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A Partial Listing of Religious, Ethnic and Civic Observances 2017 New Year’s Day (U.S., International) January 1 Japanese New Year January 1 Shogatsu (Shinto New Year) January 1-3 Dia de los Santos Reyes/Th ree Kings Day (Latin America) January 6 Epiphany (Christian) January 6 *Asarah B’Tevet (Jewish) January 8 Makar Sankranti (Hindu) January 14 Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (U.S.) January 16 Chinese New Year January 28 ______________________________________________________________ Imbolc/Imbolg (Pagan, Wiccan) February 2 *Tu B’Shevat (Jewish) February 11 National Foundation Day (Shinto) February 11 Presidents’ Day (U.S.) February 20 International Mother Language Day (International) February 21 Maha Shivaratri (Hindu) February 24 Clean Monday/Lent begins (Orthodox Christian) February 27 ______________________________________________________________ Ash Wednesday/Lent begins (Christian) March 1 Hinamatsuri (Japan) March 3 Ta’anit Esther (Jewish) March 9 *Purim (Jewish) March 12 Holi (Hindu) March 13 *Shushan Purim (Jewish) March 13 St. Patrick’s Day (Christian) March 17 Nowruz (Iranian New Year) March 20 *Rosh Chodesh Nisan (Jewish) March 28 ______________________________________________________________ Mahavir Jayanti (Jainism) April 8 Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian) April 9 Palm Sunday (Christian) April 9 *Passover/Pesach (Jewish) April 11-18 Great Friday (Orthodox Christian) April 14 Good Friday (Christian) April 14 Holy Saturday (Orthodox Christian) April 15 Easter (Christian) April 16 Great and Holy Pascha (Orthodox Christian) April 16 *Lailat al Miraj/Shab-E-Miraj (Islamic) April 23 *Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (Jewish) April 24 ______________________________________________________________ Beltane (Pagan/Wiccan) May 1 *Yom Ha’atzmaut (Jewish) May 2 Cinco de Mayo (Mexican/Mexican-American) May 5 Tango no Sekku (Shinto) May 5 Lailat al Bara’a/ Shab-E-Barat (Islamic) May 11 *Lag B’Omer (Jewish) May 14 *Declaration of the Bab (Bahá’í) May 23 *Yom Yerushalayim (Jewish) May 24 *Rosh Chodesh Sivan (Jewish) May 26 *Ramadan (Islamic) May 27 - June 25 *Ascension of the Baha’u’llah (Bahá’í) May 28 Memorial Day (U.S.) May 29 *Shavuot (Jewish) May 31 - June 1 ______________________________________________________________ Pentecost (Christian) June 4 Summer Solstice/Litha/Midsummer (Pagan, Wiccan) June 21 *Lailat al Kadr (Islamic) June 21 *Quds Day (Islamic) June 23 *Rosh Chodesh Tammuz (Jewish) June 24 *Eid al-Fitr (Islamic) June 25 ______________________________________________________________ Independence Day (U.S.) July 4 *Martyrdom of the Bab (Bahá’í) July 9 *Fast of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz (Jewish) July 11 *Rosh Chodesh Av (Jewish) July 24 DIVERSITY ______________________________________________________________ Lammas (Pagan/Wiccan) August 1 is the key to global success *Tisha B’Av (Jewish) August 1 Workshops and programs that address Raksha Bandhan (Hindu, Jainism) August 7 *Rosh Chodesh Elul (Jewish) August 22 diversity issues are available for faculty, Ganesh Chaturdhi (Hindu) August 25 staff and students. The Diversity Resource *Waqf al Arafa (Islamic) August 31 www.purdue.edu/dro Offi ce also administers the DiversiKey ______________________________________________________________ Program, which prepares students to be *Eid al-Adha (Islamic) September 1 765-494-7307 Labor Day (U.S.) September 4 active and responsible members in their *Rosh Hashanah/Jewish New Year September 21 -22 local and global communities. Devi Navaratri (Hindu) September 21 - 30 Muharram/Islamic New Year September 22 *Tzom Gedaliah (Jewish) September 24 January 2017 February 2017 March 2017 SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S Vijayadashmi (Hindu) September 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Dassehra/Dussehra (Hindu) September 30 *Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement (Jewish) September 30 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ______________________________________________________________ 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 *Ashura (Islamic) October 1 *Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) (Jewish) October 5-6 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Cirio de Nazare (Brazil) October 8 29 30 31 26 27 28 26 27 28 29 30 31 Karva Chauth (Buddhist, Hindu) October 8 Columbus Day (U.S.) October 9 *Hosha’anah Rabah (Jewish) October 11 *Shemini Atzeret (Jewish) October 12 April 2017 May2017 June 2017 *Simchat Torah (Jewish) October 13 SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 