Calendar of Events 2010
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2010 International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures 
International Year of Biodiversity
National Blood Donor Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Hobby Month
1 New Year’s Day
2 Day after New Year’s Day
2 World Wetlands Day*
18Southland Anniversary Day
18 World Religion Day
18 Martin Luther King Day
20 Penguin Day
25 Wellington Anniversary Day
25 Annual Hui of Ratana Movement Day
26 Australia / India Day
28 Potato Day
30 Holocaust Commemoration Day – Europe
31 - 6 Febr. Leprosy Awareness Week
An Affair to Remember Month
Creative Romance Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
1 – 28 Bike Wise Month: see Bike Wise Week display www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas1 Auckland Anniversary Day
1 Nelson Anniversary Day
2 World Wetlands Day* with the theme: "Wetlands, Biodiversity, and Climate Change,"
3 1931: Hawkes Bay Earthquake, measering 7.8 on the Richter scale
4 World Cancer Day 
6 Waitangi Day
7 Charles Dickens Day
8 United Nations Day for Women's rights and International Peace*
8 – 14 Heart Foundation Valentines Heart Week
9 1770: James Cook completes circumnavigation of North Island
9 Chinese Lantern Festival
11 1845: The flagstaff is cut down and Kororareka is invaded
12 Darwin Day
13 – 14 Second Chance for Love – SPCA Adoptathon
14 Valentines day
14 Get it on! Big Gay Out
14 – 21 Condom Week
14 Chinese New Year – Year of the tiger
17 1835: First book printed in New Zealand by William Colenso
20 World Day of Social Justice
20 – 28 Muscular Dystrophy Association Bow Tie Week
21 International Mother Language Day*
21 Chemical Sensitivity Day
28 Purim Jewish
28 – 6 March Eating Disorders Week
March / Maehe
Autumn 1 March – 31 May
National Women's History Month
Poetry Month
Music in our Schools Month
National Craft Month
1 Self-Injury Awareness Day
1 – 7 New Zealand Red Cross Appeal Week
1 – 7 Return the Borrowed Books Week
4 NZ Post Book Awards Finalist Announced (finalist announced and children choice voting begins)
4 World Book Day
7 NZ Children’s Day. Theme is: "Praise and Encouragement".
7 – 14 NZ Sea Week: see Sea Life display http://www.creativelibrarydisplays.com/ for display ideas
8 International Women’s Day*
8 Commonwealth Day and the Commonwealth theme for 2010: 'Science, Technology and Society'
8 Taranaki Anniversary Day
8 – 14 Child Cancer Appeal Week
9 Panic Day
12 – 21 National Science and Engineering Week
13 – 14 WOMAD Festival Taranaki
13 – 21 Asthma NZ Awareness Campaign, One Man, One Road, One Cycle.
Christchurch to Auckland, free education road show.
15 – 21 International Brain Awareness Week
17 Saint Patricks Day
18 – 21 National Conference of Missing Persons
19 World Sleep Day, under the slogan: "Sleep Well, Stay Healthy".
20 Sun Earth Day
21 World Poetry Day 
21 World Forestry Day*
21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21 World Down Syndrome Day
22 Otago Anniversary Day
22 World Water Day* 
23 International World Meteorogical Day*
24 International Tuberculosis Day*
26 – 28 Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Red Puppy Appeal
27 International World Theatre Day* 
27 Margaret Mahy Day
27 – 28 Dragon Boat Festival Wellington
30 Pesach - Jewish
April / Aperira
National Humor Month
International Guitar Month
Stress Awareness Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
1 April Fool’s Day
2 World Autism Awareness Day
2 International Children’s Book Day
2 Good Friday
2 – 4 Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow
4 – 5 Easter Christian 
5 – 11 National Polio Eradication Awareness Week
7 World Health Day*
10 1968: 'Wahine' Disaster
10 – 18 Youth Week
15 1912: Titanic sinks
19 Zoo Awareness Day 
19 – 25 Leukaemia & Blood Foundation Shave 10 week
22 World Earth Day*
23 World Book and Copyright Day *
24 World Lab and Animal Day*
23 Poppy Day
25 ANZAC Day 
25 Africa Malaria Day
26 – 2 May NZ Riding for the Disabled Association Inc Awareness Week
29 World Dance Day
30 1959: Official opening of Auckland's Harbor Bridge
May / Mei
National Atrhritis Month
Heal the Children Month
New Zealand Music Month Anti-Tobacco Campaign Month
Medidation Month
Clean Air Month
1 World Naturist Day*
1 Labour Day*
1 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 – Childrens Choice - Voting closes
2 – 8 New Zealand Sign Language Week
2 – 8 National Pet Week
3 World Press Freedom Day*. The theme is 'Freedom of Information: The Right to Know'
3 – 7 Teachers Appreciation Week
4 International Fire Fighters Day
5 International Midwife Day*
5 Asthma Day*
8 1945: WWII ends after 5 years, 8 months and 7 days
8 World Red Cross Red Crescent Day
8 Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War*
8 – 16 National Tourism Week
9 Mothers Day
9 Europe Day*
10 – 18 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Award Festival, a nationwide, week-long feast of events, readings, author tours and book-inspired games, kicks off.
