May 1, May Day, Beltane
May 2, Last day of Ridvan, the Baha’i festival when no work can be done
May 3, Dia de la Crus, Day of the Holy Cross in Mexico and South America
May 4, Feast of Bona Dea, a Roman women’s mystery rite
May 5, Mexico’s Cinco de Mayo; Children’s Day in Japan
May 6, National Day of Prayer (United States)
May 7, St. Nicola, pilgrimage of the Italian Christian hero
May 8, Festival of the Roman goddess of the mind, Mens, from whom Mensa takes its name
May 9, Lemuria, when Romans banished ghosts from their homes
May 10, Women’s rights hero Victoria Woodhull is the first woman nominated for president in 1872
May 11, Anniversary of the year 330 CE, Roman ritual rededication of Byzantium to Constantinople
May 12, International Midwives Day
May 13, Portuguese Pilgrimage to Fatima
May 14, Mercuralia, Festival of Mercury
May 15, International Day of Families
May 16, French processions on Saint Honoratus Day, patron saint of all bakers
May 17, Norwegian Independence Day
May 18, International Museum Day
May 19, Holiday of Poetry (Turkmenistan)
May 20, Cuba’s Independence Day
May 21, Anastenaria, Greek fire-walking festival
May 22, World Biodiversity Day
May 23, The American Civil War ends, 1865—celebrate national unity
May 24, Slovenian Sveti Kiril I Metodi
May 25, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birthday
May 26, Birth of Isadora Duncan (1878), self-proclaimed Dionysian ritual dancer and choreographer
May 27, St. Augustine of Canterbury Day, make a pilgrimage to a local shrine or holy place
May 28, John Muir founds the Sierra Club (1892)
May 29, Oak Apple Day in England
May 30, Memorial Day or Decoration Day
May 31, Flores de Mayo, last day of flowers, or May Day
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