January
1: Haiti Independence Day. French rule ends. 1804
4: C.L.R. James birthday, 1901 (d. 31 May 1989)
15: Martin Luther King Jr birthday, 1929 (d. 4 April 1968)
18: New Cross house fire, 1981
February
6: Bob Marley birthday, 1945 (d. 11 May 1981)
7: Grenada Independence Day, 1974
22: Saint Lucia Independence Day, 1979
23: Berbice slave uprising, 1763
23: Jessica Huntley birthday, 1927 (d. 13 October 2013)
March
2: Black People’s Day of Action, 1981
6: Ghana Independence Day, 1957
8: International Women’s Day
13: Grenadian Revolution 1979
23: Walter Rodney birthday, 1942 (d. 13 June 1980)
April
1: First International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books opened by C.L.R. James, 1982
7: Toussaint L’Ouverture died in prison, 1803 (born 1743)
18: Zimbabwe Independence Day, 1980
29: International Dance Day (UNESCO)
30: International Jazz Day (UNESCO)
May
1: Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire
5: Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)
17: Death of Kelso Cochrane, 1959
19: Malcolm X birthday, 1925 (d. 21 February 1965)
22: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin commemorate emancipation
26: Guyana independence, 1966
29: Maurice Bishop birthday, 1944 (d. 19 October 1983)
June
13: Walter Rodney assassinated, 1980
14: Che Guevara birthday, 1928 (d. 9 October 1967)
22: Windrush Day
28: George Padmore, 1903 (d. 23 September 1959)
29: Seychelles independence, 1976
July
3: US Virgin Islands celebrates Emancipation Day
5: Venezuela Independence Day, 1811
6: Malawi independence, 1964
10: The Bahamas Independence Day, 1973
18: Nelson Mandela birthday, 1918 (d. 5 December 2013)
20: Colombia Independence Day, 1810
23-25: First Pan-African Conference, London, 1900
24: Simon Bolivar birthday 1783 (d. 17 December 1830)
August
1: Emancipation Day
6: Jamaica independence, 1962
9: South Africa National Women’s Day
13: Fidel Castro birthday, 1926 (d. 25 November 2016)
13: Richard Hart birthday, 1917 (d. 21 December 2013)
16: Marikana massacre, 2012
17: Marcus Garvey birthday, 1887 (d. 10 June 1940)
23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
31: Trinidad and Tobago independence, 1962
September
7: Brazil Independence Day, 1822
15: Nicaragua Independence Day, 1821
19: Saint Kitts and Nevis Independence Day, 1983
21: Belize Independence Day, 1981
October
1: Nigeria independence, 1960
10: Cuba Commencement of the Wars of Independence
12: International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People.
15-25: Fifth Pan-African Congress, Manchester, 1945
27: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Independence Day, 1979
November
1: Antigua and Barbuda Independence Day, 1981
3: Christopher Columbus first sights Dominica, 1493
3: Dominica Independence Day, 1978
15: Palestine National Day, independent State of Palestine proclaimed by PNC. 1988
19: International Men’s Day
25: Suriname Independence Day, 1975
30: Barbados Independence Day, 1966
December
1: World AIDS Day
9: Tanzania Independence Day, 1961
12: Kenya independence, 1963
16: South Africa Day of Reconciliation
19: Anguilla National Heroes and Heroines Day
27: John La Rose birthday, 1927 (d. 28 February 2006)