Date
| Event, Place, Year
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| January
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January 1 | Emancipation Proclamation, Washington, DC (USA), 1863
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January 6 | Four Freedoms speech of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941
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January 8 | President Woodrow Wilson's 14 points for peace after World War I, 1918
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January 15 | Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929
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January 27 | International Holocaust Memorial Day = Anniversary of Auschwitz liberation (Poland), 1945
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January 30 | Ara Pacis Augustae/Altar of Augustan Peace, Rome (Italy), 9 BCE
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January 30 | Martyrs' Day = Anniversary of Gandhi assassination (India), 1948
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| February
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February 1 | Black college students' sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter, Greensboro, NC (USA), 1960
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February 7 | Maastricht Treaty creating the European Union, 1992
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February 11 | Nelson Mandela's release from prison (South Africa), 1990
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February 17 | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) (United Kingdom), 1958
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| March
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March 1 | "Lucky Dragon" fishing boat exposed to nuclear radiation (Pacific Ocean), 1954
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March 1 | World Friendship Day, 2005
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March 7 | Anniversary of "Bloddy Sunday," Selma, Alabama (1965)
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March 13 | Cristo Redentor de los Andes/Christ of the Andes, Uspallata Pass (between Argentina & Chile), 1904
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March 15 | Holocaust History Museum, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem (Israel), 2005
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March 21 | Headquarters building, U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington, DC (USA), 2011
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March 25 | Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (United Kingdom), 1807
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March 30 | Land Day = Anniversary of Israeli land expropriation (Palestine), 1976
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March 30 | Wall for Peace, Champs de Mars, Paris (France), 2000
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| April
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April 4 | First Aldermaston March for nuclear disarmament, 1958
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April 4 | Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee (USA) 1968
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April 6 | Dandi Salt March by Mahatma Gandhi (India), 1930
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April 10 | Good Friday Agreement, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1998.
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April 14 | Death of Ludwig Zamenhof (creator of Esperanto), Warsaw (Poland), 1917
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April 15 | Universal Day of Culture Under the Banner of Peace (Nicholas Roerich), 1935
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April 22 | Earth Day, 1969
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April 22 | U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC (USA), 1993
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April 26 | Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, DC (USA), 1910 CARNEGIE
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April 26 | Bombing of Guernika (Spain), 1937
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April 27 | Freedom Day in South Africa (end of Apartheid), 1994
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April 28 | Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) = Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1943 (Actually 27th day of Nisan on Hebrew calendar)
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| May
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May 15 | Nakba Day ("Day of the Catastrophe") in Palestine, 1948
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May 15 | International Conscientious Objectors Day
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May 18 | Peace Day proposed by Intl Council of Women (Opening day 1st Hague Peace Conf, 1899)
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May 27 | Peace Parks Foundation, Stellenbosch (South Africa), 1990
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| June
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June 2 | Mother's Day for Peace proposed by Julia Ward Howe (USA), 1872
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June 4 | Tiananmen Square Protests, also called June Fourth Incident & 1989 Democracy Movement
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June 7 | International Museum of War & Peace, Luzern/Lucerne (Switzerland), 1902
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June 8 | Japanese Peace Bell, United Nations Headquarters, New York (USA), 1954
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June 12 | Birth of Anne Frank, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 1929
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June 14 | London Peace Society (England), 1816
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June 15 | Second Hague Peace Conference, The Hague (Netherlands), 1907
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June 15 | International Day of Nonviolence, 2007
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June 17 | Peace Carillon, Belle Isle Park, Detroit River, Detroit, Michigan (USA), 1940
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June 18 | Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (betweeen Canada & USA), 1932
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June 21 | Death of Bertha von Suttner, Vienna (Austria), 1914
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June 23 | International Olympic Committee, 1894
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June 26 | United Nations Charter, San Francisco (USA), 1945
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June 26 | International Court of Justice, The Hague (Netherlands), 1945 CARNEGIE
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June 28 | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo, 1914
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June 28 | Treaty of Versailles (France), 1919
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| July
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July 1 | Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968
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July 1 | International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague (Netherlands), 2002 CARNEGIE
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July 4 | Independence Day = Anniversary of Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia (USA) 1776
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July 7 | Death of Peace Pilgrim, Knox, Indiana (USA), 1981
