Institute of World Culture
Global Anniversaries and Observances

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January Anniversaries
  January Observances

3 Cicero 106 B.C.E
4 Isaac Newton 1642
Louis Braille 1809
5 George Washington Carver d. 1943
Guru Gobindh Singh (Sikh)
6 Joan of Arc 1412

Kahil Gibran 1883
7 Charles Peguy 1873
9 Marco Polo d.1324
11 William James 1842
12 Edmund Burke 1729
14 Albert Schweitzer 1875
15 Moliere 1622
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929
17 Benjamin Franklin 1706
Anton Chekhov 1860
18 Montesquieu 1689
Claude de St. Martin 1743
19 James Watt 1736
Robert E. Lee 1807
Edgar Allen Poe 1809
20 Andre Marie Ampere 1775
22 Francis Bacon 1561
George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788
23 David Hilbert 1862
25 Robert Boyle 1627
Robert Burns 1759
27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) 1832
28 Zarathustra (Zoroaster)
29 Thomas Paine 1737
Romain Rolland 1866
30 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882
M.K. Gandhi d. 1948
31 Franz Schubert 1797
Anna Pavlova 1885

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1 Druid Mistletoe Festival

Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln) 1863
4 Hermes-Budha
5 Twelfth Night
7 Coptic Christmas
8 Paines’s Common Sense Published 1776
10 Muharram, Islamic New Year
League of Nations 1920
11 Caesar crossed the Rubicon 49 B.C.E.

15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Radioactive elements produced (Curie) 1934
17 Edict Of Toleration (France) 1562
21 First B.B.C. broadcast to the world
22 Uranium atom split 1939
26 Indian Republic Day
February Anniversaries
  February Observances
3 Horace Greeley 1811
7 Sir Thomas More 1478
Charles Dickens 1812
Dmitri Mendeleev 1834
8 Proclus 410
John Ruskin 1819
Martin Buber 1878
Peter Kropotkin d. 1921
9 Philo Judaeus 35 B.C.E.
10 Boris Pasternak 1890
Bertolt Brecht 1898
11 Thomas Alva Edison 1847
12 Abraham Lincoln 1809
Charles Darwin 1809
14 Valentine d. 270
Frederick Douglass 1817
15 Galileo Galilei 1564
Susan B. Anthony 1820
17 Giordano Bruno 1548 & d. 1600
18 Krishna d. 3102 B.C.E.
Niccolo Paganini 1784
Ramakrishna 1836
19 Nicholaus Copernicus 1473
20 Voltaire 1694
22 George Washington 1732
Arthur Schopenhauer 1788
Frederic Chopin 1810
Heinrich Hertz 1857
24 Pico della Mirandola 1463
25 Shri Ramakrishna 1836
26 Victor Hugo 1802
27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807
28 Michel de Montaigne 1533
Vladislav Nijinski 1890
  1 Abolition of Slavery Bill signed (U.S.A.) 1865
12 Lantern Festival Day
16 Maha Shivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva)

7 Chinese New Year
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress published

19 Emancipation of serfs

20 John H. Glenn orbits the earth 3 times (1962)
21 Ash Wednesday
March Anniversaries
  March Observances

3 Georg Cantor 1845
Alexander Graham Bell 1847
4 Antonio Vivaldi 1678
5 Socrates d. 399 B.C.E.
6 Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806
7 Piet Mondrian 1872
Maurice Ravel 1875
8 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841
10 Apollonius of Tyana 4
12 George Berkeley 1684
14 Johann Strauss 1804
Albert Einstein 1879
15 Julius Caesar d. 44 B.C.E.
18 Stephane Mallarme 1842
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844
19 David Livingstone 1813
20 Ovid 43 B.C.E.
Henrik Ibsen 1828
21 Pocahantas d. 1617
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685
23 Pierre Simon de Laplace 1749
24 Lao Tzu d. 604 B.C.E.
William Morris 1834
26 Edward Bellamy 1850
Robert Frost 1875
27 Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen 1845
28 Teresa of Avila 1515
29 Menes, first pharoah of Egypt 3400 B.C.E.
30 Maimonides 1135
Francisco de Goya 1746
Vincent van Gogh 1853
31 Mohammed 570
Rene Descartes 1596
Franz Joseph Haydn 1732

Cesar Chavez 1927

 

 
6 Mahashivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva)
8 International Women’s Day
End Pacific Standard Time
10 Begin Pacific Daylight Time
Commonwealth Day
Tibet Uprising Day
14 Sikh New Year
15 Ides
16 Palm Sunday
19 Vernal Equinox
Hindu New Year
Ancient Romans dedicated Minerva’s temple

