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January 2012
UN International Year of
Cooperatives
UN International Year of
Sustainable Energy For All
1 FIRST QUARTER
New Year’s Day 2 Lendemain du Jour de l'An
(QC) 3 4 5 6 Epiphany
7 Orthodox Christmas Day
8 9 FULL MOON
10 11 12 13 14 Orthodox New Year
15 World Religion Day
(Baha’i)* 16 17 18 19 20 21 LAST QUARTER
22 23 NEW MOON
Chinese New Year 24 25 26 27 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust (UN)**
28
29 30 31 FIRST QUARTER *http://www.wheeloftheyear.com
**http://www.timeanddate.com/
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February 2012
1 2 Groundhog Day
3
4
5 Prophet’s Birthday
6 7 FULL MOON
8 9 10 11 Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day)
12 13 14 LAST QUARTER
Valentine’s Day 15 16
17 18
19 20 Family Day
(AB, ON, SK)
World Day of Social
Justice (UN)
21 NEW MOON
Mardi Gras 22 23 24 25 Ash Wednesday
26 27 28 29 FIRST QUARTER
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March 2012
*http://zdayglobal.org/
**http://und.edu/org/earthday/earth_day_origin.htm
***http://www.earthhour.org/
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 FULL MOON
Purim 9 ZDAY 2012 begins*
10 ZDAY 2012 continues
11 Daylight Savings Time
begins
ZDAY 2012 begins anew 12
13
14 15 16 17 LAST QUARTER St. Patrick’s Day
18 19 20 VERNAL EQUINOX
Earth Day** 21 World Poetry Day (UN)
22 NEW MOON
World Water Day
(UN) 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FIRST QUARTER Earth Hour 8:30 p.m.***
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April 2012
1 2 3 4 5 6 Palm Sunday FULL MOON
Good Friday 7 First day of Passover
8 Easter Sunday
9 10 11 12 13 Easter Monday LAST QUARTER
Orthodox Good Friday 14 Last day of Passover
15 Orthodox Easter
16 17 18 Yom HaShoah
19 20 21 NEW MOON
22 International Mother
Earth Day (UN) 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 FIRST QUARTER
30
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May 2012
1 2 3 World Press Freedom
Day (UN) 4 5 FULL MOON
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 LAST QUARTER
13 14 15 Mother’s Day International Day of
Families (UN) 16 17 Ascension Day
World Information
Society Day (UN) 18 19
20 NEW MOON
21 Victoria Day
22 International Day
for Biological
Diversity (UN) 23 24
25 26
27 Pentecost
Shavuot 28 29 FIRST QUARTER International Day of
UN Peacekeepers 30 31
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June 2012
1 2
3 Trinity Sunday
4 FULL MOON
5 World Environment
Day (UN) 6 7 Corpus Christi
8 9 World Oceans Day (UN)
10 11 LAST QUARTER
12 13 14 15
16
17 Father’s Day
Isra and Mi'raj 18 19 NEW MOON
20 SUMMER SOLSTICE
World Refugee
Day (UN) 21National Aboriginal Day
22 23International Widows’
Day (UN)
24 St.-Jean-Baptiste
(QC) 25 26 27 28 29 30 FIRST QUARTER
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July 2012
1 Canada Day
2
3 FULL MOON
4 5 6 7 International Day of
Cooperatives (UN)
8 9 10 11 LAST QUARTER World Population
Day (UN) 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 Nelson Mandela
International Day (UN) 19 NEW MOON
20 Ramadan begins
21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 FIRST QUARTER
29 30 NEW MOON
International Day of
Friendship (UN) 31
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August 2012
1 FULL MOON
2 3 4
5 6 Civic Holiday
7 8 9 LAST QUARTER
International Day of the World’s Indigenous
People (UN)10 11
12 International Youth
Day (UN) 13 14 15 Laylat al-Qadr Assumption of Mary
16 17 NEW MOON
18
19 Eid-Al-Fitr
World Humanitarian
Day (UN) 20 21 22 23 24 25 FIRST QUARTER
26 27 28 29 International Day
Against Nuclear
Tests (UN) 30 31 FULL MOON
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September 20121
2 3 Labour Day
4 5 6 7 8 LAST QUARTER
International Literacy
Day (UN)
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NEW MOON
International Day
of Democracy (UN)
16 17 Rosh Hashanah
18 19 International Talk
Like a Pirate Day* 20 21 International Day
of Peace (UN) 22AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
FIRST QUARTER
World Car-Free Day**
23 24 25 26 Yom Kippur
27 28 29 FULL MOON
30 *http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
**http://www.worldcarfree.net/
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October 2012
1 First Day of Sukkot
World Habitat Day (UN) International Day of Older Persons (UN)
2 International Day of
Non-Violence (UN) 3 4 Feast of St. Francis
of Assisi 5 6
7 8 Last day of Sukkot LAST QUARTER
Thanksgiving Day 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 NEW MOON
International Day of
Rural Women (UN) 16 17 World Food Day (UN) International Day for
the Eradication of
Poverty (UN) 18 19
20
21 FIRST QUARTER
22 23 24 United Nations Day
25 26 27 Eid-Al-Adha
28 29 FULL MOON
30 31 Hallowe’en
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November 2012
*http://www.worldveganday.org/
**http://www.teddave.com/nothing.html
***http://buynothingday.de/htm/english/why.htm
1 All Saints’ Day
World Vegan Day* 2 All Souls’ Day
3
4 Daylight Savings Time
ends 5 6 LAST QUARTER
7 8 9 10
11 12 13 Remembrance Day NEW MOON
Diwali/Deepavali
(Hindu New Year) 14 15 Muharram
(Islamic New Year) 16 International Day for
Tolerance (UN) 17
18 19 20 FIRST QUARTER
Universal Children’s
Day (UN) 21 22 23 Buy Nothing Day
(North America)** 24 Buy Nothing Day
(Europe)***
25 26 27 28 FULL MOON
29 30
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December 20121
2 3 First Sunday of Advent International Day of
Persons with Disabilities (UN) 4 5 6
LAST QUARTER
7 8 Feast of the Immaculate
Conception
9 10 First day of Chanukah Human Rights Day
(UN) 11 12 13 NEW MOON
14 15
16 Last day of Chanukah
17 18 International
Migrants’ Day (UN) 19 20 FIRST QUARTER
International Human
Solidarity Day (UN) 21 22 WINTER SOLSTICE
23 24 25 Christmas Day
26 Boxing Day
27 28 FULL MOON
29
30 31 New Year’s Eve