Diwali (Buddhist, Hindu, Sikhism, Jainism) October 19 *Birth of the Bab (Bahá’í) October 21 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 *Birth of the Baha’u’llah (Bahá’í) October 22 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Chong Yang (China) October 28 All Hallows Eve/Halloween October 31 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ______________________________________________________________ 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 *Samhain (Pagan/Wiccan) November 1 30 All Saints’ Day (Christian) November 1 Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) (Latin America) November 1 All Souls’ Day (Roman Catholic) November 2 July2017 August 2017 September 2017 Bunka No Hi (Japan) November 3 SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S Veterans’ Day (U.S.) November 10 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 Shichigosan Matsuri (Shinto) November 15 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Th anksgiving (U.S.) November 23 Day of the Covenant (Bahá’í) November 25 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ______________________________________________________________ 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 *Mawlid al-Nabi (Islamic) December 1 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Sundays of Advent (Christian) December 3 30 31 Bodhi Day (Buddhist, Hindu) December 8 Feast Day — Our Lady of Guadalupe (Latin America) December 12 *Chanukah/Hanukkah (Jewish) December 13 - 20 October 2017 November 2017 December 2017 Las Posadas (Mexico) December 16 - 24 SMTW T F S SMTW T F S SMTW T F S *Rosh Chodesh Tevet (Jewish) December 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 Winter Solstice/Yule (Pagan, International) December 21 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Christmas (Christian) December 25 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Kwanzaa (African American) December 26 - January 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 *Many Islamic and Jewish observances begin at sundown on the evening 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 preceding the noted date. 31 A Partial Listing of Religious, Ethnic and Civic Observances — 2017 Advent: The Christian church year begins with Advent (from the Latin adventus International Mother Language Day: Originated as the international Presidents’ Day: Began with the passage of Public Law 90-363 in 1968, moving meaning “coming” or “arrival”). Advent is also a time when Christians prepare to recognition of Language Movement Day. The day has been commemorated in Bangladesh the legal observance of George Washington’s birthday from Feb. 22 to the third celebrate the birth of Christ. Advent begins on the Sunday nearest Nov. 30 (St. Andrew’s (formerly East Pakistan) since 1952, when the East Pakistani police and army in Dhaka killed a Monday in February. Since Abraham Lincoln’s birthday came on Feb. 12, many states Day) and lasts until Christmas Eve. number of Bangladeshi university students. combine the two into Presidents’ Day. All Saints’ Day: A Christian holy day observed by many Western churches on Nov. Kwanzaa: Kwanzaa from the Kiswahili word meaning “fi rst fruits,” is an African- American Ramadan: The most sacred holiday of the Muslim year, mandated by the Qur’an 1 and by Eastern churches on the fi rst Sunday after Pentecost. The day now honors all cultural festival beginning on Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 1. The festival was the creation in 1966 (2:183). It occurs in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is the holy month saints of the church, even those not known by name. of Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga, who sought to establish a holiday that would facilitate African- of fasting. Fasting is considered to be the third pillar of religious obligation of Islam. American goals of building a strong family, learning about African-American history and Ramadan is a time of worship, reading the Qur’an, charitable acts and the purifi cation All Souls’ Day: A Christian holy day commemorating the faithful departed or developing unity. of individual behavior. Also the time in which the Qur’an was revealed to Mohammad those baptized Christians believed to be in purgatory. It is celebrated on Nov. 2 except as guidance for the people. when the date falls on a Sunday, in which case All Souls’ Day is celebrated on Nov. 3. Las Posadas: Las Posadas is a traditional Mexican festival that reenacts the journey of Mary and Joseph from Nazareth to Bethlehem and their search for a “room at the inn.” Each Rosh Hashanah: A solemn celebration of the beginning of the Jewish year.