Honoring and Celebrating Our Community Calendar
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December 5, 2025
Celebrating and Honoring 2025-26
Aug. 1, Lammas/Lughnasadh (begins)
Aug. 2, Tisha B’Av (begins)
Aug. 6, Transfiguration of the Lord (Feast of the Transfiguration)
Aug. 9, Raksha Bandhan
Aug. 9, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aug. 13, Obon (Ullambana) (begins) Aug. 14, Arba’een (begins)
Aug. 15, Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aug. 15, Fast in Honor of the Holy Mother of Jesus
Aug. 15, Dormition of the Theotokos
Aug. 16, Krishna Janmashtami (begins)
Aug. 17, Marcus Garvey Day
Aug. 17, South Asian Heritage Month (ends)
Aug. 20, Paryushana Parva (begins)
Aug. 23, International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
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, Mawlid al-Nabi (begins)
Sept. 7, 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. 12, Paitishahem Gahanbar (begins)
Sept. 14, Elevation of the Life-Giving Cross
Sept. 15, Latinx Heritage Month (begins)
Sept. 16, Bisexual Awareness Week (begins)
Sept. 18, International Equal Pay Day
Sept. 21, International Day of Peace
Sept. 21, Nativity of the Theotokos
Sept. 22, Mabon / Autumnal Equinox
Sept. 22, Rosh Hashanah (begins at sundown)
Sept. 22, Sharad Navratri (begins)
Sept. 23, International Day of Sign Languages
Sept. 23, Celebrate Bisexuality Day
Sept. 25, Fast of Gedaliah
Sept. 26, Native American Day
Sept. 27, Meskel
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 at sundown)
Oct. 2, Dasara/Dussehra/Vijayadashami
Oct. 2, Mehregan
Oct. 4, St. Francis Day
Oct. 4, Blessing of the Animals
Oct. 6, Sukkot (begins at sundown)
Oct. 8, Latina Women’s Equal Pay Day
Oct. 8, International Lesbian Day
Oct. 13, Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah (begins at sundown)
Oct. 10, World Mental Health Day
Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day
Oct. 13, National Indigenous Peoples Day
Oct. 13, Columbus Day
Oct. 15, International Pronouns Day
Oct. 16, Spirit Day (Anti-Bullying)
Oct. 20, Birth of Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Oct. 20, Installation of Scriptures of Guru Granth Sahib
Oct. 20, Asexual Awareness Week (begins)
Oct. 20, Diwali / Deepavali (begins)
Oct. 22, Birth of the Báb
Oct. 23, Birth of the Bahá’u’lláh
Oct. 25, California Larry Itliong Day
Oct. 26, Intersex Awareness Day
Oct. 31, All Hallows’ Eve / All Saints’ Eve / Halloween
Oct. 31, Reformation Day
Oct. 31, Samhain (begins)
Nov. 1, National Native American Heritage Month (begins)
Nov. 1, National Family Caregivers Month (begins)
Nov. 1, Movember (begins)
Nov. 1, All Hallows’ Day / All Saints’ Day
Nov. 1, Bandi Chhor Divas
Nov. 2, Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead (begins)
Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day
Nov. 3, Trans Parent Day
Nov. 5, Birth of Guru Nanak
Nov. 11, Veterans Day
Nov. 13, Transgender Awareness Week (begins)
Nov. 15, Nativity Fast (begins)
Nov. 16, International Day for Tolerance
Nov. 16, Dutch American Heritage Day
Nov. 19, International Men’s Day
Nov. 20, Transgender Day of Remembrance
Nov. 21, Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day
Nov. 21, Presentation of the Theotokos
Nov. 23, Feast of Christ the King
Nov. 24, Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
Nov. 24, Day of Covenant (begins)
Nov. 26, Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha (begins)
Nov. 27, Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 28, Native American Heritage Day
Nov. 30, Advent (begins)
Nov. 30, St. Andrew’s Day
Dec. 1, World AIDS Day
Dec. 3, International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec. 8, Pansexual Pride Day
Dec. 8, Bodhi Day
Dec. 8, Feast of the 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. 13, Salgirah
