Light Our Candles: Kids Across the Globe

Kids Across the Globe

This calendar (and the linked Alphabetical List of Religious Observances and Alphabetical List of Civic Observances) are intended to be teacher resources that can be used in a number of ways. First, if you know that you will have a number of students of any given religion in your class, you can use this page to avoid scheduling conflicts that arise when a number of students will be absent for a religious observance. Second, you can use this information to acknowledge special days for individual students. Third, you can use this page to plan multicultural instruction to coincide with the holidays of a culture you plan to study. This and the two linked pages can also be used as classroom resources for your students in their study of other cultures.

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	August 2000
Date	Holiday	Observed by
15	Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Roman Catholics Eastern Orthodox Christians
	Rahki†	Hindus Jains
	Acadian National Day	Acadians
22	Sri Ramakrishna Jayanti†	Hindus
	Krishna Janmashtami†	Hindus
26	Paryushana Parva†	Sikhs
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	September 2000:
Date	Holiday	Observed by
2	Khamapana†	Sikhs
4	Labor Day	Americans
15	*National Hispanic-American Heritage Month*	Americans
17	Citizenship Day	Americans
19	San Gennaro Day	Italians Italian-Americans
30	Rosh Hashanah*	Jews
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	October 2000
Date	Holiday	Observed by
7	Dusserah†	Hindus Jains
9	Columbus Day (observed)	Americans
	Yom Kippur*	Jews
14-15	Sukkot *	Jews
20	Birth of the Bab*	Baha'i
21	Shemini 'Atzert*	Jews
22	Simchat Torah*	Jews
24	United Nations Day
26	Diwali†	Hindus Jains
27	Diwali†	Sikhs
31	Reformation Day	Protestants Lutherans
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	November 2000: *National American Indian Heritage Month*
Date	Holiday	Observed by
1	All Saints Day	Roman Catholics Protestants Lutherans
11	Veterans Day	Americans
12	Baha'u'llah's Birthday*	Baha'i
23	Thanksgiving	Americans
27	Ramadan	Muslims
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	December 2000
Date	Holiday	Observed by
3	First Sunday of Advent	Christians
6	St. Nicholas Day	Christians
8	Feast of the Immaculate Conception	Roman Catholics
	Bodhi Day	Buddhists
12	Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe	Roman Catholics
22	Hanukkah*	Jews
25	Christmas	Christians
26	Kwanzaa
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	January 2001
Date	Holiday	Observed by
1	New Year's Day
	Feast of Saint Basil	Eastern Orthodox Christians
6	Festival of the Three Kings	Christians
7	Feast of the Ephiphany	Christians
	The Nativity of Jesus Christ	Eastern Orthodox Christians
15	Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (observed)	Americans
24	Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese New Year	Buddhists
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	February 2001: *African-American Heritage Month*
Date	Holiday	Observed by
12	Abraham Lincoln's Birthday	Americans
14	St. Valentine's Day
15	Nirvana Day	Buddhists
19	President's Day	Americans
19-23	Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week
22	George Washington's Birthday	Americans
26	Eastern Orthodox Lent Begins	Eastern Orthodox Christians
28	Ash Wednesday	Roman Catholics Protestants
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	March 2001: *National Women's History Month*
Date	Holiday	Observed by
2	Month of Fasting*	Baha'i
9	Purim*	Jews
11	'Id al-Adha	Muslims
17	St. Patrick's Day
21	Naw-Ruz*	Baha'i
25	The Annunciation	Christians
26	Muharram	Muslims
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	April 2001
Date	Holiday	Observed by
4	Mahavir Jayanti†	Sikhs
8	Wesak	Buddhists
	Palm Sunday	Christians
	Passover*	Jews
12	Maundy Thursday	Roman Catholics Protestants
	Holy Thursday	Eastern Orthodox Christians
13	Good Friday	Roman Catholics Protestants
	Holy Friday	Eastern Orthodox Christians
14-16	Cambodian New Year	Buddhists
15	Easter	Roman Catholic Protestant Eastern Orthodox
20	Yom Hashoah*	Jews
21	Ridvan*	Baha'i
24	Armenian Martyrs' Day
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	May 2001: *Asian-American Heritage Month*
Date	Holiday	Observed by
5	Cinco de Mayo
24	Ascension Day	Roman Catholics Protestants
28	Memorial Day (observed)
	Shavuot*	Jews
31	Ascension Day	Eastern Orthodox Christians
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	June 2001
Date	Holiday	Observed by
3	Pentecost	Romans Catholics Protestants
4	Ma'uled Al-Nabi	Muslims
14	Flag Day	Americans
19	Juneteenth
24	Nativity of St. John the Baptist	Roman Catholics Protestants
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	July 2001
Date	Holiday	Observed by
1	Canada Day	Canadians
4	Independence Day	Americans
9	Martyrdom of the Bab*	Baha'i
24	Pioneer Day	Mormons
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* Jewish and Baja'i holidays begin at sunset the previous day.
†Hindu, Sikh and Jain holidays are calculated on a lunar calendar and are are observed at different times in different regions.

Light Our Candles gratefully acknowledges the National Conference for Community and Justice (http://www.nccj.org/nccj3.nsf/htmlmedia/organize.htm) for the origin of much of this information.


    Light Our Candles. (2000, July 31). Light Our Candles:
Kids Across the Globe [WWW document]. Light Our Candles. 
Leavenworth, KS: Saint Mary College. Retrieved Month #, 2000 
from the World Wide Web: 
https://lightourcandles.tripod.com/kids.html

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November 2000: National American Indian Heritage Month

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January 2001

February 2001: African-American Heritage Month

March 2001: National Women's History Month

April 2001

May 2001: Asian-American Heritage Month

June 2001

July 2001