The Roman Calendar
January:
1 - Festival of Juno, festival of Aesculapius, Festival of Vediovis
3 - Compitalia to the Lares Compitales begins, Festival of Pax
4 - Compitalia to the Lares Compitales continues
5 - Last day of Compitalia to the Lares Compitales, Dedication of the shrine of
Vica Pota commemorated
8 - Festival of Justitia
9 - Agonalia to Janus
11 - Carmentalia to Carmenta, Juturnalia to Juturna
12 - Compitalia to the Lares
13 - Conferring of the title "Augustus" on Octavian commemorated
15 - Carmentalia to Carmenta
16 - Festival of Concordia
17 - Festival of Felicitas
19 - Fornacalia begins
20 - Fornacalia continues
21 - Fornacalia continues
22 - Fornacalia continues
23 - Fornacalia continues
24 - Fornacalia continues, Sementivae (Paganalia) begins
25 - Fornacalia continues, Sementivae (Paganalia) continues
26 - Fornacalia continues, Last day of Sementivae (Paganalia)
27 - Fornacalia continues
28 - Fornacalia continues
29 - Fornacalia continues
30 - Fornacalia continues, Dedication of Altar of Peace commemorated
31 - Fornacalia continues
February:
1 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Juno
Sospita begins
2 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Ceres, Festival of Juno Sospita ends
3 - Fornacalia continues
4 - Fornacalia continues
5 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia begins, Augustus receiving the
title of "pater patriae" commemorated
6 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues
7 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues, First day of Spring
8 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues
9 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues
10 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues
11 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues
12 - Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues, Festival of Callisto
13 - Parentalia begins, Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues,
Festival of Vesta, Festival of Faunus, Commemoration of the fallen Fabii
14 - Parentalia continues, Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues
15 - Parentalia continues, Lupercalia to Faunus, Fornacalia continues, Festival
of Concordia continues
16 - Parentalia continues, Fornacalia continues, Festival of Concordia continues
17 - Parentalia continues, Last day of Fornacalia, Last day of festival of
Concordia, Quirinalia to Quirinus, Festival of Fornax
18 - Parentalia continues
19 - Parentalia continues
20 - Parentalia continues
21 - Last day of Parentalia, Feralia to Jupiter
22 - Festival of Concordia, Caristia in which family quarrels are forgotten
(Cara Cognatio)
23 - Terminalia to Terminus
24 - Regifugium to commemorate the expulsion of Tarquin
27 - Equirria to Mars
March:
1 - Matronalia to Juno, festival of Vesta,
Feriae Marti to Mars begins
2 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
3 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
4 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
5 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
6 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Incense offered on Vesta's altar
7 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Matronalia to Juno, Festival of Vediovis
8 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Festival of Ariadne and Bacchus
9 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
10 - Festival of Venus
11 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
12 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
13 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
14 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Equrria to Mars, Mamuralia to Mamurius
15 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Festival of Anna Perenna, Festival of
Jupiter
16 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Bacchanalia to Bacchus begins
17 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Last day of Bacchanalia to Bacchus,
Liberalia to Liber & Libera, Agonalia to Mars
18 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues
19 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Quinquatrus to Mars & Minerva begins
20 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Quinquatrus to Mars & Minerva continues
21 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Quinquatrus to Mars & Minerva continues
22 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Quinquatrus to Mars & Minerva continues
23 - Feriae Marti to Mars continues, Last day of Quinquatrus to Mars &
Minerva, Tubilustrium during which war trumpets are purified
24 - Perhaps last day of Feriae Marti to Mars, Quando Rex Comitiavit (unknown
purpose)
30 - Festival of Salus
31 - Festival of Luna
April:
1 - Veneralia to Venus Verticordia and Fortuna
Virilis, Festival of Ceres
2 - Festival of the Pleiades
4 - Megalesia to Cybele begins
5 - Megalesia to Cybele continues, Festival of Fortuna
6 - Megalesia to Cybele continues
7 - Megalesia to Cybele continues
8 - Megalesia to Cybele continues
9 - Megalesia to Cybele continues, Lumeria in honor of the Lemures
10 - Last day of Megalesia to Cybele
11 - Festival of Ceres begins
12 - Festival of Ceres continues
13 - Festival of Ceres continues
14 - Festival of Ceres continues
15 - Fordicidia to Terra Mater, festival of Ceres continues, festival of Venus
16 - Festival of Ceres continues
17 - Festival of Ceres continues
18 - Festival of Ceres continues
19 - Festival of Ceres ends with the Cerealia
21 - Palilia (or Parilia) to Pales, festival of Venus
23 - Vinalia Prioria to Venus
25 - Robigalia to Robigus
28 - Floralia to Flora begins, festival of Vesta
29 - Floralia to Flora continues
30 - Floralia to Flora continues
