Educators' Calendar: United Kingdom

May 2021

25th April

25

26th April

26

27th April

27

28th April

28

29th April

29

30th April

30

1st May

1

25th April

26th April

27th April

28th April

29th April

30th April

1st May

May Bank Holiday

Act of Union Formed Britain (1707)

Penny Black Stamp First Sold (1840)

Great Exhibition Opened (1851)

2nd May

2

3rd May

3

4th May

4

5th May

5

6th May

6

7th May

7

8th May

8

2nd May

World Asthma Day

Soviet Union Announced Fall of Berlin (1945)

3rd May

4th May

International Fire-fighters Day

Margaret Thatcher Elected First Female Prime Minister (1979)

5th May

6th May

International Dawn Chorus Day

Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

Roger Bannister Ran Mile Under 4 Minutes (1954)

Channel Tunnel Opened (1994)

Scotland Elected Separate Parliament (1999)

7th May

Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Born (1840)

Lusitania Sunk (1915)

Germany Surrendered to Allies (1945)

May. 7-13
Compost Awareness Week

8th May

UNICEF Day for Change

World Red Cross/Red Crescent Day

9th May

9

10th May

10

11th May

11

12th May

12

13th May

13

14th May

14

15th May

15

9th May

Beatles Signed First Recording Contract (1962)

May. 9-15
Sun Awareness Week

10th May

Winston Churchill Became Prime Minister (1940)

'Nelson Mandela Became South Africa''s President' (1994)

11th May

HMS Beagle Launched (1820)

David Cameron Became Prime Minister (2010)

May. 11-17
British Sandwich Week

12th May

Eid-ul-Fitr (Muslim Holiday)

'Florence Nightingale''s Birthday' (1820)

13th May

World Fair Trade Day

Mary Queen of Scots Defeated at Battle of Langside (1568)

Pope John Paul II Shot & Wounded (1981)

14th May

First Smallpox Vaccine Administered (1796)

British Rule of Palestine Ended; Israel Formed (1948)

Warsaw Pact Signed (1955)

15th May

'International Conscientious Objectors'' Day'

International Day of Families

Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikh) (1563)

May. 15-19
Walk to School Week

May. 15-21
National Vegetarian Week

16th May

16

17th May

17

18th May

18

19th May

19

20th May

20

21st May

21

22nd May

22

16th May

Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI Married (1770)

First Woman Climbed Mount Everest (1975)

17th May

World Telecommunication Day

'Lag B''Omer (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown'

May. 17-19
Museums at Night

18th May

Helen Sharman Is First Briton in Space (1991)

19th May

Queen Anne Boleyn Beheaded (1536)

20th May

Charles Lindbergh Began Transatlantic Flight (1927)

21st May

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic (1932)

First Hydrogen Bomb Dropped by Air (1956)

Politician Rajiv Gandhi Assassinated (1991)

22nd May

First Battle in War of Roses (1455)

23rd May

23

24th May

24

25th May

25

26th May

26

27th May

27

28th May

28

29th May

29

23rd May

Zoologist Carolus Linnaeus Born (1707)

May. 23-27
RHS Chelsea Flower Show

24th May

European Day of Parks

First Telegraph Message Transmitted (1844)

Israeli Troops Pulled Out of Lebanon (2000)

25th May

'International Missing Children''s Day'

Ascension Day (Christian Feast Day)

Olympian Jesse Owens Broke Three World Records (1935)

26th May

Apartheid Introduced in South Africa (1948)

27th May

St. Petersburg Founded (1703)

Queen Mary Maiden Voyage (1936)

British Ships Sank Bismarck (1941)

28th May

Author Ian Fleming Born (1938)

Monkeys Survive Space Mission (1959)

29th May

Spring Bank Holiday

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers

Hillary and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest Summit (1953)

Boris Yeltsin Elected Russian President (1990)

30th May

30

31st May

31

1st June

1

2nd June

2

3rd June

3

4th June

4

5th June

5

30th May

Shavuot (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

Joan of Arc Burned at Stake (1431)

31st May

World No Tobacco Day

South Africa Became Independent (1961)

1st June

2nd June

3rd June

4th June

5th June

Month-Long Holidays and Events

Everyman Male Cancer Awareness Month

National Microchipping Month