20 Theory of General Relativity (Einstein) 1916
21 Persian New Year
Purim (Jewish)
Good Friday
22 Holi (Hindu Spring Festival)


23 Easter
27 Ramanavami (Hindu)
Ancient Roman procession honoring Cybele
April Anniversaries
  April Observances
1st Confucius d. 479 B.C.E.
William Harvey 1578
2nd Charlemagne 743
Hans Christian Andersen 1805
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1872
3rd Washington Irving 1783
4th Martin Luther King, Jr. d. 1968
5th Raphael 1483
Joseph Lister 1827
Booker T. Washington 1856
6th Ashoka 270 B.C.E.
7th William Wordsworth 1770
8th Hugo von Mohl 1805
9th Charles Baudelaire 1821
10th Hugho Grotius 1583
George William Russell 1867
Paul Robeson 1898
13th Thomas Jefferson 1743
14th Christiaan Huygens 1629
Arnold Toynbee 1889
Shri Ramana Maharshi d. 1950
15th Leonardo da Vinci 1452
Leonhard Euler 1707
16th Anatole France 1844
Charles Chaplin 1889
17th Thornton Wilder 1897
18th David Ricardo 1823
21st Peter Abelard 1079
John Muir 1838
Max Weber 1864
22nd Immannuel Kant 1724
Vladimir Lenin 1870
23rd William Shakespeare 1564 & d. 1616
Miguel Cervantes d. 1616
Max Planck 1858
Serge Prokofiev 1891
24th Edmund Cartwright 1743
25th William the Silent 1533
Oliver Cromwell 1599
Guglielmo Marconi 1874
26th Marcus Aurelius 121
David Hume 1711
John James Audubon 1785
27th Edward Gibbon 1737
Samuel F. B. Morse 1791
Herbert Spencer 1820
28th Kurt Godel 1906
29 C. P. Cavafy 1863 & d. 1933
30th Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777

 

  5th British Museum founded 1753
6th Hindu New Year
Robert Perry reached the North Pole 1909
7th World Health Day
12th Yuri Gagarin, First Space Traveller 1961
14th Ramanavami (Rama’s Nativity)
16th Abu Simbel Restoration 1966
18th Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)
19th Pesach (Jewish Passover)

20th Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu)
Theravadin New Year (Buddhist)
Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian)
Radium isolated by Madame Curie 1902

Earth Day
24th Discovery of micro-organisms by van Leeuwenhoek 1676

Library of Congress established 1800

25th Discovery of DNA structure by Watson & Crick 1953
29th Discovery of electron by J. J. Thompson 1897
May Anniversaries
  May Observances
June Anniversaries
  June Observances
July Anniversaries
  July Observances
August Anniversaries
  August Observances
September Anniversaries

September Observances

3rd Code Napoleon 1807
4th Pindar 518 BCE
Chateaubriand 1768
6th Jane Addams 1860
7th August Kekule 1929
8th Robert Fludd d. 1637
9th Luigi Galvani 1737
Leo Tolstoy 1828
14th Dante Alighiere d. 1321
16th Tintoretto 1518
17th Queen Elizabeth I 1533
18th Tulsidas 1532
Samuel Johnson 1709
20th Romulus, founder of Rome 756 BCE
Alexander the Great 356 BCE
21st Louis Joliet 1645
Kwame Nkrumah 1909
22nd Michael Faraday 1791
24th Paracelsus d. 1541
25th Dmitri Shostakovich 1906
26th T.S. Eliot 1888
28th Confucius c. 551 BCE
Friedrich Engels 1820
29th Euripides 480 BCE
Miguel de Unamuno 1864
Enrico Fermi 19
01
30th Jalal al-din Rumi 1207

 

        

2nd Adoption of a new calendar 1752
3th Labour Day
8th World Literacy Day
10th Grecian calendar begins 312 BCE
13th Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
Ramadan begins
Dedication of Jupiter temple (Roman)
15th Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu)

Respect for the Aged Day (Japan)
16th Discovery of Saturn¹s moon Hyperion 1848
17th Citizenship Day
Discovery of Saturn¹s moon Mimas 1789
21st Ancient Egyptian Persian, Phoenician New Year
22nd Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement)
Blessed Rainy Day (Bhutan)
23rd Autumnal Equinox

Discovery of Neptune (Galle & d¹Arrest) 1846
American Indian Day 
30th First photograph of nebula in Orion 1880

