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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
created especially for you by
January 2017
UN International Year of
Sustainable Tourism
for Development
1 New Year’s Day
2 Lendemain du Jour
de l'An (QC) 3
4 PERIHELION*
5 1st QUARTER
6 Epiphany
Cyclemas ends** 7 Orthodox Christmas Day
8 9
10
11
12 FULL MOON
13
14 Orthodox New Year
15
16
17 World Religions Day***
18 Martin Luther King’s
birthday (1929-1968) 19 3rd QUARTER
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27 NEW MOON
International
Holocaust
Remembrance Day
(UN)
28 Chinese New Year
29
30
31 moons are Eastern time (North America) �
* http://www.windows2universe.org
** http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/cyclemas2.html
*** http://wheeloftheyear.com
Much of the information for this calendar came from
http://www.timeanddate.com, an awesome site!
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February 2017
1
2 Groundhog Day
3 1st QUARTER
4 Rosa Parks Day*
5
6
7
8
9
10 FULL MOON
PENUMBRAL LUNAR
ECLIPSE
(5:36 - 9:53 pm EST)
11 Tu B'Shevat
(Arbor Day)
12
13 World Radio Day (UN)
Family Day (BC) 14 Valentine’s Day
15
16
17
18 3rd QUARTER
19
20 World Day of Social
Justice (UN)
Family Day
(AB, ON, SK)
21
22 23
24
25
26
27
28 NEW MOON
Mardi Gras
* http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/rosa-parks-day
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March 2017
* http://zdayglobal.org
** https://www.thevenusproject.com/en
*** http://und.edu/org/earthday/earth_day_origin.htm
**** http://www.earthhour.org
Look for Seedy Saturday &
Sunday events in your area
t h r o u g h o u t t h i s m o n t h
1 Ash Wednesday
Zero Discrimination Day (UN) 2
3 World Wildlife Day (UN)
4
5 1st QUARTER
6
7
8
9
10
11 Zeitgeist Day 2017*
12 FULL MOON
Purim
Daylight Saving Time
begins
13 Jacque Fresco’s
birthday (1916-)** 14
15
16
17 St. Patrick’s Day
18
19
20 VERNAL EQUINOX
3rd QUARTER
Earth Day*** 21 World Poetry Day (UN)
Naw Ruz (Baha’i) 22 World Water Day
(UN) 23
24
25 Earth Hour 8:30 p.m.
local time****
26
27 NEW MOON
28
29
30
31
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
April 2017
1
2 World Autism Awareness
Day (UN) 3 1st QUARTER
4
5 First Contact Day*
6
7
8
9 Palm Sunday
10
11 FULL MOON
First day of Passover 12
13
14 Good Friday
Orthodox Good Friday 15
16 Easter Sunday
Orthodox Easter 17 Easter Monday
18 Last day of Passover
19 3rd QUARTER
20
21
22 International Mother
Earth Day (UN)
23
24 Yom HaShoah
Isra and Mi'raj 25
26 NEW MOON
27
28
29
30International Jazz Day
(UN)
* http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/First_Contact_Day
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
May 2017
1
2 1st QUARTER
3 World Press Freedom
Day (UN) 4
5
6
7
8
9
10 FULL MOON
11
12
13
14 Mother’s Day
15 International Day of
Families (UN) 16
17 World Information
Society Day (UN) 18 3rd QUARTER
19
20 Day of Vesak
(Buddhist) (UN)
21
22 International Day
for Biological
Diversity (UN)
Victoria Day (Patriots’ Day QC)
23
24
25 NEW MOON
Ascension Day
Towel Day
DON’T PANIC*
26
27 Ramadan begins
28
29 International Day of
UN Peacekeepers 30
31 Shavuot * http://www.towelday.org
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
June 2017
1 1st QUARTER
Global Day of Parents (UN) 2
3
4 Pentecost
5 World Environment
Day (UN) 6
7
8 World Oceans Day (UN)
9 FULL MOON (MICRO)
10
11 Trinity Sunday
12
13
14
15 Corpus Christi
16
17 3rd QUARTER
18 Father’s Day
19
20 SUMMER SOLSTICE
(West/Central
Canada)
World Refugee Day (UN)
21 SUMMER SOLSTICE
(Eastern Canada)
National Aboriginal Day
Laylat al-Qadr
22
23 NEW MOON
International Widows’
Day (UN) 24St.-Jean-Baptiste (QC)
25
26 Eid-Al-Fitr
27
28
29
30 1st QUARTER
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
July 20171
International Day of
Cooperatives (UN)
Canada Day
2
3 APHELION*
Canada Day statutory
holiday observed 4
5
6
7
8