12 – 16 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival (contact schools@writersfestival.co.nz for more information)
12 – 13 Going West: Book and Writers Festival Waitakeri City
15 International Day of Families*
16 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
17 World Information Society Day*
18 Workchoice Day *
19 World Hepatitis Day*
19 NZ Post Book Awards, Awards Ceremony 21 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Award. All winners will be announced at an awards ceremony held at Auckland Museum*
21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development *
21 Ascension Day
21 – 28 National Dignity Week
21 – 23 World Vision 40 hours Famine: see World Famine Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas
21 – 30 Youth Week
22 International Day for Biological Diversity*
24 International Women's Day for Peace and disarmamend*
24 – 30 Child Protection Week
25 International Missing Children Day*
25 Africa Liberation Day* 
25 – 4 June Queenstown Winter Festival
28 – 30 Buddhist Wesak
29 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay reach summit of Everest
29 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers*
29 – 4 June World Week for Peace for Palestine and Israel
30 Mayday*
31 World No Tobacco Day
June / Hune
Winter 1 June – 31 August
In the Pink Auction June International Men's Month
Great Outdoors Month National River Month
National Dairy Month National Rose Month
3 1989: Tianammen Square massacre
4 International Day of Innocent Children’s Victims of Aggression*
5 World Environment Day*
6 – 12 National Sun Safety Week
6 – 12 National Headache Awereness Week
7 Queens Birthday
8 1987: New Zealand becomes Nuclear free
8 World Ocean Day: see Sea Life display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas
9 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts after 600 years
Celebration 16 Dragon Boat Festival Auckland
26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking* 4 Independence Day USA*
4 International Day of Cooperatives*
5 – 11 Neurological Foundation Appeal Week
7 – 11 National Therapeutic Recreation Week
10 1985: Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland
11 World Population Day*
11 Disability Awareness Day
12 – 18 Captive Nations Week
12 – 18 Alzheimers New Zealand Appeal Week
14 1853: First General Election in New Zealand
18 1855: NZ's first postage stamps on sale
24 1955: Completion of Wellington electrec railway
24 Lifeline's Stress Down Day
25 Parents Day
26 – 1 August Maori Language Week / Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori
28 First World War start 1914*
28 World Nature Conservation Day*
30 – 31 Peugeot Hokonui Fashion Design Awards
August / Akuhata
National Immunization Awareness Month National Women's Month
National Parks Month Organ Donar Month
Happyness Happens Month Psoriasis Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
1 – 7 World Breastfeeding Week
2 – 6 Reumatic Fever Week
2 – 8 National Immunisation Awareness Week
3 – 10 Conservation Week. Theme: Keep New Zealand Beautiful. SeeConservation Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas
4 Constitution Day Cook Islands*
6 International Hiroshima Day*
7 1908: First direct train trip between Wellington and Auckland
8 1963: Britain's 'Great Train Robbery'
9 International Nagasaky Day*
9 International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People
9 – 15 VSA Project Friendship Week
12 1816: Frst school established in New Zealand
12 International Youth Day*
13 Lefthanders Day or Sinistrophobia*
9 – 15 Allotment Week
11 – 9 Sept. Ramadan Islamic
15 Independence Day India*
16 – 22 Library Week
15 – 21 National Aviation Week
15 – 21 International Languages Week
15 – 22 Storyline Fesival of NZ Children’s writers and Illustrators
16 – 22 Cystic Fibrosis week
23 – 29 Australasian Rail Safety Awareness Week
23 International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade*
24 – 31 African Traditional Medicine Week
25 – 30 Be Kind to Humankind Week
26 Woman Equality Day
27 Daffodil Day
29 – 4 September MS Appeal Week
30 - 5 September ADD/ADHD Awareness Week
30 National Cup Cake Day for the SPCA
September / Hepetema
National Cholesterol Education Month Baby Safety Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Gynaecological Cancer Awareness month Healthy Ageing Month
ADHD Month
Spring 1 Sept. – 30 November
1 NZ Gamble free Day
1 – 4 October Time for Creation
1 – 7 National Childhood Injure Prevention Week
3 1939: NZ declared war on Germany
5 Fathers Day
5 – 11 Suicide Prevention Week
6 – 11 Kidneys Awareness Week
8 International Literacy Day*
11 1928: The 'Southern Cross' completes first trans-Tasman flight
12 World First Aid Day
14 – 17 Stroke Week
15 International Day of Democracy*
16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozon layer *
