Equinox Day Japan
Sept. 23, Saudi National Day
Sept. 26, Native American Day
Sept. 27, Meskel
Sept. 27, The Day of the Walloon Region
Sept. 27, French Community Holiday
Sept. 28, Teachers’ Day in Taiwan
Sept. 29, Michaelmas

Oct. 1, LGBTQ+ History Month (begins)
Oct. 1, National Disability Employment Awareness Month (begins)
Oct. 1, Global Diversity Awareness Month (begins)
Oct. 1, Polish American Heritage Month (begins)
Oct. 1, Filipino American History Month (begins)
Oct. 1, Breast Cancer Awareness Month (begins)
Oct. 1, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (begins)
Oct. 1, Yom Kippur (begins)
Oct. 1, International Day of Older Persons
Oct. 1, National Day of the People’s Republic of China
Oct. 2, Dasara; Dussehra; Vijayadashami
Oct. 2, Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday (International Day of Non-Violence)
Oct. 3, Day of German Unity
Oct. 3, Gaecheonjeol (National Foundation Day)
Oct. 3, Sharad Navratri (begins)
Oct. 4, St. Francis Day
Oct. 4, Blessing of the Animals
Oct. 5, Chuseok (Hangawi) (begins)
Oct. 5, Republic Day
Oct. 6, Mid-Autumn Festival
Oct. 6, Sukkot (begins)
Oct. 6, Fast of Gedaliah
Oct. 8, Latina Equal Pay Day
Oct. 8, International Lesbian Day
Oct. 9, Hangul Day (Korean Alphabet Day)
Oct. 10, Guayaquil Independence Day
Oct. 10, World Mental Health Day
Oct. 10, World Inclusion Day
Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day
Oct. 12, National Day of Spain (Día de la Hispanidad)
Oct. 12, Our Lady of Aparecida's Day (Nossa Senhora de Aparecida)
Oct. 13, Canadian Thanksgiving
Oct. 13, Columbus Day
Oct. 13, National Indigenous Peoples Day
Oct. 13, Discovery of Two Worlds Day (Descubrimiento de Dos Mundos; Día de la Raza, Day of the Race)
Oct. 13, Shemini Atzeret (The Eighth Day of Assembly) (begins)
Oct. 13, Sports Day
Oct. 14, Simchat Torah (begins)
Oct. 14, Defender of Ukraine Day
Oct. 15, International Pronouns Day  
Oct. 17, Spirit Day (Anti-Bullying)
Oct. 20, Diwali (begins)
Oct. 20, Installation of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Oct. 20, Birth of Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Oct. 20, Revolution Day
Oct. 20, Asexual Awareness Week (begins)
Oct. 22, Birth of Báb (begins)
Oct. 25, California Larry Itliong Day
Oct. 26, Intersex Awareness Day
Oct. 31, Halloween
Oct. 31, Reformation Day
Oct. 31, Samhain (begins)

Nov. 1, Native American Heritage Month (begins)
Nov. 1, National Family Caregivers Month (begins)
Nov. 1, Movember (begins)
Nov. 1, California Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month (begins)
Nov. 1, All Saints’ Day
Nov. 1, Bandi Chhor Divas
Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day
Nov. 2, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) (begins)
Nov. 3, Cuenca Independence Day
Nov. 3, Culture Day
Nov. 3, Birth of Bahá’u’lláh
Nov. 3, Trans Parent Day
Nov. 5, Guru Nanak’s Birthday
Nov. 11, Veterans Day
Nov. 11, Armistice Day (Remembrance Day)
Nov. 11, Cartagena Independence Day
Nov. 13, Transgender Awareness Week (begins)
Nov. 15, Nativity Fast (begins)
Nov. 15, Republic Proclamation Day
Nov. 16, International Day for Tolerance
Nov. 16, Dutch American Heritage Day
Nov. 17, Revolution Day (Día de la Revolución)
Nov. 19, International Men’s Day
Nov. 20, Transgender Day of Remembrance
Nov. 20, Black Consciousness Day (Zumbi dos Palmares/Día da Consciência Negra)
Nov. 21, Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day
Nov. 21, Presentation of the Theotokos
Nov. 23, Feast of Christ the King
Nov. 23, Labor Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 24, Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
Nov. 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Nov. 26, Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (begins)
Nov. 27, Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 28, Native American Heritage Day
Nov. 30, Advent (begins)
Nov. 30, Bonifacio Day
Nov. 30, Commemoration Day (Martyr’s Day)
Nov. 30, St. Andrew’s Day