October Anniversaries
  October Observances

1st Marsilio Ficino d. 1499
2nd M.K. Gandhi 1869
4th St. Francis of Assisi d. 1226
5th Denis Diderot 1713
Ramalinga 1823
6th Richard Dedeking 1831
Le Corbusier 1887

7th Neils Bohr 1885
9th Miguel de Cervantes 1547


10th Plotinus d. 270
12th Henri Bergson 1859
14th William Penn 1644
15th Virgil 70 BCE
16th Noah Webster
17th Marsilio Ficino 1433
20th Sir Christopher Wren 1632
21st Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772
24th Anton van Leeuwenhoek 1632
25th Johann Strauss 1825
26th Alfred the Great d. 899
28th Desiderius Erasmus 1469
30th Christopher Columbus 1451
30th Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821
Paul Valery 1871

31st Benvenuto Cellini 1500

 

2nd Table of atomic weights (Dalton) 1803
4th Sputnik I enters orbit 1957

Columbus Day
13th Ramadan ends
Observation of solar eclipse 2128 BCE
18th Sarasvati Puja (Hindu)

Quantized atom propounded (Neils Bohr) 1913
21st Ancient Greek festival honoring Themis
Demonstration of the electric light (Edison) 1879
24th United Nations Day
U.N. Charter signed (San Francisco) 1945

31st All Hallows Eve
31st Samhain, Celtic New Year
Reformation Day

November Anniversaries
  November Observances

1st Benvenuto Cellini 1500
2nd George Boole 1815
3rd Vilhjalmur Stefanson 1879
4th Will Rogers 1879
6th Emperor Julian 331
8th John D. Scotus d. 1308
Edmund Haley 1656
10th Martin Luther 1483
Johann Schiller 1759
11th Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821
Maulana Azad 1888
12th Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815

August Rodin1840
14th Albertus Magnus 1193
Charles Lyell 1797
Jawaharlal Nehru 1889
15th William Herschel 1738
17th Birth of Jesus acc. Clement of Alexandria
Pico della Mirandola d. 1494
18th Jacob Boehme 1595
24th Benedict Spinoza 1632
28th William Blake 1757
30th Sir Philip Sidney 1554
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1835

 

  1st All Saints’ Day
Ancient Roman festival honoring Nike
2nd All Souls’ Day
7th Observation of Mercury crossing the sun 1631

9th Deepavali (Hindu)

10th Invention of analytic geometry (Descartes) 1619
11th Discovery of cosmic rays
17th Suez Canal opened
19th Gettysburg Address (Lincoln)
20th Universal Children’s Day
22nd Thanksgiving
24th Guru Nanak’s Birthday (Sikh)
28th First meeting of Royal Society 1660
December Anniversaries
  December Observances
1 Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1793
4 Thomas Carlyle 1795

Rainer Maria Rilke 1875
5 Werner Heisenberg 1901
7 Giovanni Bernini 1598
8 Horace 65 B.C.E.
9 John Milton 1608
10 Porphyry c.233
Jonathan Swift 1667
William Lloyd Garrison 1805

Emily Dickinson 1830
12 Averroes 1126
14 Nostradamus 1503
15 A. Becquerel 1853
16 Tsong-Kha-Pa 1355
Ludwig von Beethoven 1770
Margaret Mead 1901
17 Paracelsus 1493
18 J.J Thomson 1856
Francis Thompson 1859
19 A.A. Michelson 1852

20 Sacagawea d. 1812
22 Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887
24 James Prescott Joule 1818
Mathew Arnold 1882
25 Anwar Sadat 1918
26 Thomas Gray 1716
Charles Babbage 1792
27 Johann Kepler 1571
Louis Pasteur 1822
30 Shri Ramana Maharisha 1879
31 John Wycliffee d. 1384
John Flamsteed d. 1719
  1 Rosa Parks Day
2 First Sustained Atomic Chain Reaction 1942
3 Discovery of Uranus (Flamsteed) 1714
6 Thirteenth Amendment (USA) abolishing slavery 1865
10 Human Rights Day
11 Ancient Roman festival honoring all the gods

14 Roald Amundsen reached South Pole 1911
16 International Court of Justice 1920

17 First airplane flight (Wilbur & Orville Wright) 1903
18 Abolition of Capital Punishment (England) 1969
21 Landing of Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. 1620
22 Winter Solstice
24 Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
25 Christmas Day (Christian)
26 Death of Zarathustra

28 Discovery of x-rays (Roentgen) 1895
January Anniversaries
  January Observances

3 Cicero 106 B.C.E
4 Isaac Newton 1642
Louis Braille 1809
5 George Washington Carver d. 1943
Guru Gobindh Singh (Sikh)
6 Joan of Arc 1412

