Ethnic Holidays 2010
Jan 1 - New Year's Day (Western)
Jan 1 - Shogatsu (Shinto)
Jan 1 - Emancipation Day (African-American, United States)
Jan 1 - Feast of St. Basil (Christian, Orthodox)
Jan 1 - New Year (Western Christian)
Jan 5 - Guru Gobind Singh's Birthday (Sikh)
Jan 6 - Epiphany (Christian & Orthodox)
Jan 6 - Three Kings' Day (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic)
Jan 7 - Christmas Day (Orthodox)
Jan 7 - Koshogatsu (Shinto)
Jan 13 - Lohri (Hindu)
Jan 14 - Makar Sankranti (Hindu)
Jan 14 - New Year's Day (Tamil)
Jan 15 - Seljin-no-hi (shinto)
Jan 15 - Thiruvalluvar (Tamil)
Jan 16 - Uzhavar Thirunal (Tamil
Jan 17 - World Religion Day (Bahai)
Jan 20 - Saraswati Puja (Hindu)
Jan 26 - India Republic Day
Jan 30 - Tu B'Shevat (Jewish)
Jan 31 - Birthday of Guru Har Rai Sahib (Hindu)
Feb 1 - Fisrt day of National Black History Month (United States)
Feb 1 - Fisrt day of Ethnic Equality Month
Feb 2 - Imbolc (Wiccan)
Feb 2 - candlemas (Christian)
Feb 3 - Setsubun Sai (Shinto)
Feb 4 - Rosa Parks Birth Anniversary
Feb 5 - Mexico - Constitution Day
Feb 11 - National Foundation Day (Japan)
Feb 12 - Maha shivaratri (Hindu)
Feb 13-17 - Brazil, Carnival
Feb 14 - Chinese New Year of the Tiger (Confucian, Taoist & Buddhist)
Feb 15 - Nirvana Day (Buddhist)
Feb 15 - Great Lent (Orthodox Christian)
Feb 16 - Mardi Gras (United States)
Feb 17 - League of United Latin Citizens (LULAC) Founded American
Feb 17 - Ash Wednesday (Christian)
Feb 17 - Toshigol (Shinto)
Feb 19 - Epiphanie (Orthodox Christian)
Feb 24 - Flag Day (Mexico)
Feb 26 - Mawlid an Nabi (Muslim)
Feb 28 - Purim (Jewish)
Feb 28 Butter Lamp Festival (Tibet)
Mar 1 - First Day of Greek-American Heritage Month
Mar 1 - First Day of Irish-American Heritage Month
Mar 1 - First Day of Spiritual Wellness Month
Mar 1 - Holi (Hindu)
Mar 2 - Holla Mohalla (Sikh)
Mar 2 - Mothering Sunday (England)
Mar 5 - World Day of Prayer
Mar 5 - Birthday of Lao- Tzu (Taoist)
Mar 14 - Nanakshahi (Sikh)
Mar 16 - Vaisaki (Hindu)
Mar 17 - St. Patrick's Day(Ireland, United States)
Mar 19 - Death of Guru Hargobind Sahib (Sikh)
Mar 20 - Ostara & Mabo (Wicca)
Mar 21 - Naw Ruz (Baha'i, Persia)
Mar 21 - New Year's Day (India)
Mar 21 - Honoring the Shen (Taoist)
Mar 21 - Shunki Korei sai (Shinto)
Mar 24 - Ramanavami (Hindu)
Mar 25 - Feast of Annunciation (Christian)
Mar 26-30 - Paro Tsechu (Buddhist)
Mar 28 - Palm Sunday (Christian & Orthodox Christian)
Mar 28 - Khordad Sal (Zoroastrian)
Mar 29 - Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)
Mar 30 - Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu)
Mar 30 - Magha Puja Day (Buddhist)
Mar 30-31 Pessach (Jewish)
Apr 1 - maundy Thursday (Christian)
Apr 2 - Good Friday (Protestant, Roman Catholic)
Apr 4 - Easter (Protestant, Roman Catholic & Orthodox Christian)
Apr 4 - Easter Monday (Roman Catholic)
Apr 6 - National Tartan Day (Scottish-American)
Apr 6 - Organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Apr 8 - Vesak - Buddha's Birth (Buddhist)