Dec. 1, Universal Human Rights Month (begins)
Dec. 1, Great Union Day
Dec. 1, Independence Restoration Day
Dec. 1, World AIDS Day
Dec. 2, National Day
Dec. 3, International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Dec. 6, Constitution Day (Día de la Constitución Española)
Dec. 6, St. Nicholas Day
Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec. 8, Pansexual Pride Day
Dec. 8, Bodhi Day
Dec. 8, Immaculate Conception of Mary
Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day
Dec. 12, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Dec. 13, St. Lucia’s Day
Dec. 14, Hanukkah/Chanukah (begins)
Dec. 16, Las Posadas (begins)
Dec. 18, Rohatsu
Dec. 21, Yule/Winter Solstice
Dec. 24, Christmas Eve
Dec. 25, Christmas Day
Dec. 25, Feast of the Nativity
Dec. 26, Kwanzaa (begins)
Dec. 26, Boxing Day
Dec. 26, St. Stephen’s Day
Dec. 26,  Zartosht No-Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra)
Dec. 27, St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Day
Dec. 28, Feast of the Holy Innocents
Dec. 29, Feast of the Holy Family
Dec. 31, Rizal Day
Dec. 31, Watch Night
Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve

Jan. 1, Stalking Awareness Month (begins)
Jan. 1, New Year’s Day
Jan. 1, The Solemnity of Mary
Jan. 1, Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Jan. 1, Feast Day of St. Basil
Jan. 1, Shogatsu/Gantan-sai
Jan. 3, Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
Jan. 4, World Braille Day
Jan. 5, Twelfth Night
Jan. 5, Guru Gobind Singh’s Birthday
Jan. 6, Feast of Epiphany (Western) / Theophany (Orthodox)
Jan. 6, Día de los Reyes
Jan. 7, Eastern Orthodox Christmas
Jan. 12, Birthday of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (begins) (Shia)
Jan. 13, Maghi/Lohri
Jan. 13, Korean American Day
Jan. 14, Makar Sankranti/Pongal
Jan. 14, Mahayana New Year
Jan. 14, Orthodox New Year
Jan. 15, California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan. 16, Lailat al Miraj (begins)
Jan. 17, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (begins)
Jan. 18, World Religion Day
Jan. 19, Timkat
Jan. 19, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan. 20, Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti
Jan. 23, California Ed Roberts Day
Jan. 23, Vasant Panchami
Jan. 23, Birthday of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Sunni)
Jan. 26, Republic Day
Jan. 27, International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Jan. 30, California Fred Korematsu Day