Kahil Gibran 1883
7 Charles Peguy 1873
9 Marco Polo d.1324
11 William James 1842
12 Edmund Burke 1729
14 Albert Schweitzer 1875
15 Moliere 1622
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929
17 Benjamin Franklin 1706
Anton Chekhov 1860
18 Montesquieu 1689
Claude de St. Martin 1743
19 James Watt 1736
Robert E. Lee 1807
Edgar Allen Poe 1809
20 Andre Marie Ampere 1775
22 Francis Bacon 1561
George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788
23 David Hilbert 1862
25 Robert Boyle 1627
Robert Burns 1759
27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) 1832
28 Zarathustra (Zoroaster)
29 Thomas Paine 1737
Romain Rolland 1866
30 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882
M.K. Gandhi d. 1948
31 Franz Schubert 1797
Anna Pavlova 1885

 
1 Druid Mistletoe Festival

Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln) 1863
4 Hermes-Budha
5 Twelfth Night
7 Coptic Christmas
8 Paines’s Common Sense Published 1776
10 Muharram, Islamic New Year
League of Nations 1920
11 Caesar crossed the Rubicon 49 B.C.E.

15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Radioactive elements produced (Curie) 1934
17 Edict Of Toleration (France) 1562
21 First B.B.C. broadcast to the world
22 Uranium atom split 1939
26 Indian Republic Day
February Anniversaries
  February Observances
3 Horace Greeley 1811
7 Sir Thomas More 1478
Charles Dickens 1812
Dmitri Mendeleev 1834
8 Proclus 410
John Ruskin 1819
Martin Buber 1878
Peter Kropotkin d. 1921
9 Philo Judaeus 35 B.C.E.
10 Boris Pasternak 1890
Bertolt Brecht 1898
11 Thomas Alva Edison 1847
12 Abraham Lincoln 1809
Charles Darwin 1809
14 Valentine d. 270
Frederick Douglass 1817
15 Galileo Galilei 1564
Susan B. Anthony 1820
17 Giordano Bruno 1548 & d. 1600
18 Krishna d. 3102 B.C.E.
Niccolo Paganini 1784
Ramakrishna 1836
19 Nicholaus Copernicus 1473
20 Voltaire 1694
22 George Washington 1732
Arthur Schopenhauer 1788
Frederic Chopin 1810
Heinrich Hertz 1857
24 Pico della Mirandola 1463
25 Shri Ramakrishna 1836
26 Victor Hugo 1802
27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807
28 Michel de Montaigne 1533
Vladislav Nijinski 1890

 

  1 Abolition of Slavery Bill signed (U.S.A.) 1865
12 Lantern Festival Day
16 Maha Shivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva)

7 Chinese New Year
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress published

19 Emancipation of serfs

20 John H. Glenn orbits the earth 3 times (1962)
21 Ash Wednesday
March Anniversaries
  March Observances

3 Georg Cantor 1845
Alexander Graham Bell 1847
4 Antonio Vivaldi 1678
5 Socrates d. 399 B.C.E.
6 Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806
7 Piet Mondrian 1872
Maurice Ravel 1875
8 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841
10 Apollonius of Tyana 4
12 George Berkeley 1684
14 Johann Strauss 1804
Albert Einstein 1879
15 Julius Caesar d. 44 B.C.E.
18 Stephane Mallarme 1842
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844
19 David Livingstone 1813
20 Ovid 43 B.C.E.
Henrik Ibsen 1828
21 Pocahantas d. 1617
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685
23 Pierre Simon de Laplace 1749
24 Lao Tzu d. 604 B.C.E.
William Morris 1834
26 Edward Bellamy 1850
Robert Frost 1875
27 Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen 1845
28 Teresa of Avila 1515
29 Menes, first pharoah of Egypt 3400 B.C.E.
30 Maimonides 1135
Francisco de Goya 1746
Vincent van Gogh 1853
31 Mohammed 570
Rene Descartes 1596
Franz Joseph Haydn 1732

30 Cesar Chavez 1927

 

 
6 Mahashivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva)
8 International Women’s Day
End Pacific Standard Time
10 Begin Pacific Daylight Time
Commonwealth Day
Tibet Uprising Day
14 Sikh New Year
15 Ides
16 Palm Sunday
19 Vernal Equinox
Hindu New Year
Ancient Romans dedicated Minerva’s temple

20 Theory of General Relativity (Einstein) 1916
21 Persian New Year
Purim (Jewish)
Good Friday
22 Holi (Hindu Spring Festival)


23 Easter
27 Ramanavami (Hindu)
Ancient Roman procession honoring Cybele