Dec. 14, Hanukkah / Chanukah (begins)
Dec. 16, Las Posadas (begins)
Dec. 18, Rohatsu
Dec. 21, Yule / Winter Solstice (begins)
Dec. 21, Yalda Night / Shab-e Yalda / Shab-e Chelleh
Dec. 24, Christmas Eve
Dec. 25, Christmas
Dec. 25, Feast of the Nativity
Dec. 26, St. Stephen’s Day
Dec. 26, Zartosht No-Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra)
Dec. 26, Kwanzaa (begins)
Dec. 27, St John’s Apostle and Evangelist Day
Dec. 28, Feast of the Holy Innocents
Dec. 29, Feast of the Holy Family
Dec. 31, Watch Night
Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve
Jan. 1, New Year’s Day
Jan. 1, Gantan-sai
Jan. 1, The Solemnity of Mary
Jan. 1, Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Jan. 1, Feast Day of St. Basil
Jan. 1, Stalking Awareness Month (begins)
Jan. 2, Birthday of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (begins)
Jan. 3, Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
Jan. 3, Mahayana New Year
Jan. 4, World Braille Day
Jan. 5, Twelfth Night
Jan. 5, Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh
Jan. 6, Feast of Epiphany (Western) / Theophany (Orthodox) / Three Kings Day / Dia de los Reyes
Jan. 7, Eastern Orthodox Christmas
Jan. 13, Lohri
Jan. 13, Korean American Day
Jan. 14, Maghi / Makar Sankranti / Pongal
Jan. 14, Orthodox New Year
Jan. 16, Lailat al Miraj (begins)
Jan. 18, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (begins)
Jan. 18, World Religion Day
Jan. 19, Timkat
Jan. 19, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan. 23, Vasant Panchami
Jan. 27, International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Jan. 30, 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, Lailat al-Bara’ah (begins)
Feb. 3, Setsubun-Sai
Feb. 3, St. Blaise Day (The Blessing of the Throats)
Feb. 3, Four Chaplains Day
Feb. 12, Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
Feb. 14, St. Valentine’s Day
Feb. 15, Parinirvana / Nirvana Day
Feb. 15, Maha Shivaratri
Feb. 15, Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple
Feb. 16, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (begins)
Feb. 16, George Washington’s Birthday / President’s Day
Feb. 15, Meatfare Sunday (The Sunday of Last Judgment)
Feb. 17, Lunar New Year
Feb. 17, Shrove Tuesday / Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras
Feb. 17, Ramadan (begins)
Feb. 18, Losar (begins)
Feb. 18, Ash Wednesday
Feb. 19, California Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Evacuation
Feb. 20, World Day of Social Justice
Feb. 22, Forgiveness (Cheesefare) Sunday
Feb. 25, Festival of Ayyám-i-Há / Intercalary Days (begins) Feb. 29, 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, Orthodox Sunday
Mar. 1, Zero Discrimination Day
Mar. 2, Granting of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Ricans
Mar. 2, Read Across America Day (begins)
Mar. 2, Fast of Esther
Mar. 2, Purim (begins)
Mar. 3, Great Lent (Clean Monday) Eastern Orthodox (begins)
Mar. 3, Lantern Festival
Mar. 3, Magha Puja Day (Makha Bucha)
Mar. 4, Holi (begins)
Mar. 4, National Equal Pay Day
Mar. 4, Hola Mohalla (begins)
Mar. 4, Equal Pay Day
Mar. 8, International Women’s Day
Mar. 10, Harriet Tubman Day
Mar. 15, International Day to Combat Islamophobia
Mar. 16, Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Power)
Mar. 16, Hamaspathmaidyem Gahambar (begins)
Mar. 17, St. Patrick’s Day
Mar. 17, National Women’s Military History Week (begins)
Mar. 17, Neurodiversity Celebration Week (begins)
Mar. 19, Saint Joseph’s Day
Mar. 19, Chaitra Navratri (begins)
Mar. 19, Eid al-Fitr (begins)
Mar. 20, Ostara (Spring Equinox)
Mar. 20, Naw-Rúz (begins)
Mar. 20, Nowruz / Norooz (begins)
Mar. 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mar. 21, World Down Syndrome Day
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. 29, Palm Sunday