19 1893: Women's Suffrage Day
19 – 25 Deaf Awareness Week
19 – 25 Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
21 World Alzheimer Day
21 International Day of Peace*
21 – 23 Harvest Moon Festival Korea
21 – 27 National Rehebalitation Awareness Week
21 – 28 Arthritis New Zealand Appeal Week
22 Chinese Moon Festival
24 – 4 October 
World of Wearable Art
24 Dating Day
25 – 2 October Banned Books Week
25 - 3 October Age Concern Awareness Week
26 World Contraception Day
27 -1 October International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
27 Canterbury South Anniversary Day
29 1958: The firest 111 Emergency Service introduced
October / Oketopa
Global Breast Cancer Awareness Month Vegetarian Awareness Month
Class Reunion Month
Family Health Month Diversity Awareness Month
National Animal Protection and Safety Month
NZ Book Month
1 World Vegetarian Day
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1 International Music Day
1 International Day of Older Persons*
2 International Day of Non Violence (Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday)*
3 Badger Day
3 – 9 Fire Prevention Week
4 World Animal Day*
4 World Habitat Day
4 – 8 Customer Service Week
4 – 10 Mental Health Foundation NZ Awareness week
4 -12 World Space Week
5 World Teacher Day*
5 National Poetry Day
4 World Habitat Day
7 – 1769: Captain Cook lands in Poverty Bay
8 – 10 Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year
9 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day*
9 World Post Day*
10 1975: Waitangi Tribunal set up
10 World Mental Health Day*
10 International Day Against the Death Penalty
11 Columbus Day
11 Diwali Indian Festival of Lights
12 World Arthritis Day
15 – 19 National Obesity Week
16 1936: Jean Batten flies solo from U.K. to N.Z.
16 World Food Day
17 International Day of Eradication of Poverty
17 – 23 Teen Read Week
18 – 24 Osteoporosis Awareness Week
21 International Day of Peace*: see Peace Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas
22 Stuttering Awareness Day*
22 Hawkes Bay Anniversary Day
24 United Nations Day*
24 World Development Information Day
24 – 30 Disarmament Week
26 Labour Day
26 – 1 November Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Week Appeal
27 – 3 November Save the Children Appeal Week
31 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Awards (first submission deadline)
31 Halloween*
November / Noema
Red Ribbon Month Lung Cancer Awareness Week
National Hospice Month
National Inspirational Roll Models Month National Novel Writing Month
1 Leukaemia & Blood Foundation – Leukaemia Appeal Week
1 The CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust Awareness week
1 Marlborough Anniversary Day
2 1898: Old Age Pension Act passes into law
5 Guy Fawkes Day*
5 – 9 National Care Week
6 International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts*
8 – 14 World Kindness Week
8 – 14 Spirit Week
9 World Freedom Day
10 World Science Day for Peace and Development
11 International Mountain Day
12 Canterbury Anniversary Day
14 World Diabetes Day*
14 – 20 National Hunger and Homelessness Week
16 International Day of Tolerance*
16 Eid ul-Adha Islamic*
17 International Students Day*
17 Eid ul-Fitr Islamic
19 World Toilet Day* 
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20 International Transgender Day*
20 Universal Children Day*
20 – 27 National Geography Awereness Week
21 World Television Day *
22 – 28 National Family Week
25 International Day for the Elimination of violence against women*
25 White Ribbon Day, for the elimination of all violence
27 Thanksgiving USA*
29 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People*
29 Westland Anniversary Day
30 Chatham Islands Anniversary Day
December / Tihema
Summer 1 Dec. – 28 February
6 World Allergy Day
10 Human Rights Day *19 International Men’s Day*
24 Christmas Eve
see: Christmas display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com display ideas for display ideas.31 World Peace Meditation Day
31 New Years Eve 
* United Nations Calendar
2011
International Year of Forests
Year of Volunteering
Year of the Rabbit – Chinese Calendar
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Fabulous!
Thanks very much – I have spent weeks searching the internet for significant weeks to celebrate and make displays for in my new job as School Librarian – now I’v found what I need!
Thanks for a really helpful resource.
I wonder if I might add that October is NZ Book Month and November is Fruit & Vege month. Both are BIG events in our library.
How bad am I that its taken me all year to find the time to actually look thru the whole site & not just use specific display ideas. You have made my day, week, YEAR – now that Ive learnt you have the calender for the year I can plan ahead for 2010. lots of cuddles coming yr way. THANKS