May 20, 2024 AD
25 years of Vesak at the UN
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Global Buddhism
The missions of Sri Lanka and Thailand hosted a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of resolution 54/115 in the ECOSOC Chamber at UN Headquarters. The General Assembly president’s speech documents the event.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- day · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 20 may. 2024
- Calendar and convention
- Gregorian
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- ONU — discurso del presidente de la Asamblea General, 20 mayo 2024 (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2024-05-20
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2024-05-22
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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