browngirl

sageness compiled this calendar; when formatting it to repost it I decided to add some links. (Note: I am not interested in debating the inclusion of any of these holidays. If there are holidays that should be added or links you think would be better, please let me know, but I'm not removing any holidays.)

16-19 November:
Eid al-Adha

25 November:
US Thanksgiving
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

28 November:
First Sunday of Advent

1 December:
World AIDS Day

1-9 December:
Hanukkah begins at dusk 12/01/10

3 December:
International Day of Persons with Disabilities

5 December:
Sinterklaas
Krampusnacht

6 December:
St. Nicholas' Day

7 December:
Pearl Harbor Day
Islamic New Year

8 December:
Bodhi Day
Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

10 December:
Human Rights Day
Mercury Retrograde (6:04am CST)

13 December:
St. Lucy/Lucia's Day

17 December:
Asarah B'Tevet

17-23 December:
Saturnalia (also, this because I couldn't resist.)

21 December:
Solstice (exact at 6:04am CST) (Winter for Northern, Summer for Southern Hemisphere)
Yule
Modranect (Mother's Night)
Death of the Holly King
The Wild Hunt (this search led me to, of all random things, a movie about the perils of LARPing. But that's neither here nor there.)
Brumalia
Yalda
Dongzhi

21-25 December:
Pancha Ganapati

23 December:
Festivus
Night of the Radishes

25 December:
Christmas Day (for a religious take, this, for a historical take, this, and for animated festivity, this. I feel bad giving it so many extra links, but, well.)

26 December:
Feast of Stephen (also, a poem.)
Boxing Day
Wren Day

26 December-1 January:
Kwanzaa

30 December:
Mercury Direct (1:21am CST)

31 December:
Watch Night
New Year's Eve

1 January:
New Year's Day aka Hangover Day

2 January:
Hangover Day observed.

browngirl and

jerusha's birthday.

5 January:
Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve)

7 January:
Christmas (Eastern Calendar)

ETA: Holidays contributed by

jerusha and

nightgarden! Thank you!

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browngirl.livejournal.com

Corrections and additional holidays are pouring in! It's made of niftuiness. :)

jerusha.livejournal.com

Are you including US civic holidays? 1 January New Year's Day

Both your link to About.com and the Islamic Holidays plug-in to Outlook list the Islamic New Year as December 7, not 8.

17 December: Fast of the 10th day of Tevet (Asarah B'Tevet (http://www.ou.org/chagim/roshchodesh/tevet/fast.htm))

6 January: Epiphany
7 January: Christmas (Eastern Calendar)

And, of course:
2 January: Happy Birthday to Us!

yarram.livejournal.com

IIUC, the Islamic calendar is based on actual *sightings* of the moon, so it's possible for there to be a one (or rarely two) day variance in Gregorian calendar dates across the world, because the moon may not actually be sighted on the predicted date, or time zones may result in calendrical odditites (yay International Date Line). I also seem to recall that different schools have different rules about what qualifies as an official Sighting, but that's probably more detail than most people are interested in...

*nod* For now I'm going to align the date I list with my source, but I think I may need to do more research.

Thank you for all of these, especially that catch on Islamic New Year.

I deliberated about putting Our Birthday on there. I know someone else with Hangover Day as their birthday, but I can't recall who at the moment...

Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Isaac Asimov are two of our natal cohort that come to mind right now. Also, peeking at Making Light (), Tobias Buckell.

Checking the list on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2#Births), on the positive side, we get Christine Lavin. Of course, we also have to share with Jim Bakker.

Islamic holidays are determined by moonrise, so they depend on where in the world you are. I left out New Year's Day on my original version of this because it seemed redundant after New Year's Eve. *g*

(drat! I wrote this reply 2+ hrs ago totally failed to click the "post" button. Oops? /o\)

Also:

8 December: Feast of the Immaculate Conception (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Immaculate_Conception) of Mary

berreh.livejournal.com

Io Saturnalia!

Io! Io!

bercilakslady.livejournal.com

I didn't realize Hannukah is so early this year. Huh. I may have to do a latke party or some such.

Oh nifty!

nightgarden.livejournal.com

December 5: Krampusnacht (http://www.krampus.com/who-is-krampus.php).

This is a great calendar!

Duly added. :D

It's to

sageness's credit! I just added some links.

peteralway.livejournal.com

Sky and Telescope tells me that the Winter Solstice is actually in the evening at 6:38 pm EST. (Wikipedia agrees, for what it's worth--Which would be 5:38 pm CST 4:38 MST, and 3:38 PST)

And while we're on the topic of astronomical phenomena on Dec. 21, there will be a lunar eclipse in the wee hours of the morning on the 21st:

Penumbral phases starts 05:29:17 UT = 12:29:17 AM EST
(First shadings visible around 06:00 UT = 1:00 AM EST)
Partial phase starts 06:32:37 UT = 1:32:37 AM EST
Total phase starts 07:40:47 UT = 2:40:47 AM EST
Total phase ends 08:53:08 UT = 3:53:08 AM EST
Partial phase ends 10:01:20 UT = 5:01:20 AM EST
(Last shadings visible around 10:30 UT = 5:50 AM EST)
Penumbral phase ends 11:04:31 UT = 6:04:31 AM EST

Thanks for the notes on this. I have the Eclipse being exact at 3:17am EST, which at least fits in the middle of the Total Phase numbers you have. I'll look into what's up with my Winter Solstice time being so far off the mark.

Yeah, mid-eclipse would be the most likely single time given for the lunar eclipse, though in my humble opinion the first partial phase, culminating with totality, is the most interesting part to watch.