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:
“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)