The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Commemoration of a person or event
8 December
East Asian tradition. Observed on other dates elsewhere.
Feast / celebration
8 December
Feast / celebration
25 Kislev to 2 or 3 Tevet
Day 1 of 8
Runs into Tevet, since Kislev has twenty-nine or thirty days.
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.