January
- New Year's Day: 1 January - First day of the Gregorian year
- Saint Basil's Day: 1 January (Christian Orthodox) In Greece, traditionally he is the Father Christmas figure.
- Twelfth Night: Epiphany Eve: 5 January
- Epiphany: 6 January: the arrival of the Three Magi.
- Armenian Apostolic Christmas: 6 January
- Chinese New Year: (late January - early February) - considered the end of winter in the traditional Chinese calendar
Read more about this topic: List Of Winter Festivals
Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days—whatever there may be for the dust—the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)