February 12

Here you will find the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on February 12.

See also:  February,  Today in History,  movable February holidays,  possible February holidays

• Burma Union Day
• Choes Day (Day of the Cups; Ancient Greece)
• Great American Chocolate Festival begins
• Lincoln Day (USA)
  • Lost Penny Day - in conjunction with Abraham Lincoln’s birthday; collecting unused pennies and donating them to charities
• Lunar New Year
• National Plum Pudding Day
• World Marriage Day
• Feast of Diana/Artemis (Goddess of the Hunt)

Christian holidays

• Calendar of Saints - February 12
  • St. Julian the Hospitaler (patron of travelers, innkeepers,  boatmen, circus performers)

anniversaries

• first Japanese troops served in full peacekeeping role, in the Golan Heights (1996)
• The first fugitive slave laws were enacted by the U. S. Congress (1793)

directories

February holidays & events by location

• Africa
• Asia & Middle East
• Europe
• North & Central America
• Oceania
• South America

Africa

Asia

• Union Day - in Burma (Myanmar) (1947)

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

Europe

• Borrowed Days begin (in the Scottish highlands)
• Burgsonndeg - in Luxembourg
• General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Day - in Poland

North America

• Abraham Lincoln's birth anniversary - in the US (1809)
• Georgia Day
• Oglethorpe Day - in Georgia; honoring the founder of Savannah and the then-colony of Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Day 1997
  • Oglethorpe University
  • US Postage Stamps of 1933
• Festival of Pitooyage (God of gaming & chance) - in Oaxaca, Mexico

Caribbean

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

• Day 43, with 322 days remaining in the year
• 2001 A. D.: Monday
• 2002 A. D.:  Tuesday
• 2003 A. D.:  Wednesday
• 2004 A. D.:  Friday
• 2005 A. D.:  Saturday

• 2006 A. D.:  Sunday
• 2007 A. D.:  Monday
• 2008 A. D.:  Wednesday
• 2009 A. D.:  Thursday
• 2010 A. D.:  Friday
• 2011 A. D.:  Saturday

other calendars

• Julian period & Julian Day
• Illuminati
• Hebrew
• Mayan
• Chinese
• Erisian (Discordian) 
• Islamic
• French Revolutionary

season

• Northern hemisphere:  Winter
• Southern hemisphere:  Summer

zodiac

• Aquarius

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last edited Sunday, December 25, 2005