Calendar of Events

This used to be a writing topic resource for Jellybean Junction. I've now opened it up for everyone to learn from. If you can you add to it, let me know! I'd love to get this calendar more multicultural.

A great site for holidays (AND one of my sources):

Brownielocks.com

Holidays are in alphabetical order - not chronological order - 'cause I'm funny like that.


JANUARY

55-MPH Speed Limit Day
Answer Your Cats Questions Day
Appreciate a Dragon Day
Belly Laugh Day
Better Business Communication Day
Bird Day
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
Celebration of Life Day
Champion of the Month Day
Chinese New Year (Sometime between January 21 - February 19)
Customer Service Day
Dimpled Chad Day
Epiphany or Twelfth Night
Freethinkers Day
Fruitcake Toss Day
Fun at Work Day
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
Holocaust Memorial Day
Humanitarian Day
Inane Answering Message Day
Inauguration Day
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
International Day of Radiant Peace
Islamic New Year Day
Judgment Day
Martin Luther King Day
National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
National Compliment Day
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
National Disc Jockey Day
National English Toffee Day
National Handwriting Day
National Hugging Day
National Joy Germ Day
National Peanut Brittle Day
National Pie Day
National Second Hand Wardrobe Day
National Seed Swap Day
National Speak Up and Succeed Day
National Write to Congress Day
New Years Day
Nothing Day
Organize Your Home Day
Penguin Awareness Day
Ratification Day
Religious Freedom Day
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
School Nurse Day
Show and Tell Day at Work
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
Solday
Squirrel Appreciation Day
Thank God It's Monday Day
Thomas Crapper Day
Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement
Tolkien Day
Trivia Day
Tub'Shvat
Vasant Panchmi
Women in Blue Jeans Day
Women's Healthy Weight Day
World Braille Day
World Leprosy Day
World Religion Day
Z Day

National Staying Healthy Month
National Thank You Month
National Hobby Month
Oatmeal Month

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/jan.htm


FEBRUARY

African American Coaches Day
Ash Wednesday
Bianca B (an author with Jellybean Junction and here)'s Birthday!
Bubble Gum Day
Candlemas/Imbolc
Chinese New Year (Sometime between January 21 - February 19)
Chocolate Mint Day
Clam Chowder Day
Curling is Cool Day
Darwin Day
Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
Employee Legal Awareness Day
Ferris Wheel Day
Four Chaplains Memorial Day
For Pete's Sake Day
Floral Design Day
Get a Different Name Day
Give Kids A Smile Day
Groundhog Day
Hedgehog Day
Hula in The Coola Day
International Mother Language Day
Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day
Iwo Jima Day
Inconvenience Yourself Day
International Pancake Day
Laugh and Get Rich Day
League of Women Voters Day
Liberace Day
Lupercalia
Man Day
Mardi Gras (Feb./March)
My Way Day
National Call in Single Day
National Condom Day
National Girls & Women in Sports Day
National Gum Drop Day
National PTA Founders Day
National Shut-in Visitation Day
National Women's Heart Day
Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
National Chili Day
National Tooth Fairy Day
Open That Bottle Night
Paczki Day
Plimsoll Day
Presidents Day
Quirky Alone Day
Race Relations Day
Robinson Crusoe Day
Safety Pup Day
Satisfied Staying Single Day
Single Tasking Day
Sint Piter (Friesland, a Netherlands state)
Spay Day USA
Spunky Old Broads Day
Susan B. Anthony Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
USO Day
Valentine’s Day
Wear Red Day
Women's Heart Health Day
Wave All Your Fingers At Your Neighbor's Day
Weatherperson's Day
Westminster Dog Show
White Shirt Day
World Human Spirit Day
World Marriage Day

Afro-American History Month
American History Month
International Friendship Month
Heart Association Month
Humpback Whale Awareness
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Embroidery Month

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/feb.htm


MARCH

Act Happy Day
As Young As You Feel Day
Awkward Moments Day
Beer Day
Be Positive - Do Something Day
Bunsen Burner Day
Campfire Girls Day
Day for Women's Rights & International Peace
Doctors Day
Dyngus Day
Easter (can be in March or April)
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
Freedom of Information Day
Genealogy Day
Get Over It Day
Girl Scout Day
Girls Write Now Day
Good Friday (can be in March or April – tied to Easter)
Good Samaritan Involvement Day
Grass Is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day
Greek Independence Day
Holikotsava
International Ask A Question Day
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day of Radiant Peace
International Day of the Seal
International Goof-off Day
International Working Women's Day
I Want You to Be Happy Day
Legal Assistants Day
Lips Appreciation Day
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
Maple Syrup Day
Mardi Gras (Feb./March)
Memory Day
Middle Name Pride Day
Namesake Day
Nametag Day
National Agriculture Day
National Anthem Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
National Common Courtesy Day
National Grammar Day
National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
National Quilting Day
National “She's Funny That Way” Day
Old Inauguration Day
Organize Your Home Office Day
Panic Day
Peace Corp Birthday
Pecan Day
Pencil Day
Pig Day
Purim
Shabbat Across America/Canada Day
Shrove Tuesday
Snowman Burning Day
Spring
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Urho's Day
United Nations-World Tuberculosis Day
World Day for Water
World Day of Prayer
World Down Syndrome Day
World Kidney Day
World Meteorological Day