Apr 8 - Hana Matsuri (shinto)
Apr 8 - Passover (Jewish)
Apr 11 - Yom HaSho'Ah (Jewish)
Apr 14 - Sinhala and Tamil New Year (Sri Lanka)
Apr 14 - Day of Sikh Khalsa (Sikh)
Apr 16 - Deaths of Guru Angad Dev sahib & Guru Har Krishan Sahib (Sikh)
Apr 17 - Akshay Tritiya (Jain)
Apr 18 - Birthdays of Guru Angad Dev Sahib & Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib
Apr 19 - Yom Ha' Atzmaut (Jewish)
Apr 21 - 1st day of Ridvan (Bahai)
Apr 28 - Theravadin (Buddhist)
Apr 29 - 9th day of Ridvan (Bahai)
Apr 23 - St. George's Day (English)
May 1 - First Day of Asian Pacific American History Month
May 1 - First Day of Jewish-American Heritage Month
May 1 - Beltane & Samhain (Wicca)
May 2 - Lag B'Omer (Jewish)
May 2 - 12th Day of Ridvan (Bahai)
May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)
May 13 - Ascension of Christ Day (Christian)
May 16-24 Lotus Lantern Festival (Buddhist)
May 18 - Yom Ha'Atzma'Ut (Israel)
May 19 - Birthday of Malcolm X
May 19-20 - Shavuot (Jewish)
May 23 - Whit Sunday - Pentecost (Christian)
May 23 - Birthday of Guru Amar Das Sahib (Sikh)
May 23 - Declaration of the Bab (Bahai)
May 24 - Whit Monday - Pentecost (Roman Catholic)
May 27 - Visakha Puja (Buddhist)
May 29 - Ascencion of Baha'u'llah (Bahai)
May 30 - All Saints (Orthodox Christian)
Jun 3 - Corpus Christi (Roman Catholic)
Jun 11 - Acession of Guru Hargobind Sahib (Sikh)
Jun 14 - Maori New Year: Matariki Festival (Maori)
Jun 15 - Suijin Matsuri (Shinto)
Jun 16 - Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjan Dev Sahib (Sikh)
Jun 18-20 - Red Earth Festival (Native American)
Jun 19 - Juneteent
Jun 21 - Shang-Ti Festival (Taoist)
Jun 21 - Litha & yule (Wicca)
Jun 21 - First Nation Day (Canadian Native People)
Jun 22 - Inti Raymi (Mezo American)
Jun 27 - Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Jun 29 - St Peter & St Paul (Christian)
Jun 30 - Oharai (Shinto)
Jul 1 - Canada Day (Canada)
Jul 4 - Fil-American Friendship Day (Phillippines, United States)
Jul 7 - Birthday of Guru Hargobind Sahib (Sikh)
Jul 7 - Tanaba (Shinto)
Jul 8-9 - Lailat al Miraj (Islam)
Jul 9 - Martyrdom of the Bab (Baha'i)
Jul 13 - Bon Festival/Feast of Lanterns (Japan)
Jul 13-15 - Ulambana (Buddhist)
Jul 20 - Tisha B'Av (Jewish)
Jul 23 - Birthday of Guru Har Krishan Sahib (Sikh)
Jul 24 - Pioneer Day (Mormon)
Jul 26 - Lailat al Bara'ah (Islam)
Jul 26 - Asalha Puja Day (Buddhist)
Jul 31 - Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola (Spain, Roman Catholic)
Aug 1 - Lammas & Lughnassad (Wicca)
Aug 1 - Holy Mother of Lord Jesus (Orthodox Christian)
Aug 6 - Transfiguration of the Lord (Orthodox Christian)
Aug 11-12 - Begin of Ramadan (Islam)
Aug 15 - Pakistan's Independence Day
Aug 15 - Assumption of Mary (Roman Catholic)
Aug 15 - India's Independence Day
Aug 15 - Liberation Day (Korea, South Korea)
Aug 24 - Raksha Bandhan (Hindu)
Sep 1 - Israel Miraji Ascent of Prophet Muhammad (Islam)
Sep 1 - Begin of the Ecclesiastical Year (Orthodox Christian)