Mar. 29, Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
Mar. 31, Mahavir Jayanti
Mar. 31, International Transgender Day of Visibility
Mar. 31, César Chávez Day
Apr. 1, National Arab American Heritage Month (begins)
Apr. 1, Armenian 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’s Death)
Apr. 2, Theravada New Year (begins)
Apr. 2, Hanuman Jayanti
Apr. 2, Maundy Thursday / Holy Thursday
Apr. 3, Good Friday (Western Christian)
Apr. 4, Lazarus Saturday
Apr. 5, Easter (Western Christian)
Apr. 6, Easter Monday (Western Christian)
Apr. 6, International Asexuality Day
Apr. 6, Tartan Day
Apr. 8, International Day of Pink
Apr. 10, Dolores Huerta Day
Apr. 10, Day of Silence
Apr. 10, Good Friday (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
Apr. 12, Easter / Pascha (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
Apr. 12, Divine Mercy Sunday
Apr. 13, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (begins)
Apr. 14, Vaisakhi / Baisakhi
Apr. 20, First Day of Ridván (begins)
Apr. 22, Earth Day
Apr. 23, St. George’s Day
Apr. 24, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Apr. 25, Gathering of Nations (begins)
Apr. 26, Lesbian Visibility Day
Apr. 23, International Girls in ICT Day
Apr. 28, Workers’ Memorial Day
Apr. 29, Ninth Day of Ridván
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, Twelfth Day of Ridván
May 1, Visakha Puja / Vesak (Budda’s Birthday)
May 1, Beltane
May 1, May Day
May 1, International Workers’ Day
May 3, Feasts of Saints Philip and James
May 4, Wildfire Preparedness Week (begins)
May 4, Lag BaOmer (begins)
May 5, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week (begins)
May 5, Cinco de Mayo
May 7, National Day of Prayer
May 7, National Day of Reason
May 8, National Military Spouse Appreciation Day
May 10, Mother’s Day
May 14, Ascension Day (Ascension of Jesus)
May 15, Malcolm X Day
May 16, Armed Forces Day
May 17, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
May 21, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 21, Shavuot (begins)
May 22, Harvey Milk Day
May 23, Declaration of the Báb (begins)
May 24, Pansexual Visibility Day
May 24, Pentecost
May 25, Memorial Day
May 24, Hajj (begins)
May 25, Day of Arafah (begins)
May 26, Eid al-Adha (begins)
May 28, Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh (begins)
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 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 New Year
June 18, International Day of Countering Hate Speech
June 19, Juneteenth National Independence Day / Emancipation Day / Freedom Day
June 19, New Church Day
June 21, Litha / Midsummer / Summer Solstice
June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day / First Nations Day June 25, Ashura (10th of Muharram) (begins)
June 28, International LGBT Pride Day
June 29, Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
June 29, Maidyoshahem Gahanbar (begins)
July 1, Disability Pride Month (begins)
July 2, Seventeenth of Tammuz
July 4, Independence Day
July 9, Martyrdom of the Báb (begins)
July 11, St. Benedict Day
July 11, Imamat 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 25, St. James the Great Day
July 26, Disability Independence Day
July 27, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day
July 29, Asalha Puja Day (Dharma Day)
July 29, Guru Purnima / Poornima
July 30, International Day of Friendship
About the calendar: This calendar aims to support learning, cross-cultural connection, and meaningful recognition of holidays and celebrations across our campus community. It is a work in progress, and the Office of Inclusive Excellence welcomes feedback; please share your comments, corrections, or additional resources on our feedback form.
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