Girl Scout Week
National Aardvark Week

American Red Cross Month
Music in Our Schools Month
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
New Year's Festival – Iran & Nigeria (Ibo people)
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Women’s History Month
Youth Art Month

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/mar.htm


APRIL

Administrative Professional’s Day or Secretary's Day
Anzac Day
Arbor Day
Astronomy Day
Auctioneers Day
Baby Massage Day
Barbershop Quartet Day
Blah! Blah! Blah! Day
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day
Children with Alopecia Day
Comic (Books) Day
Cubicle Day
Earth Day
Easter (can be in March or April)
Ellis Island Family History Day
Equal Pay Day
Ford Mustang Day
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Good Friday (can be in March or April – tied to Easter)
Hairstylists Appreciation Day
High Five Day
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
Hug an Australian Day
Husband Appreciation Day
Income Tax Pay Day
International Children's Book Day
International Day for Mine Awareness & Assistance in Mine Action
International “Louie Louie” Day
International Moment of Laughter Day
International Plant Appreciation Day
International Stress Awareness Day
Kick Butts Day
Kindergarten Day
Koninginnedag (The Netherlands) - April 30
Licorice Day
Mantanzas Mule Day
Mule Day
National Birding Day
National Dance Day
National Day of Hope
National Chocolate-covered Cashews Day
National Former POW (Prisoner of War) Recognition Day
National Fun Day
National Fun at Work Day
National Hairball Awareness Day
National Hanging Out Day
National Jelly Bean Day – April 22nd
National Love Our Children Day
National Sibling Day
National Teach Your Children to Save Day
National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day
New Year's Festival (Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand)
No Housework Day
Pan American Day
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Palm Sunday
Passover
Pet Owners Independence Day
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Red Hat Society Day
Reconciliation Day
Sense of Smell Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day
Take a Wild Guess Day
Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Tangible Karma Day
Teflon Day
That Sucks Day
Tomb Sweeping Day
US Air force Academy Day
Victims of Violence Holy Day
Walk on Your Wild Side Day
World Amateur Radio Day
World Book & Copyright Day
World Cow Chip Day
World Health Day
World Hemophilia Day
Yo-Yo Day

Astronomy Week
Big Brothers/Big Sisters Appreciation Week
Goodwill Week
National Library Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Volunteer Week
National YWCA Week
Reading is Fun Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of the Young Child
Young People's Poetry Week (third week)

Keep America Beautiful Month
Listen Awareness Month
Mathematics Education Month


Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/apr.htm


MAY

Ascension Day
Bevrijdingsdag (May 5) - (Liberation Day - Netherlands)
Cinco De Mayo
Clean Up Your Room Day
Dance Like a Chicken Day
Dodenherdenking (May 4) - remembrance of the victims of World War II and of peace missions after that time. (Netherlands)
Hakata Dontaku Festival
International Pickle Week
Law Day
May Day
Memorial Day
Mother’s Day
National Chocolate Chip Day
National Hamburger Day
National Teacher’s Day
No Socks Day
Peace Day
Whitsuntide (Netherlands - 10 days after Ascension Day)

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/may.htm


JUNE

Summer
Father’s Day
Family History Day
Flag Day
National Juggling Day
National Yo-Yo Day
Race Unity Day

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/june.htm


JULY

Answer Your Cat's Question Day
Canada Day
Don't Step on a Bee Day
Independence Day (Belgium)
Independence Day (France)
Independence Day (USA)
International Joke Day
World Population Day

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/july.htm

AUGUST

Family Day
National Aviation Day
National Lighthouse Day
National Night Out (help stop neighborhood crime)
Night of the Shooting Stars
Sister's Day
Women’s International Equality Day

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/aug.htm


SEPTEMBER

Labor Day
Fall
Sint Maarten - Netherlands
All American Breakfast Month
Baby Safety Month
Grandparents Day
Library Card Sign-up Month
National Chicken Month
National Courtesy Month
National Dog Week
National Farm Safety Week
National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Piano Month
Prinsjesdag - (Opening new parliamental year - Netherlands)
Religious Freedom Week
Self-Improvement Month
Women of Achievement Month
Yom Kippur


Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/sept.htm


OCTOBER


Columbus Day
Daylight Savings
Fall of the Berlin wall - Germany united
Halloween

National Children's Book Week

Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month
Campaign for Healthier Babies Month
Combat Asthma Awareness Month
Computer Learning Month
Energy Awareness Month
Family History Awareness Month
Hunger Awareness Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month
Polish American Heritage Month

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/oct.htm


NOVEMBER

All Saints Day
Thanksgiving (USA)
Election Day (USA)
Veterans Day

Latin American Week
National Children's Book Week

Aviation History Month
Child Safety and Protection Month
International Creative Child and Adult Month
International Doll Collectors Month
International Drum Month
Jewish Book Month

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/nov.htm


DECEMBER

Bill of Rights Day
Boxing Day
Christmas
Hanukkah
Humbug Day
Kwanzaa
National Flashlight Day
Santa Lucia - Sweden
Sinterklaas - Netherlands, Belgium

Tell Someone They're Doing a Good Job Week

Universal Human Rights Month

Check here for more!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/2470/dec.htm


This is not a complete list. If you have any additions, please do not hesitate to pass them on.


SOURCES: The above links, yahoo, google and my calendar.