Feb. 1, Black History Month (begins)
Feb. 1, National Freedom Day
Feb. 1, St. Brigid’s Day
Feb. 1, Imbolc (begins)
Feb. 1, Tu BiShvat (begins)
Feb. 1, Maghi-Purnima
Feb. 2, Candlemas
Feb. 2, Groundhog Day
Feb. 3, Setsubun-Sai
Feb. 3, St. Blaise Day (The Blessing of the Throats)
Feb. 3, Four Chaplains Day
Feb. 3, Laylat al-Bara’ah (Shab-e Bara’at or Night of Forgiveness)
Feb. 6, California Ronald Reagan Day
Feb. 7, CalEITC Awareness Week (begins)
Feb. 11, International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Feb. 12, Lincoln’s Birthday
Feb. 13, Word Radio Day
Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day
Feb. 14, Frederick Douglass’ Birthday (Observed)
Feb. 15, Parinirvana Day (Nirvana Day)
Feb. 15, Maha Shivaratri
Feb. 15, Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple
Feb. 15, Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday
Feb. 15, Meatfare Sunday (The Sunday of Last Judgment)
Feb. 16, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (begins)
Feb. 16, Washington’s Birthday/Presidents Day
Feb. 17, Lunar New Year
Feb. 17, Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
Feb. 18, Ash Wednesday
Feb. 18, Ramadan (begins)
Feb. 18, Losar (Tibetan New Year) (begins)
Feb. 19, California A Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Revolution
Feb. 20, World Day of Social Justice
Feb. 21, International Mother Language Day
Feb. 25, Intercalary Days (Ayyám-i-Há) (begins)
Feb. 28, Leap Day

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, Nineteen-Day Fast (begins)
Mar. 1, St. David’s Day
Mar. 1, Zero Discrimination Day
Mar. 2, Granting of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Ricans
Mar. 2, Read Across America Day (begins)
Mar. 2, Forgiveness (Cheesefare) Sunday
Mar. 3, Great Lent (Clean Monday) Eastern Orthodox (begins)
Mar. 3, Lantern Festival
Mar. 3, Magha Puja Day (Makha Bucha)
Mar. 4, National Equal Pay Day
Mar. 5, Lent (begins)
Mar. 5, Equal Pay Day
Mar. 7, 23rd Night of Ramadan
Mar. 8, International Women’s Day
Mar. 9, Orthodox Sunday
Mar. 10, Harriet Tubman Day
Mar. 13, Purim (begins)
Mar. 13, Holi (begins)
Mar. 13, Fast of Esther
Mar. 14, Hola Mohalla (begins)
Mar. 15, International Day to Combat Islamophobia
Mar. 16, Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Power)
Mar. 16,  27th Night of Ramadan
Mar. 17, National Women’s Military History Week (begins)
Mar. 17, Neurodiversity Celebration Week (begins)
Mar. 17, California United States Navy Week (begins)
Mar. 17, St. Patrick’s Day
Mar. 19, Saint Joseph’s Day
Mar. 19, Eid al-Fitr (begins)
Mar. 20, California Nowrūz Day  (begins)
Mar. 20, Ostara (Spring Equinox)
Mar. 20, Nowruz/Norooz (begins)
Mar. 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mar. 21, World Down Syndrome Day
Mar. 23, 23rd Night of Ramadan
Mar. 25, Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
Mar. 25, International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mar. 26, Khordad Sal (birth of prophet Zoroaster)
Mar. 26, Rama Navami
Mar. 27, 27th Night of Ramadan
Mar. 29, Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
Mar. 29, Palm Sunday
Mar. 30, Chaitra Navratri
Mar. 31, California César Chávez Day
Mar. 31, International Transgender Day of Visibility
Mar. 31, Mahavir Jayanti

Apr. 1, National Arab American Heritage Month (begins)
Apr. 1, Celebrate Diversity Month (begins)
Apr. 1, Sexual Assault Awareness Month (begins)
Apr. 1, National Deaf History Month (begins)
Apr. 1, National Autism Acceptance Month (begins)
Apr. 1, Yazidi New Year
Apr. 1, Fast of Bechorot (Ta’anit Bechorot)
Apr. 1, Passover (Pesach) (begins)
Apr. 2, World Autism Awareness Day
Apr. 2, Lord’s Evening Meal (Memorial of Jesus’ Death)
Apr. 2, Hanuman Jayanti
Apr. 2, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday)
Apr. 2, Theravada New Year (begins)
Apr. 4, Lazarus Saturday Eastern Orthodox
Apr. 5, Easter (Christian)
Apr. 6, Easter Monday
Apr. 6, International Asexuality Day
Apr. 6, Tartan Day
Apr. 8, International Day of Pink
Apr. 10, California Dolores Huerta Day
Apr. 10, Day of Silence
Apr. 10, Eastern Orthodox Good Friday
Apr. 11, Lazarus Saturday
Apr. 12, Divine Mercy Sunday
Apr. 12, Eastern Orthodox Easter (Pascha Orthodox Christian)
Apr. 13, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (begins)
Apr. 14, Vaisakhi (Baisakhi)
Apr. 20, First Day of Ridván (begins)
Apr. 21, California John Muir Day
Apr. 22, Earth Day
Apr. 23, St. George’s Day
Apr. 23, Gathering of Nations (begins)
Apr. 23, International Girls in ICT Day
Apr. 24, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Apr. 26, Lesbian Visibility Day
Apr. 28, California Workers’ Memorial Day
Apr. 28, Ninth Day of Ridván
Apr. 30, California Apprenticeship Day