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July 10 | Massacre of Jews, Jedwabne, Poland, 1941
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July 10 | "Rainbow Warrior" sunk by French, Auckland (New Zealand), 1985
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July 14 | Bastille Day (France), 1789
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July 14 | International Peace Garden (between Canada & USA), 1932
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July 16 | First nuclear explosion (Trinity Test), Alamagordo, New Mexico (USA), 1945
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July 20 | Declaration of Rights & Sentiments, Seneca Falls, New York (USA), 1848
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July 22 | World Bank & International Monetary Fund, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (USA), 1944
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| August
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August 1 | Abolition of Slavery in British Empire, 1838
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August 5 | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Moscow (USSR), 1963
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August 6 | First atomic bomb, Hiroshima (Japan), 1945
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August 7 | Peace Bridge (between Canada & USA), 1927
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August 9 | Second atomic bomb, Nagasaki (Japan), 1945
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August 11 | Death of Andrew Carnegie, Lenox, Massachusetts (USA), 1919 CARNEGIE
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August 16 | Fredsmonument/Peace Monument, Morokulien (between Norway & Sweden), 1914
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August 18 | Ratification of 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage in USA), 1920
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August 21 | U.S. Bill of Rights (USA), 1789
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August 22 | First Geneva Convention (Switzerland), 1864
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August 23 | Vienna International Centre (VIC), UN Office at Vienna (UNOV), Vienna (Austria), 1979
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August 26 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France), 1789
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August 28 | Vredespaleis/Peace Palace, The Hague (Netherlands), 1913 CARNEGIE
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August 28 | "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., March on Washington, DC (USA), 1963
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August 29 | International Day against Nuclear Tests, since 2009
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| September
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September 1 | Peace Park, Ankara (Turkey), 1953
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September 6 | International Peace Arch (between Canada & USA), 1921
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September 7 | Foundation stone laid for Palais des Nations, Geneva (Switzerland), 1929
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September 9 | Protest by Plowshares Eight, King-of-Prussia, Pennsylvania (USA), 1980
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September 11 | Swami Vivekananda's address to the Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago (USA), 1893
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September 11 | Satyagraha speech by Mahatma Gandhi, Johannesburg (South Africa), 1906
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September 11 | Terrorist attack on World Trade Center & Pentagon (USA) 2001
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September 14 | Settlement of the Alabama Claims, Geneva (Switzerland), 1872
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September 17 | "Peace & Human Happiness" by Marc Chagall, United Nations, New York (USA), 1964
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September 19 | Electoral Bill for women's suffrange (New Zealand), 1893
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September 20 | Hiroshima Peace Bell, Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima (Japan), 1964
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September 21 | World Peace Day (Equinox in Southern Hemisphere), 1982
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September 27 | World Tourism Day, UN World Tourism Organization, since 1980.
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| October
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October 1 | Sentencing by International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg (Germany), 1946
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October 2 | Birth of Mahatma Gandhi (India), 1869
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October 3 | Reunification of Germany, 1990
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October 9 | Lennon "Imagine Peace" Tower, Videy Island, Reykjavik (Iceland), 2007
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October 24 | Cornerstone of United Nations Headquarters Building, New York (USA), 1949
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October 25 | Death of Sadako Sasaki, Hiroshima (Japan), 1955
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October 28 | Statue of Liberty, New York (USA), 1886
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October 29 | Foundation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva (Switzerland), 1863
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| November
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November 9 | Kristallnacht/Night of Broken Glass (Germany & Austria), 1938
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November 9 | Fall of Berlin Wall (Germany), 1989
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November 11 | Armistice Day = Anniversary of WW-I Ceasefire, 1918
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November 16 | UN Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris (France), 1945
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November 25 | Birth of Andrew Carnegie, Dunfirmline (Scotland), 1835 CARNEGIE
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November 25 | International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 1999
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| December
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December 1 | International Peace Bureau (IPB), Bern (Switzerland), 1891
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December 7 | United Nations Flag, 1946
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December 8 | Assassination of John Lennon, New York (USA), 1980
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December 10 | Nobel Peace Prize Award Day (since 1901) = Anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896
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December 10 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Paris (France), 1948
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December 11 | Kyoto Protocol to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto (Japan), 1997
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December 14 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), Washington, DC (USA), 1910 CARNEGIE
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December 15 | Zamenhof Day (aka Esperanto Day), 1878
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December 31 | World Peace Bell, Newport, Kentucky (USA), 1999
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