Equality and Diversity Calendar 2019 - PA Housing · February LGBT History Month 1st World Hijab Day 2nd Candlemas –Christian Imbolc - Lughassad * - Wicca/Pagan 3rd Setsubun –Shinto

Equality and Diversity Calendar 2019

This calendar highlights significant days and festivals during 2019. The purpose of this calendar is to bring together key religious dates, awareness raising days and dates that recognise or celebrate diversity. This is a useful tool to assist in ensuring that planned events do clash with religious dates and that important awareness raising days are observed and planned for.

It is important to remember that people practice their faith in different ways and it is best not to make assumptions.

• Many Christians have congregational prayer on a Sunday.

• Jewish days begin and end at sunset, and Jewish festivals and holy days always commence a short time before

sunset and terminate at nightfall the following day – approximately a 25 hour period.

• The Muslim day is from sunset to sunset, Friday is a day of congregational prayer (usually after noon).

January National Braille Literacy Awareness Month

1st New Year’s Day/Hogmanay

Bank Holiday – UK & ROI

Feast of St. Basil - Orthodox Christian

2nd Bank Holiday – Scotland

4th World Braille Day

5th Twelfth Night – Christian

6th Epiphany – Christian

7th Orthodox Christmas Day

13th Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh – Sikhism

Baptism of the Lord Jesus – Christian

Bodhi Day – Buddhism

14th Seijin no hi (Coming of Age Day) – Shinto

Maghi – Sikhism

Orthodox New Year – Orthodox Christian

15th Makar Sankranti – Hinduism

Martin Luther King Day

19th Timkat – Ethiopian Orthodox Christian

20th World Religion Day

21st Mahayana New Year – Buddhism

Tu B’Shvat – Judaism

25th Robert Burns Night

27th Holocaust Memorial Day

31st Birthday of Guru Har Rai – Sikhism

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

1Bank Holiday (UK & ROI)

2Bank Holiday (Scotland)

3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31

BUDDHISM CHRISTIANITY ISLAM JUDAISM HINDUISM SIKHISM BAHÁ’Í

Religious dates with a * next to them usually begin at sundown the day before this date.

“Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge” – Louis Braille

February LGBT History Month

1st World Hijab Day

2nd Candlemas – Christian

Imbolc - Lughassad * - Wicca/Pagan

3rd Setsubun – Shinto

4th World Cancer Day

5th Chinese New Year

10th Vasant Panchami – Hinduism

Zacchaeus Sunday – Orthodox Christian

Autism Sunday

11th Our Lady of Lourdes - Christian

14th Saint Valentine’s Day – Christian

15th Parinirvana – Buddhism, Jainism

International Childhood Cancer Day

19th Magha Puja – Buddhism

20th – World Day of Social Justice

26th

Intercalary Days (start) – Baha’i


1World Hijab Day

2 3

4World Cancer Day

5Chinese New YearYear of the Pig

6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

18 19 20World Day of Social Justice

21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28



“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

– Mother Theresa

March International Women’s History Month

1st Zero Discrimination Day

Saint David's Day – Christian

Intercalary Days (end) – Baha’i

2nd Nineteen Day Fast* (start) – Baha’i

4th Maha Shivaratri – Hinduism

5th Shrove Tuesday – Christian

6th Ash Wednesday – Christian

7th New Year – Hinduism

8th International Women’s Day

11th Great Lent (start) – Orthodox Christian

17th Sunday of Orthodoxy – Orthodox Christian

Saint Patrick's Day – Christian

18th Bank Holiday – Northern Ireland & ROI

19th Saint Joseph’s Day – Christian

20th Spring Equinox

Nineteen Day Fast (end) – Baha’i

Fast of Esther – Judaism

21st Naw-Rúz (New Year)* - Baha’i

Purim* – Judaism

Holi * – Hinduism

22nd Hola Mohalla – Sikhism

World Water Day

31st Mothering Sunday

Daylight Saving Time starts


1Zero Discrimination Day

2 3

4 5 6 7 8International Women’s Day

9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

18Bank Holiday (Northern Ireland & ROI)

19 20 21 22World Water Day

23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31



“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

April Stress Awareness Month

2nd World Autism Awareness Day

3rd Lailat al Miraj * – Islam

7th World Health Day

14th Palm Sunday – Christian

Vaisakhi (New Year) – Sikhism

Rama Navami – Hinduism

17th Mahavir Jayanti – Jain

18th Birthday of Guru Tegh Bahadur – Sikhism

Birthday of Guru Angad Dev – Sikhism

Maundy Thursday – Christian

19th Good Friday – Christian

Fast of Firstborn – Judaism

Theravada New Year – Buddhism

Hanuman Jayanti – Hinduism

20th Pesach (Passover)* start – Judaism

Lazarus Saturday – Orthodox Christian

Holy Saturday – Christian

21st Easter Sunday – Christian

First Day of Ridvan * - Baha’I

Lailat al Bara’ah * - Islam

22nd Easter Monday – Bank Holiday

23rd Saint George’s Day – Christian

26th Good Friday – Orthodox Christian

27th Pesach (Passover) end – Judaism Holy Saturday – Orthodox Christian Great Lent (end) – Orthodox Christian

