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/January
The worldwide friends network of the Pasporta Servo, an international hospitality service for Esperanto speakers.
/February
The very first printing of the Unua Libro, the first Esperanto textbook, for Russian speakers in 1887.
/March
The Esperanto jubilee symbol (jubilea simbolo), created in 1987 to mark the 100th anniversary of language. Today, it is used alongside the more traditional flag and green star as symbols of Esperanto.
/April
The Central Office of World Esperanto Association in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It is the headquarters of the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers.
/May
The reading room of the Hector Hodler Library, one of the largest Esperanto libraries in the world, with approximately 30,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, photos, and music samples in its collections.
/June
Esperanto books for sale at the World Congress of Esperanto in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2008.
/July
Kontakto is an Esperanto magazine published by TEJO and supported by World Esperanto Association that has readers in about 90 countries around the world.
/August
The first World Congress of Esperanto in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France on August 6, 1905.
/September
Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859-1917) was a Polish ophthalmologist and philologist who is best known as the inventor of Esperanto.
/October
The Esperanto Braille Alphabet, a modified Braille alphabet adapted for Esperanto's unique 28-letter alphabet. The regular use of ĉ, ĝ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ, as well as the somewhat less frequent ĥ, is a distinct feature of Esperanto. The last four letters shown are not used when writing Esperanto, but q, w, x and y may occasionally appear in people's names or in foreign words.
/November
Esperanto in use on a display at the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Húsavík, Iceland.
/December
Festival on December 14, the eve of Zamenhof Day, celebrated by the Esperanto group Senlime in Kelmis, Belgium, formerly Neutral Moresnet.