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Each year the Dalhousie Office of Human Rights, Equity & Harassment Prevention (HREHP) develops a mosaic calendar of religious holidays and cultural dates for faculty, staff and students. See below for a sample of April dates to observe, reflect, celebrate or promote throughout the university community.

All Jewish and Islamic Holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the first date shown. The complete calendar is available on our website.


APRIL 13-14
Saka New Year (BU)
Is a religious and cultural celebration for Sinhalese, Indians, Burmese, Kampucheans, Laotians and Thais.

APRIL 14
Baisakhi - Sikhism, Hinduism
Saka New Year - Buddhism
(New Year’s Day)

APRIL 15 (CANADA)
Yom Hashoah (JU)
“Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day", known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day and public holiday. It was inaugurated on 1953, anchored by a law signed by the Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion and the President of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. It is held on the 27th of Nisan (April/May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to Shabbat, in which case the date is shifted by a day. In other countries there are different commemorative days.