COVENANTAL CIVIC CALENDAR — YEAR 2026
January 1, 2026 → January 1, 2027
JANUARY 2026 — AUTHORITY DECLARED
Thursday, January 1, 2026
– Anniversary: Emancipation Proclamation (Jan 1, 1863)
– Opening of the annual covenantal cycle
Monday, January 19, 2026
– Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday
– Moral authority and covenantal witness
FEBRUARY 2026 — PREPARATION & MEMORY
Thursday, February 12, 2026
– Anniversary: Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
Monday, February 16, 2026
– Washington’s Birthday (Presidents Day)
MARCH 2026 — LIBERATION MEETS RESPONSIBILITY
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
– Anniversary: Freedmen’s Bureau Act (Mar 3, 1865)
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
– Anniversary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (Mar 4, 1865)
Friday, March 13, 2026
– Anniversary: House passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Friday, March 27, 2026
– Anniversary: President Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act (1866)
APRIL 2026 — LAW, SACRIFICE & MARTYRDOM
Thursday, April 9, 2026
– Anniversary: Congress overrides veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866 becomes law
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
– Anniversary: Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (1865)
Saturday, April 4, 2026
– Anniversary: Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)
MAY 2026 — MEMORY & SERVICE
May 15, 2026
– Official End of Civil War To Liberate the Chattel Slaves
Monday, May 25, 2026
– Memorial Day
– Honoring military service, including Black federal citizens and Buffalo Soldiers
(Seasonal Reference)
– Buffalo Soldiers (1866–1870)
– Early federal military service following emancipation
– First sustained deployments against Indigenous Nations, including:
Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache, under federal command
JUNE 2026 — FREEDOM ANNOUNCEMENT COMPLETED
Friday, June 19, 2026
– Anniversary: Juneteenth (June 19, 1865)
– Freedom reaches the last enslaved Americans
JULY 2026 — COVENANT CONSTITUTIONALIZED
Saturday, July 4, 2026
– Independence Day (250th Anniversary year context)
Thursday, July 9, 2026
– Anniversary: 14th Amendment ratified (July 9, 1868)
Friday, July 17, 2026
– Anniversary: Second Confiscation Act (1862)
AUGUST 2026 — RETURN & WARNING
Thursday, August 6, 2026
– Anniversary: First Confiscation Act (1861)
Saturday, August 29, 2026
– 63rd Commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington
– National return to covenantal promise
SEPTEMBER 2026 — JUDGMENT & DECISION
Thursday, September 17, 2026
– Anniversary: U.S. Constitution signed (1787)
– Anniversary: Battle of Antietam (1862)
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
– Anniversary: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
OCTOBER 2026 — LAW & INSTITUTIONS
(October – no fixed civic anniversary)
– Reflection on Supreme Court milestones
– Federal interpretation of constitutional promises
NOVEMBER 2026 — LEADERSHIP & LOSS
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
– U.S. General Election Day
Sunday, November 22, 2026
– Anniversary: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1963)
(Seasonal WWII Placement)
– World War II (1939–1945)
– Black and Jewish Americans confront global tyranny
– Genocide abroad; unfinished justice at home
DECEMBER 2026 — FREEDOM SECURED, LIGHT PRESERVED
Sunday, December 6, 2026
– Anniversary: 13th Amendment ratified (Dec 6, 1865)
Friday, December 18, 2026
– Anniversary: Formal certification of slavery’s abolition (1865)
(Hanukkah season – variable dates)
– Survival of covenantal light when institutions fail
RETURN TO THE BEGINNING
Friday, January 1, 2027
– Cycle renews
– Re-entry into Emancipation Proclamation Day