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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