May facts:

Birthstone = Emerald

1st
May day

1st
May Morning Service
Magdalen College Tower, Oxford

1st
Hobby Horse (Obby Oss) Festival
Padstow Cornwall

1st
Hobby Horse Festival
Minehead, Somerset

1st
Beltane – Wicca Northern Hemisphere
Samhain – Wicc Southern Hemisphere

1st weekend in May
1000 and 2000 Guineas Stakes races
Newmarket

2nd
Twelfth day of Ridvan – Baha’i

2nd – 10th
National Windsurfing Week

4th
May Day Bank Holiday UK & ROI (First Monday in May every year)

FA Women’s Cup Final
Pride Park, Derby County FC

8th
Furry (or Flora) Dance
Helston, Cornwall

9th
Buddha Day, Visakha Puja, Vesak – Buddhist

World Fair Trade Day

13th
Garland Day
Abbotsbury, Dorset

15th
International Day of Families

17th
International Day Against Homophobia

20th
Weighing the Mayor
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

23rd
Declaration of the Bab – Baha’i

23rd
Mayoring Day
Rye, Sussex

Rugby Heinekin Cup
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh

25th
Spring Bank Holiday

25th
Cheese Rolling at Coopers Hill

25th
Maypole Dancing
Ickwell, Bedfordshire

26th
Blessing the Sea
Hastings, Sussex

27th
Zartusht No Diso – Zoroastrian

29th
Oak Apple Day

29th
Founder’s Day
Royal Hospital, Chelsea

29th
Garland Day
Castleton, nr Tideswell, Derbyshire

29th
Grovely Forest Rights Procession
Wishford Magna, Wiltshire

29th
Shavuot – Jewish
Ascension of Baha’u'llah – Baha’i

27th
Ascension Eve
Planting the Penny Hedge
Boyes Staith, Whitby, Yorkshire

28th
Ascension Day – Orthodox Christian
Well Dressing
Tissington, Derbyshire

30th
FA Cup Final

31st
Pentecost – Christian
Lag B’Omer – Jewish