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)