One of the goals we aspired to when we started Researcher’s Gateway was to provide information about the many holidays around the world If you have been following, you can already tell that we really enjoy holidays and the rich history they bring to our culture. We also do our best to cover a wide gamut of holidays from many cultures and religions as well as as many secular holidays as we are able.
For your benefit, we present our Holidays in this index by Month. We have also included the holidays that we explored in 208 and those we plan to cover during the course of 2019. I hope you are looking as forward to them as we are!
Our Holidays at The Researcher’s Gateway
January
February
- Chinese New Year (~ February 5th)
- Valentine’s Day (February 14th) – Who was Saint Valentine?
March
- Saint Patrick’s Day (March 17th), Why we wear green on Saint Patrick’s Day.
April
- Palm Sunday
- Passover (April 18th – 26th)
- Good Friday (April 19th)
- Easter (April 21st)
- Earth Day (April 22nd)
May
- May Day (May 1st)
- Holocaust Memorial Day (May 2nd)
- Ramadan (May 6th)
- Mother’s Day (May 9th)
- Memorial Day (May 27th)
June
- Eid
- Father’s Day
July
- Independence Day (July 4th, United States)
August
September
- Labor Day
- Rosh Hashanna
October
- Yom Kippur
- Columbus Day
- Halloween
- All Souls Day
November
December
- Advent
- A Brief History of Hanukkah, The Dreidels: History and How to Plan
- Saint Nicholas: Who was Santa Claus (December 6th)
- Saint Lucia’s Day (December 13th)
- Yuletide: Midwinter Yule
- The History of the Yule Log
- Christmas Tinsel: The Legend of the Christmas Spider
- The Christmas Tree: Olde Tannenbaum
- Christmas Stockings: A Brief History
- The 12 Days of Christmas (in 12 Parts) – (December 25th – January 5th)
- New Years Eve (December 31st)