sep 1 - First consecration of the Adi Granth (Sikh)
sep 2 - Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu)
Sep 5-11 - Paryusana (Jain)
Sep 8-10 - Rosh Hashanah (Jewish)
Sep 10-11 - Eid-Al-Fitr (Islamic)
Sep 11 - Ganesa Chaturthi (Hindu)
Sep 11 - enkutatash (Rastafarian)
Sep 12 - Paryushana (Jain)
Sep 15-Oct 15 - National Hispanic Heritage Month (Mexico)
Sep 16 - Mexico's Independence Day
Sep 16-17 - Lailat-Ul-Quadr (Islamic)
Sep 16 - Deaths of Guru Amar Das Sahib & Guru Ram Das Sodhi Sahib (Sikh)
Sep 18 - Yom Kippur (Jewish)
Sep 19 - San Gennaro Day (Italian-American)
Sep 22 - Autumnal Equinox (Japan)
Sep 22 - Death of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib (Sikh)
Sep 23 - Mabon & Ostara (Wicca)
Sep 23 - Festival of the Shen of Wind (Taoist)
Sep 23 - Shuki-Korei-Sai (Shinto)
Sep 27 - Meskel (Rastafarian)
Sep 28 - Birthday of Confucius (Taoist)
Sep 30 - Shemini Atzeret (Jewish)
Oct 1 - 1st Day of German-American Heritage Month
Oct 1 - 1st Day of National Italian-American Heritage Month
oct 1 - 1st Day of Polish-American Heritage Month
Oct 1 - Simchat Torah (Jewish)
Oct 8-16 Navaratri (Hindu)
Oct 9 - Birthday of Guru Ram Das Sodhi Sahib (Sikh)
Oct 10 - Cirio De Nazare (Brazil)
Oct 11 - Thanksgiving (Canada)
Oct 15-22 Navapad Oli (Jain)
Oct 17 - Shukaku Matsuri (Shinto)
Oct 17 - Dasera (Hindu)
Oct 20 - Adi Granth day (Sikh)
Oct 20 - Death of Guru Har Rai Sahib (Sikh)
Oct 20 - Birthday of the Bab (Bahai)
Oct 21 - Death of Guru Gobin Rai Singh Sahib (Sikh)
Oct 31 - Reformation Day (Protestant Christian)
Oct 31 - All Hallows Eve (Christian)
Nov 1 - 1st Day of National American Indian Heritage Month
Nov 1 - All Saints' Day (Christian, Roman Catholic)
Nov 1 - Dia de los Muertos "Day of the Dead" (Mexico, Latin America)
Nov 1 - Samhain & Beltane (Wicca)
Nov 2 - All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic)
Nov 5 - Diwali (Hindu, Jain & Sikh)
Nov 6 - Death of Mahavira Vardhamana (Jain)
Nov 12 - Birthday of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i)
Nov 15-17 - Eid al-adha (Islamic)
Nov 21 - Birthday of Guru Nanak (Sikh)
Nov 21 - Christ The King (Christian)
Nov 25 - Thanksgiving (USA)
Nov 26 - Day of Covenant (Bahai)
Nov 30 - St Andrew's Day (Christian)
Dec 1-9 - Hanukkha (Jewish)
Dec 1 - Sutjin Matsuri (Shinto)
Dec 6 - St. Nicholas Day (International)
Dec 7 - Al Hijra (Islam)
Dec 8 - Bodhi Day (Buddhist)
Dec 8 - Immaculate Conception of Mary (Roman Catholic)
Dec 12 - Virgin of Guadalupe (Mexico)
Dec 13 - Santa Lucia Day (Sweden)
Dec 16 - ashura (Islamic)
Dec 18 - Muharram (Islamic)
Dec 16-25 - Las Posadas (Mexico)
Dec 21 - Zarathosht Disco (Zoroastrian)
Dec 21 - Yule & Litha (Wicca)
Dec 22 - Tohji-Taisai (Shinto)
Dec 25 - Christmas (Christian, Roman Catholic, International)
Dec 26 - Boxing Day (Canada, United Kingdom)
Dec 26 - Kwanzaa (African-American)
Dec 26 - Feast of the Holy Family (Roman Catholic)
Dec 31 - Hoarai (Shinto)
Dec 31 - Watch Night (Christian)
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