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 Month (begins)
May 1, Twelfth Day of Ridván
May 1, Beltane
May 1, May Day (Workers’ Day or International Workers’ Day)
May 1, National Day of Prayer
May 1, National Small Business Month (begins)
May 3, Feasts of Saints Philip and James
May 4, Yom HaAtzma’ut (begins)
May 4, Wildfire Preparedness Week (begins)
May 4, California Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week (begins)
May 5, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week (begins)
May 5, Cinco de Mayo
May 5, Buddha’s Birthday
May 9, National Military Spouse Appreciation Day
May 11, California Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Awareness Day
May 12, Mother’s Day
May 12, Yom HaZikaron (begins)
May 12, Buddha Day (Vesak/Visakha Puja/Wesak)
May 15, Lag BaOmer (begins)
May 17, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
May 17, Armed Forces Day
May 19, Malcolm X Day
May 21, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 21, Shavuot (begins)
May 22, California Harvey Milk Day
May 22, Declaration of the Báb (begins)
May 24, Pansexual Visibility Day
May 24, Pentecost
May 25, Memorial Day
May 25, Hajj (begins)
May 26, Day of Arafah (begins)
May 27, Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh (begins)
May 27, Eid-al-Adha (begins)
May 29, Ascension Day (Ascension of Jesus)
May 31, Trinity Sunday

June 1, LGBTQ+ Pride Month (begins)
June 1, Immigrant Heritage Month (begins)
June 1, Caribbean American Heritage Month (begins)
June 2, Native American Citizenship Day
June 3, Eid al-Ghadir
June 4, Corpus Christi
June 8, Puerto Rican Day Parade
June 12, Loving Day
June 12, Feast of the Most Sacred Heart
June 14, Flag Day
June 16, Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev
June 16, Al-Hijra / Islamic New Year/Hijri New Year (1st of Muharram) (begins)
June 18, International Day of Countering Hate Speech
June 19, Juneteenth National Independence Day
June 19, New Church Day
June 20, Litha/Midsummer (Summer Solstice)
June 22, Windrush Day
June 25, Ashura (10th of Muharram) (begins)
June 27, Helen Keller’s Birthday
June 28, Pride Day
June 29, Feast of Saints Peter and Paul

July 1, Disability Pride Month (begins)
July 1, Canada Day (Fête du Canada)
July 2, Birthday of Thurgood Marshall
July 2, Fast of the 17th of Tammuz
July 2, Start of The Three Weeks (begins)
July 4, Independence Day
July 6, Birthday of 14th Dalai Lama
July 6, Birthday of Frida Kahlo
July 8, Martyrdom of the Báb (begins)
July 10, Asalha Puja Day (Dharma Day)
July 11, St. Benedict Day
July 14, International Non-Binary People’s Day
July 15, St. Vladimir of the Great Day
July 18, Nelson Mandela International Day
July 22, Tisha B'Av (begins)
July 23, Birthday of Haile Selassie I
July 24, Pioneer Day
July 24, St. James the Great Day
July 26, Disability Independence Day
July 27, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day
July 30, International Day of Friendship