Festive Calendar

Christmas

Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

Source: Wikipedia

Maghi

Sunday, 13 January 2019

Maghi is the Punjabi name for the festival of Makar Sankranti which is celebrated all over India as a winter harvest festival. It is a cultural, seasonal and a religious festival marking the agricultural new year, increase in daylight and holding of sports festivals.

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World Religion Day

Sunday, 20 January 2019

World Religion Day is an interfaith observance initiated in 1950 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, celebrated worldwide on the third Sunday in January each year. Though initiated in the United States, World Religion Day has come to be celebrated internationally.

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Setsubun

Sunday, 3 February 2019

Setsubun is the day before the beginning of spring in Japan. The name literally means "seasonal division", but usually the term refers to the spring Setsubun, which is celebrated yearly as part of the Spring Festival.

Source: Wikipedia

Chinese / Korean New Year

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Year of the Pig

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, traditionally runs from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month.

Korean New Year is generally the same day as Chinese New Year. It is one of the most significant traditional Korean holidays.

Source: Wikipedia - Chinese & Korean

Naw Ruz

Thursday, 21 March 2019

Naw Ruz is one of nine holy days for adherents of the Baha'i Faith worldwide and the first day of the Baha'i calendar. Since ancient times it has been a national holiday in Iran. Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith, adopted the day as a holy day.

Source: Wikipedia

Magha Puja

Thursday, 21 March 2019

Magha Puja is an important Buddhist festival celebrated on the full moon day of Magha in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, and on the full moon day of Phalguna in Myanmar. The spiritual aims of the day are: not to commit any kind of sins; do only good; purify one's mind.

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Mahavir Jayanti

Tuesday, 9 April 2019

In Jainism, Mahavir Jayanti, also known as Mahavir Janma Kalyanak, is the most important religious holiday. It celebrates the birth of Mahavira, the last Tirthankara.

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Vaisakhi

Sunday, 14 April 2019

Vaisakhi is a festival celebrated in the Punjab region. Vaisakhi is especially important for the Sikh community as it marks the establishment of the Khalsa. More recently, this festival is also celebrated around the world by Sikh diaspora.

Source: Wikipedia

Pesach

Saturday, 20 April 2019

Pesach or Passover is an important biblically derived Jewish festival. The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation over 3,300 years ago by God from slavery in ancient Egypt that was ruled by the Pharaohs, and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses.

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Easter

Sunday, 21 April 2019

Easter or Resurrection Sunday is a festival and holiday celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred three days after his crucifixion by Romans at Calvary.

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Ramadan

Monday, 6 May 2019

Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. Muslims worldwide observe this as a month of fasting. This annual observance is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month lasts 29–30 days based on the visual sightings of the crescent moon.

Source: Wikipedia

Vesak

Saturday, 18 May 2019

Vesak, also known as Buddha Day, is a holiday observed traditionally by Buddhists on different days in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and South East Asian countries. Sometimes informally called "Buddha's Birthday", it actually commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada or southern tradition.

Source: Wikipedia

Declaration of the Bab

Thursday, 23 May 2019

Siyyid Ali Muḥammad Shirazi was the founder of Babism, and one of three central figures of the Baha'i Faith. After his declaration he took the title of Bab meaning "Gate" or "Door". Bab's declaration is commemorated by Baha'i communities on a yearly basis.

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Ascension of Baha'u'llah

Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Baha'u'llah was the founder of the Baha'i Faith. He claimed to be a messenger from God referring to the fulfilment of the eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity, and other major religions. His death is commemorated by followers of the Baha'i Faith annually.

Source: Wikipedia

Eid al-Fitr

Wednesday, 5 June 2019

Eid al-Fitr ("Festival of breaking of the fast") is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.

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Pentecost

Sunday, 9 June 2019

Pentecost is a feast commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ. For this reason, Pentecost is sometimes described by some Christians today as the "Birthday of the Church".

Source: Wikipedia

Obon

Saturday, 13 July 2019

Obon or Bon is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors. This Buddhist / Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves.

Source: Wikipedia

Asalha Puja

Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Asalha Puja, also known as Dharma Day, is one of Theravada Buddhism’s most important festivals, celebrating as it does the Buddha’s first sermon in which he set out to his five former associates the doctrine that had come to him following his enlightenment.

Source: Wikipedia

Eid al-Adha

Monday, 12 August 2019

Eid al-Adha ("Festival of the sacrifice") is the second of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide each year. It honors the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his promised son, Ishmael, as an act of submission to God's command.

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Krishna Janmashtami

Friday, 23 August 2019

Krishna Janmashtami is an annual celebration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.

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Paryushana Parva

Tuesday, 3 September 2019

Paryushana Parva is one of the most important festival for Jains. Paryushana is formed by two words meaning ‘a year’ and ‘a coming back’. It is a festival of repentance and forgiveness.

Source: Wikipedia

Ashura

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

The Day of Ashura is on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar. In Shia Islam, it marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. In Sunni Islam, it marks the day that Moses fasted as gratitude for the liberation of the Israelites.

Source: Wikipedia

Navratri

Sunday, 29 September 2019

Navratri is a festival dedicated to the worship of the Hindu deity Durga. The word Navaratri means 'nine nights' in Sanskrit, nava meaning nine and ratri meaning nights.

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Rosh Hashanah

Monday, 30 September 2019

Rosh Hashanah begins on the first day of Tishrei, the first month of the Jewish civil year, but the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. The day is believed to be the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve.

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Yom Kippur

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people. It's central themes are atonement and repentance.

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Diwali

Sunday, 27 October 2019

Diwali (also known as "Festival of Lights") is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in Autumn every year. The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness.

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Birth of Baha'u'llah

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

The Birth of Baha'u'llah is one of nine holy days in the Baha'i calendar that is celebrated by Baha'is and during which work is suspended. The holy day celebrates the birth of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith.

Source: Wikipedia

Guru Nanak's Birthday

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Guru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated world-wide on Kartik Puranmashi, the full-moon day which falls on different dates each year in the month of Katak, October–November.

Source: Wikipedia

Advent

Sunday, 1 December 2019

Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. The term is an anglicized version of the Latin word adventus, meaning "coming".

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Hanukkah

Monday, 23 December 2019

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights and Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BCE.

Source: Wikipedia

Christmas

Wednesday, 25 December 2019

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

Source: Wikipedia