Calendar of Events
May 2026
May is the month of Jewish Heritage Month, Haitian Heritage Month, and Asian Heritage Month.
5 May is the National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ People (MMIWG2S). Also known as Red Dress Day, it focuses on the thousands lost to the outsized violence experienced by MMIWG2S in Canada. The Red Dress of the day was inspired by a Métis artist who hung empty red dresses to demonstrate the numbers who have gone missing or who have been murdered. (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Other events in April include:
| Event | Date(s) | Region/Tradition |
| International Workers’ Day | 1 May | International |
| Vesak | 1 May | Buddhism |
| Cinco de Mayo | 5 May | Mexico |
| National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls | 5 May | Canada |
| Dutch Heritage Day | 5 May | Canada |
| International Nurses’ Day | 6 May | International |
| Mother’s Day | 10 May | Canada, United States, various countries |
| Apraxia Awareness Day | 14 May | Canada |
| Ascension Day | 14 May | Christianity (Western) |
| Nakba Day | 15 May | International |
| International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia | 17 May | International |
| Global Porphyria Awareness Day | 18 May | International |
| Victoria Day | 18 May | Canada |
| Global Accessibility Awareness Day | 21 May | International |
| Shavuot | 21 – 23 May | Judaism |
| Declaration of the Báb | 23 – 24 May | Baháʼí |
| Pentecost | 24 May | Christianity (Western) |
| Hajj | 24 – 29 May | Islam |
| Africa Day | 25 May | Africa and African Diaspora |
| Anti-Racism Awareness Week | 25 – 29 May | International |
| Eid al-Adha | 26 – 30 May | Islam |
| Ascension of Baha'u'llah | 29 May | Baháʼí |
| Saga Dawa Düchen | 31 May | Buddhism |