28th Pascha (Easter) – Orthodox Christian

29th Ninth Day of Ridvan * – Baha’i

Easter Monday – Orthodox Christian


1 2World Autism Awareness Day

3 4 5 6 7World Health Day

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22Bank Holiday UK and ROI

23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30



“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”– Gandhi

May Mental Health Awareness Month

1st Beltane – Wicca/Pagan

2nd Twelfth Day of Ridvan * – Baha’i

Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev – Sikhism

Holocaust Remembrance Day

(Yom HaShoah) *

6th Ramadan begins * - Islam

Bank Holiday – UK and ROI

7th Akshaya Tritiya – Hinduism, Jainism

8th World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

13th Our Lady of Fatima - Catholic Christian

15th International Day of Families

17th International Day against Homophobia,

Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT day)

19th Vesak – Buddha Day – Buddhism

21st World Day for Cultural Diversity for

Dialogue and Development

22nd International Day for Biological Diversity

23rd – Birthday of Guru Amar Das – Sikhism

Lag B’Omer * - Judaism

24th – Declaration of the Bab * – Baha’i

27th Spring Bank Holiday – UK and ROI

29th Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha’i

30th Ascension Day – Christian

31st – Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Power) – Islam

Quds Day * – Islam


1 2 3 4 5


7 8World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

9 10 11 12

13 14 15International Day of Families

16 17IDAHOBIT Day

18 19

20 21 22International Day for Biological Diversity

23 24 25 26


28 29 30 31



“Just because you are struggling doesn’t mean you’re falling.” – Nelson Mandela

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

- Oprah Winfrey


1Global Day of Parents

2

3Bank Holiday (ROI)

4 5World Environment Day

6 7 8 9

10 11 12World Day Against Child Labour

13 14World Blood Donor Day

15World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

16

17 18 19 20World Refugee Day

21World Humanist Day

22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

1st Global Day of Parents

3rd Bank Holiday – ROI

4th International Day of Innocent Children

Victims of Aggression

5th World Environment Day

Eid al-Fitr (Ramadan ends) * - Islam

6th Ascension Day – Orthodox Christian

9th Pentecost – Christian

9th – 10th Shavuot * – Judaism

10th Whit Monday – Christian

12th World Day Against Child Labour

14th World Blood Donor Day

15th World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

16th Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev - Sikhism

Father’s Day

Trinity Sunday – Christian

Pentecost – Orthodox Christian

20th World Refugee Day

Corpus Christi – Catholic Christian

21st Summer Solstice – Northern Hemisphere

World Humanist Day

24th Litha – Yule – Wicca/Pagan

Nativity of Saint John the Baptist – Christian

28th Feast of the Sacred Heart –

Catholic Christian

29th Feast of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

June Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month



“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” - Nelson Mandela

July National Make a Difference for Children Month

4th US Independence Day

5th Birthday of Guru Hargobind - Sikhism

9th Martyrdom of the Bab - Baha‘i

11th Saint Benedict Day - Christian

World Population Day

12th Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen’s Day)

Bank Holiday – Northern Ireland

15th World Youth Skills Day

16th Asalha Puja (Dharma Day) – Buddhism

18th Nelson Mandela International Day

21st Fast of 17 Tammuz * – Judaism

22nd Feast Day of Saint Mary - Christian

23rd Birthday of Guru Har Krishan - Sikhism

Birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie –

Rastafari

24th Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian

25th Saint James the Great Day – Christian

28th World Hepatitis Day

30th International Friendship Day

World Day against Trafficking in Persons


1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11World Population Day

12Bank Holiday (Northern Ireland)

13 14

15World Youth Skills Day

16 17 18 19 20 21

22 2324 25 26 27 28

World Hepatitis Day

29 30World Day against Trafficking in Persons

31



“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and

there is strength.” - Maya Angelou

August National Breastfeeding Month

1st Lammas - Christian

Lughnassadh - Imbolc - Wicca/Pagan

5th Summer Bank Holiday – Scotland & ROI

9th International Day of the World's IndigenousPeoples

11th Waqf al Arafa * – Islam

Tish’a B’AV (Fast of 9 Av) – Judaism

12th International Youth Day

12th – 15th Eid al-Adha * - Islam

15th Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary –Catholic Christian

Dormition of the Theotokos –Orthodox Christian

Raksha Bandhan – Hinduism

19th World Humanitarian Day

24th Krishna Janmashtami – Hinduism

26th Summer Bank Holiday –England, Wales and Northern Ireland

27th – 3rd Paryushan Parva – Jain

29th Beheading of Saint John the Baptist -Christian

31st Al-Hijra/Muharram -New Year* – Islam


1 2 3 4

5Bank Holiday (Scotland & ROI)

