2010 Holiday Season Calendar

[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!

Comments

[sage]

♥

[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!

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

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!

[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.

[nightgarden.livejournal.com]

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

This is a great calendar!

[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

[ailbhe]

6 Dec - Epiphany / Nollaig na mBan (Women's Christmas, called Little Christmas by Wikipedia)

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

January 6th is Kings' Day/Epiphany (for the western portion of christianity, Orthodox epiphany is later.)

[gingicat]

Dec 9 is Eva's birthday, Dec 9 is WMom's birthday, Dec 23 is my mom's birthday, Dec 25 is Isaac Newton's birthday. ;)

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of holidays!