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78158 Diversity Calendar.Indd A Partial Listing of Religious, Ethnic and Civic Observances Academic Year 2014-15 2014 Independence Day (U.S.) July 4 Martyrdom of the Bab (Bahá’í) July 9 *Fast of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz (Jewish) July 15 *Lailat al Kadr (Islamic) July 23 *Quds Day (Islamic) July 25 *Rosh Chodesh Av (Jewish) July 28 *Eid al-Fitr (Islamic) July 29 Lammas (Pagan/Wiccan) August 1 *Tisha B’Av (Jewish) August 5 Raksha Bandhan (Hindu, Jainism) August 10 *Rosh Chodesh Elul (Jewish) August 26 Ganesh Chaturdhi (Hindu) August 29 Labor Day (U.S.) September 1 *Rosh Hashanah/Jewish New Year September 25-26 *Tzom Gedaliah (Jewish) September 28 Devi Navaratri (Hindu) Sept. 29 - Oct. 3 Chong Yang (China) October 2 *Waqf al Arafa (Islamic) October 3 Vijayadashmi (Hindu) October 3 *Eid al-Adha (Islamic) October 4 Dassehra/Dussehra (Hindu) October 4 *Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement (Jewish) October 4 *Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) (Jewish) October 9-15 Karva Chauth (Buddhist, Hindu) October 11 Cirio de Nazare (Brazil) October 12 Columbus Day (U.S.) October 13 *Hosha’anah Rabah (Jewish) October 15 *Shemini Atzeret (Jewish) October 16 *Simchat Torah (Jewish) October 17 Birth of the Bab (Bahá’í) October 20 Diwali (Buddhist, Hindu, Sikhism, Jainism) October 23 Muharram/Islamic New Year October 24 All Hallows Eve/Halloween October 31 Samhain (Pagan/Wiccan) October 31 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 Bunka No Hi (Japan) November 3 *Ashura (Islamic) November 4 Veterans’ Day (U.S.) November 11 Birth of Baha’u’llah (Bahá’í) November 12 Shichigosan Matsuri (Shinto) November 15 Day of the Covenant (Bahá’í) November 26 Th anksgiving (U.S.) November 27 Sundays of Advent (Christian) November 30 Bodhi Day (Buddhist, Hindu) December 8 Feast Day — Our Lady of Guadalupe (Latin America) December 12 Las Posadas (Mexico) December 16 - 24 *Chanukah/Hanukkah (Jewish) December 17 - 24 Winter Solstice/Yule (Pagan, International) December 22 *Rosh Chodesh Tevet (Jewish) December 22 Christmas (Christian) December 25 Kwanzaa (African American) December 26 - Jan 1 2015 *Asarah B’Tevet (Jewish) January 1 Japanese New Year January 1 New Year’s Day (U.S., International) January 1 Shogatsu (Shinto New Year) January 1 *Mawlid al-Nabi (Islamic) January 3 Dia de los Santos Reyes/Th ree Kings Day (Latin America) January 6 Epiphany (Christian) January 6 Makar Sankranti (Hindu) January 14 Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. (U.S.) January 19 Imbolc/Imbolg (Pagan, Wiccan) February 2 DIVERSITY *Tu B’Shevat (Jewish) February 4 National Founding Day (Shinto) February 11 Presidents’ Day (U.S.) February 16 is the key to global success Workshops and programs that address Maha Shivaratri (Hindu) February 17 diversity issues are available for faculty, Ash Wednesday/Lent begins (Christian) February 18 Chinese New Year February 19 staff and students. The Diversity Resource International Mother Language Day (International) February 21 www.purdue.edu/dro Offi ce also administers the DiversiKey Clean Monday/Lent begins (Orthodox Christian) February 23 Program, which prepares students to be Hinamatsuri (Japan) March 3 765-494-7307 active and responsible members in their *Fast of Esther (Jewish) March 4 local and global communities. *Purim (Jewish) March 5 Holi (Hindu) March 6 *Shushan Purim (Jewish) March 6 St. Patrick’s Day (Christian) March 17 August 2014 September 2014 October 2014 *Rosh Chodesh Nisan (Jewish) March 21 Nowruz (Iranian New Year) March 21 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 Palm Sunday (Christian) March 29 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mahavir Jayanti (Jainism) April 2 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Good Friday (Christian) April 3 Holy Saturday (Orthodox Christian) April 4 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 *Passover/Pesach (Jewish) April 4-11 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian) April 5 Easter (Christian) April 5 31 Great Friday (Orthodox Christian) April 10 Great and Holy Pascha (Orthodox Christian) April 12 November 2014 December 2014 January 2015 *Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (Jewish) April 16 *Yom Ha’atzmaut (Jewish) April 23 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 Beltane (Pagan/Wiccan) May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Cinco de Mayo (Mexican/Mexican-American) May 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Tango no Sekku (Shinto) May 5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 *Lag B’Omer (Jewish) May 7 *Lailat al Miraj/Shab-E-Miraj (Islamic) May 15 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 *Yom Yerushalayim (Jewish) May 17 30 *Rosh Chodesh Sivan (Jewish) May 19 *Declaration of the Bab (Bahá’í) May 23 February 2015 March 2015 April 2015 Pentecost (Christian) May 24 *Shavuot (Jewish) May 24-25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 Memorial Day (U.S.) May 25 *Ascension of the Baha’u’llah (Bahá’í) May 29 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Lailat al Bara’a/ Shab-E-Barat (Islamic) June 1 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 *Rosh Chodesh Tammuz (Jewish) June 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 *Ramadan (Islamic) June 18 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 Summer Solstice/Litha/Midsummer (Pagan, Wiccan) June 21 Independence Day (U.S.) July 4 *Fast of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz (Jewish) July 5 May 2015 June 2015 July 2015 *Martyrdom of the Bab (Bahá’í) July 9 *Lailat al Kadr (Islamic) July 13 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 *Rosh Chodesh Av (Jewish) July 17 *Quds Day (Islamic) July 17 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 *Eid al-Fitr (Islamic) July 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 *Tisha B’Av (Jewish) July 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Lammas (Pagan/Wiccan) August 1 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 *Rosh Chodesh Elul (Jewish) August 15 Raksha Bandhan (Hindu, Jainism) August 29 31 A Partial Listing of Religious, Ethnic and Civic Observances — Academic Year 2014-15 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.
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