6 7 8 9Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

10 11

12International Youth Day

13 14 15 16 17 18

19World Humanitarian Day

20 21 22 23 24 25


27 28 29 30 31



“ The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” – Aristotle


1

2 3 4 5International Day of Charity

6 7 8International Literacy Day

9 10World Suicide

Prevention

Day

11 12Ethiopian

New Year’s

Day

13 14 15International Day of Democracy

16 17 18 19 20 21World

Alzheimer's

Day

22

23Autumn

Equinox

24 25 26 27 28 29

30

2nd Ganesh Chaturthi – Hinduism

5th International Day of Charity

8th Nativity of Virgin Mary – Christian

International Literacy Day

10th Ashura * – Islam

World Suicide Prevention Day

12th Ethiopian New Year’s Day - Rastafari

Anant Chaturdashi – Jain

14th The Triumph of the Cross – Christian

15th International Day of Democracy

21st International Day of Peace

World Alzheimer's Day

23rd Autumn Equinox

27th Meskel – Ethiopian Orthodox Christian

Elevation of the Holy Cross –Orthodox Christian

29th Michaelmas – Christian

29th – 8th Navaratri – Hinduism

30th - 1st Rosh Hashanah * – Judaism

September Older Persons’ Month



“Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.”

October Black History Month

1st International Day of Older Persons

2nd Fast of Gedaliah - Judaism

Feast of the Guardian Angels – Christian

International Day of Non-Violence

4th Saint Francis Day - Christian

7th Dussehra – Hinduism

9th Birthday of Guru Ram Das – Sikhism

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) * - Judaism

10th World Mental Health Day

14th – 20th Sukkot (Tabernacles) * - Judaism

16th World Food Day

17th International Day for the Eradication of

Poverty

18th Saint Luke, Apostle & Evangelist –Christian

21st Shmini Atzeret (8th Day of Assembly) *

- Judaism

22nd Simchat Torah (Celebration of the Torah)

- Judaism

27th Diwali/Deepavali – Hinduism

Bandi Chhor Divas – Sikhism

British Summer Time ends

28th Bank Holiday – ROI

29th Birth of the Báb * – Baha’I

30th Birth of Baha’u’llah * - Baha’i

31st All Hallows' Eve (Halloween) – Christian


1International Day of Older Persons

2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10World Mental Health Day

11 12 13

14 15 16World Food Day

17Int. Day for the Eradication of Poverty

18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28Bank Holiday

(ROI)

29 30 31



“ Education is the best provision for old age”. – Clint Eastwood.

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes

a difference.” – Jane Goodall

November Men’s Health Awareness Month

1st All Saints' Day – Christian

2nd All Soul’s Day – Christian

Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I – Rastafari

5th Guy Fawkes Night

10th Mawlid al-Nabi - Islam

Remembrance Sunday

11th Armistice Day

12th Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev – Sikhism

13th World Kindness Day

14th World Diabetes Day

19th International Men’s Day

20th Transgender Day of Remembrance

Universal Children Day

21st Presentation of the Theotokos– Orthodox Christian

24th Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur - Sikhism

Feast of Christ the King – Christian

25th International Day for the Elimination ofViolence against Women

26th Day of the Covenant * - Baha’i

28th Nativity Fast begins - Orthodox Christian

Thanksgiving Day – Interfaith USA

Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha * – Baha’i

30th Saint Andrew's Day – Christian


1 2 3

4 5Guy Fawkes Night

6 7 8 9 10

11Armistice Day

12 13World Kindness Day

14World Diabetes Day

15 16 17

18 19International Men’s Day

20Transgender

Day of

Remembrance

21 22 23 24

25 Day for

Elimination of

Violence

against Women

26 27 28 29 30



“Life is about celebrating uniqueness, diversity, and then bringing it all together like

the varied colours of a rainbow. Different yet connected.”

December Universal Human Rights Month

1st World AIDS Day

Advent Sunday - Christian

2nd International Day of the Abolition of

Slavery

Saint Andrews Day – Bank Holiday

(Scotland)

3rd International Day of Persons withDisabilities

6th Saint Nicholas Day – Christian

8th Feast of the Immaculate Conception- Christian

9th International Anti-Corruption Day

10th Human Rights Day

20th International Human Solidarity Day

21st Yule – Christian

Yule - Litha * - Wicca/Pagan

Northern and Southern hemispheres

22nd Winter Solstice

22nd – 29th Chanukah – Judaism

24th Christmas Eve – Christian

25th Christmas Day – Christian

26th Boxing Day

Bank Holiday - UK & ROI

Saint Stephen’s Day – Christian

28th Holy Innocents – Christian

29th Feast of the Holy Family –Catholic Christian

31st Hogmanay/ New Year’s Eve


1World AIDS Day

2Bank Holiday (Scotland)

3Day of Persons with Disabilities

4 5 6 7 8

9Anti-Corruption Day

10Human Rights Day

11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20Human Solidarity Day

21 22

23 24 25 26Bank Holiday (UK & ROI)

27 28 29

30 31New Year’s Eve



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Equality and Diversity Calendar 2019 - PA Housing · February LGBT History Month 1st World Hijab Day 2nd Candlemas –Christian Imbolc - Lughassad * - Wicca/Pagan 3rd Setsubun –Shinto