May:
1 - Last day of Floralia to Flora (also said
to end on the 3rd), festival of Amalthea, dog statue offered to the Lares,
dedication of the temple of Bona Dea commemorated
3 - Festivals of Bona Dea begins at dusk, festival of Chiron, Hercules, and
Achilles
4 - Festival of Bona Dea ends at dawn
7 - Lemuria in honor of the dead begins
8 - Lemuria in honor of the dead continues, Festival of Mens
9 - Lemuria in honor of the dead continues
10 - Lemuria in honor of the dead continues, festival of Orion begins
11 - Lemuria in honor of the dead continues, Matralia to Matuta, last day of
festival of Orion
12 - Lemuria in honor of the dead continues, dedication of the temple of Mars
Ultor commemorated
13 - Lemuria in honor of the dead continues, Quinquatrus to Minerva
14 - Lemuria in honor of the dead continues, Tibernalia to Tiberinus, festival
of Taurus
15 - Last day of Lemuria in honor of the dead, Mercuralia to Mercury, festival
of Vesta
20 - Festival of Castor and Pollux
21 - Agonalia to Veiovis
23 - Tubilustrium to Vulcan
24 - Quando Rex Comitiavit
26 - Festival of Diana begins, Secular Games to Proserpina begin
27 - Festival of Diana continues, Secular Games to Proserpina continue
28 - Festival of Diana continues, Secular Games to Proserpina continue
29 - Festival of Diana continues, Secular Games to Proserpina continue
30 - Festival of Diana continues, Secular Games to Proserpina continue
31 - Last day of festival of Diana, Secular Games to Proserpina continue
June:
1 - Festival of Carna, festival of Juno
begins, Secular Games to Proserpina continue, festival of Terra Mater begins,
dedication of temple of Juno Moneta commemorated, festival of Mars, festival of
stormy weather
2 - Festival of Juno ends, Secular Games to Proserpina continue, festival of
Terra Mater continues
3 - Festival of Bellona, last day of Secular Games to Proserpina, last day of
festival of Terra Mater
4 - Festival of Hercules the Guardian
5 - Festival of Sancus
7 - Vestalia to Vesta begins, holiday for fishermen
8 - Vestalia to Vesta continues, festival of good sense
9 - Vestalia to Vesta continues, defeat of Crassus by the Parthians commemorated
10 - Vestalia to Vesta continues
11 - Vestalia to Vesta continues, Matralia to Mater Matuta, Festival of Fortuna,
dedication of temple of Concord commemorated
12 - Vestalia to Vesta continues
13 - Vestalia to Vesta continues, Quinquatrus to Minerva
14 - Vestalia to Vesta continues
15 - Last day of Vestalia to Vesta, Quando Stercus Delatum (all the trash from
the previous festivals is thrown into the Tiber)
17 - Ludi Piscatori to Tiberinus
20 - Festival of Aesculapius and Hippolytus
21 - Festival of Oraea
22 - Defeat at Lake Trasimene commemorated
23 - Festival of Venus begins
24 - Festival of Venus ends, festival of Vesta, festival of Fata, festival of
Fors Fortuna
27 - Festival of Aestas
July:
4 - Festival of Pax
5 - Poplifugia to Jupiter
6 - Games of Apollo begin
7 - Nonae Caprotinae to Juno
8 - Festival of Juno, Games of Apollo continue
9 - Games of Apollo continue
10 - Games of Apollo continue
11 - Games of Apollo continue
12 - Games of Apollo continue
13 - Last day of Games of Apollo
19 - Lucaria to commemorate sack of Rome by the Gauls and the subsequent
destruction of the Gallic army, festival of Venus
21 - Lucaria to commemorate sack of Rome by the Gauls and the subsequent
destruction of the Gallic army
23 - Neptunalia to Neptune
25 - Furrinalia to Furrina
August:
1 - Festival of Ceres
9 - Festival of Sol Indigis
10 - Festival of Ops
12 - Festival of Hercules
13 - Vertumnalia to Vertumnus, Festival of Diana
15 - Festival of Diana
17 - Portunalia to Portunes, Tibernalia to Tiberinus
19 - Vinalia to Jupiter, Vinalia Rustica to Venus
21 - Consualia to Consus
23 - Vulcanalia to Vulcan, festival of Juturna
24 - Festival of Ceres
25 - Opiconsivia to Ops Consivia
27 - Volturnalia to Volturnus
September:
5 - Ludi Romani begin
6 - Ludi Romani continue
7 - Ludi Romani continue
8 - Ludi Romani continue
9 - Ludi Romani continue
10 - Ludi Romani continue
11 - Ludi Romani continue
12 - Ludi Romani continue
13 - Ludi Romani continue
14 - Ludi Romani continue
15 - Ludi Romani continue
16 - Ludi Romani continue
17 - Ludi Romani continue
18 - Ludi Romani continue
19 - Last day of Ludi Romani
23 - Festival of Ceres
October:
1 - Festival of Ceres, festival of Fides
4 - Festival of Ceres begins
5 - Festival of Ceres ends
9 - Festival of Venus, festival of Felicitas
11 - Meditrinalia to Meditrina
12 - Festival of Fortuna Redux
13 - Fontinalia to Fontus
15 - Equirria to Mars
19 - Armilustrium to Mars
November:
4 - Plebeian Games begin
5 - Plebeian Games continue
6 - Plebeian Games continue
7 - Plebeian Games continue
8 - Plebeian Games continue
9 - Plebeian Games continue
10 - Plebeian Games continue
11 - Plebeian Games continue
12 - Plebeian Games continue
13 - Plebeian Games continue, festival of Jupiter, Festival of Juno
14 - Plebeian Games continue
15 - Plebeian Games continue, Festival of Feronia
16 - Plebeian Games continue
17 - Last day of Plebeian Games
18 - Festival of Ceres
December:
1 - Festival of Poseidon
3 - Festival of Bona Dea, festival of Ceres
5 - Faunalia to Faunus
9 - Opalia to Ops
11 - Agonium to Janus, Agonalia to Sol Indiges
13 - Sementivae to Tellus
15 - Consualia to Consus
17 - Saturnalia to Saturn begins
18 - Saturnalia to Saturn continues
19 - Saturnalia to Saturn continues, Opalia to Ops
20 - Saturnalia to Saturn continues
21 - Saturnalia to Saturn continues, Divalia, festival of Angerona
22 - Saturnalia to Saturn continues
23 - Last day of Saturnalia to Saturn, Larentia to Acca Larentia, Larentalia to
Larenta
25 - Opiconsivia to Ops