9 FULL MOON
10
11 World Population
Day (UN) 12 Buckminster Fuller's
birthday (1895-1983)** 13
14
15
16 3rd QUARTER
17
18 Nelson Mandela
International Day (UN) 19
20
21
22
23 NEW MOON
24
25
26 27
28
29
30 1st QUARTER
International Day of
Friendship (UN) 31 * http://www.windows2universe.org
** https://bfi.org
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
August 2017
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 FULL MOON
NCivic Holiday 8
9 International Day of the
World’s Indigenous
Peoples (UN) 10
11
12 International Youth
Day (UN)
13
14 3rd QUARTER
15 Assumption of Mary
16
17
18
19 World Humanitarian
Day (UN)
20
21 NEW MOON (BLACK)
PARTIAL SOLAR
ECLIPSE
(1:10 - 3:49 pm EST)
22
23 UN International
Day of Remembrance
of Slavery & Abolition 24
25
26
27
28
29 1st QUARTER
International Day
Against Nuclear
Tests (UN)
30
31 N The Civic Holiday is celebrated under many names in cities
across Canada, except in Québec and the Yukon (Yukon's holiday
is called Discovery Day and is the third Monday in August). See
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/civic-provincial-day
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
September 2017
* https://driveelectricweek.org
** http://talklikeapirate.com/wordpress/
*** http://www.worldcarfree.net
1
2 Eid-Al-Adha
3
4 Labour Day
5
6 FULL MOON
7
8 International Literacy
Day (UN) 9 Drive Electric Week
begins (Sept 9-17)*
10
11
12
13 3rd QUARTER
14
15 International Day
of Democracy (UN) 16
17
18
19 International Talk
Like a Pirate Day** 20 NEW MOON
21 International Day
of Peace (UN)
Rosh Hashanah 22 AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
Muharram
(Islamic New Year)
World Car-Free Day***
23
24
25
26 International Day for
the Total Elimination
of Nuclear Weapons
(UN)
27 1st QUARTER
28
29
30 Yom Kippur
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
October 2017
1 International Day of
Older Persons (UN) 2 World Habitat Day (UN)
International Day of
Non-Violence (UN)
Gandhi Jayanti
3
4 Feast of St. Francis
of Assisi 5 FULL MOON
World Teachers’ Day (UN)
First day of Sukkot 6
7
8
9 Thanksgiving Day
World Post Day (UN) 10
11 Last day of Sukkot
12 3rd QUARTER
13
14
15 International Day of
Rural Women (UN) 16 World Food Day (UN)
17 International Day for
the Eradication of
Poverty (UN) 18 Diwali/Deepavali
(Hindu New Year) 19 NEW MOON
20
21
22 23
24 United Nations Day
25
26
27 1st QUARTER
28
29
30
31 Hallowe’en
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November 2017
1 All Saints’ Day
World Vegan Day* 2 All Souls’ Day
3
4 FULL MOON
5 Daylight Saving Time ends
Vandana Shiva's birthday
(1952-)** 6
7
8
9
10 3rd QUARTER
World Science Day for
Peace & Development
(UN)
11 Remembrance Day
12
13
14
15
16 International Day for
Tolerance (UN) 17
18 NEW MOON
19
20 Universal Children’s
Day (UN) 21
22
23
24 Buy Nothing Day
(North America)*** 25 Buy Nothing Day
(International)****
26 1st QUARTER
27
28
29
30 * http://www.vegansociety.com
** http://vandanashiva.org
*** https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd
**** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day
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NOTES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
December 20171
Prophet’s Birthday
2 International Day for the
Abolition of Slavery (UN)
3 FULL MOON (SUPER)
International Day of
Persons with Disabilities
(UN)
First Sunday of Advent
4
5 World Soil Day (UN)
6
7
8 Feast of the Immaculate
Conception 9 International
Anti-Corruption Day (UN)
10 3rd QUARTER
Human Rights Day (UN)
Cyclemas begins* 11
12
13 First day of Chanukah
14
15
16
17
18 NEW MOON (MICRO)
International Migrants’
Day (UN) 19
20 International Human
Solidarity Day (UN)
Last day of Chanukah 21 WINTER SOLSTICE
22
23
24
25 Christmas Day
26 1st QUARTER
Boxing Day 27
28
29
30
31 New Year’s Eve * http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/cyclemas2.html