January Holidays and Observances

Every fixed-date holiday and observance in January, from international days to national holidays and religious feast days. Select a day to see its full list. The dates are the same every year, so holidays whose date moves, such as Easter, are not listed. All entries come from Wikipedia.

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All January holidays by day

January 1

International

National and local

  • The last day of Kwanzaa (African Americans) Wikipedia
  • Jump-up Day (Montserrat) Wikipedia
  • New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar) Japanese New Year Wikipedia
  • New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar) Novy God Day (Russia) Wikipedia
  • Polar Bear Swim Day Wikipedia
  • Public Domain Day (multiple countries) Wikipedia
  • Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

  • Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
  • Feast of the Circumcision of Christ Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church) Wikipedia
  • Fulgentius of Ruspe Wikipedia
  • Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God; and its related observances: World Day of Peace Wikipedia
  • January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
  • The eighth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity) Wikipedia

What happened on January 1

January 2

National and local

  • Ancestry Day (Haiti) Wikipedia
  • Berchtold's Day (Switzerland) Wikipedia
  • The Day after New Year's Day (New Zealand) Wikipedia
  • Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa) Wikipedia
  • The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7 (Colombia) Wikipedia
  • Bank holiday (Scotland) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

  • Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England) Wikipedia
  • Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholic Church) Wikipedia
  • John the Good Wikipedia
  • Macarius of Alexandria Wikipedia
  • Blessed Marie Anne Blondin Wikipedia
  • Seraphim of Sarov (Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
  • Theodore of Marseille Wikipedia
  • Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (Episcopal Church) Wikipedia
  • January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
  • The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity) Wikipedia

What happened on January 2

January 3

National and local

  • Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan) Wikipedia

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What happened on January 3

January 4

International

National and local

  • Independence Day (Myanmar), celebrates the independence of Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948 Wikipedia
  • Colonial Martyrs Repression Day (Angola) Wikipedia
  • Day of the Martyrs (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Wikipedia
  • Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) Wikipedia
  • Tokyo Dome Show: The annual Wrestle Kingdom event run by New Japan Pro-Wrestling Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 4

January 5

International

  • Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China) Wikipedia

National and local

Religious feast days

  • Charles of Mount Argus Wikipedia
  • John Neumann (Catholic Church) Wikipedia
  • Pope Telesphorus Wikipedia
  • Simeon Stylites (Latin Church) Wikipedia
  • January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
  • The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity) Wikipedia

What happened on January 5

January 6

Religious feast days

  • André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church) Wikipedia
  • January 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
  • Christmas: Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church) Wikipedia
  • Christmas: Christmas Eve (Russia) Wikipedia
  • Christmas: Christmas Eve (Ukraine) Wikipedia
  • Epiphany or Three Kings' Day (Western Christianity) or Theophany (Eastern Christianity), and its related observances: Little Christmas (Ireland) Wikipedia
  • Epiphany or Three Kings' Day (Western Christianity) or Theophany (Eastern Christianity), and its related observances: Þrettándinn (Iceland) Wikipedia

What happened on January 6

January 7

National and local

Religious feast days

  • André Bessette (Canada) Wikipedia
  • Blessed Marie Thérèse Haze Wikipedia
  • Canute Lavard Wikipedia
  • Felix and Januarius Wikipedia
  • Lucian of Antioch Wikipedia
  • Raymond of Penyafort Wikipedia
  • Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian calendar) Wikipedia
  • January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
  • Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari) Christmas in Russia Wikipedia
  • Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari) Christmas in Ukraine Wikipedia
  • Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari) Christmas in Serbia Wikipedia
  • Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari) Ethiopian Christmas Wikipedia
  • Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari) Remembrance Day of the Dead (Armenia) Wikipedia

What happened on January 7

January 8

International

  • Typing Day (International observance) Wikipedia

National and local

  • Babinden (Belarus, Russia) Wikipedia
  • Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands) Wikipedia
  • Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. (Thailand) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 8

January 9

National and local

  • Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January 9–16 (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism) Wikipedia
  • Martyrs' Day (Panama) Wikipedia
  • Non-Resident Indian Day (India) Wikipedia
  • Day of Republika Srpska (Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, result of 2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum) (note: not celebrated and disputed in wider Bosnia and Herzegovina, having been declared unconstitutional in 2015) Wikipedia

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What happened on January 9

January 10

National and local

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January 11

National and local

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What happened on January 11

January 12

National and local

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What happened on January 12

January 13

National and local

  • Constitution Day (Mongolia) Wikipedia
  • Democracy Day (Cape Verde) Wikipedia
  • Gluten-free diet day Wikipedia
  • Liberation Day (Togo) Wikipedia
  • Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, North Macedonia), and its related observances: Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14): Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14): Lohri (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14): Uruka (Assam) Wikipedia
  • Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States) Wikipedia
  • Yennayer (Berbers) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 13

January 14

International

National and local

  • Defender of the Motherland Day (Uzbekistan) Wikipedia
  • Flag Day (Georgia) Wikipedia
  • National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand) Wikipedia
  • Old New Year, and its related observance: Azhyrnykhua (Abkhazia) Wikipedia
  • Old New Year, and its related observance: Yennayer (Berbers) Wikipedia
  • Ratification Day (United States) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): Magh Bihu (Assam) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): Maghe Sankranti (Nepal) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): Maghi (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): Makar Sankranti (India) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): The first day of Pongal (Tamil Nadu) Wikipedia
  • Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): Uttarayan (Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Rajasthan) Wikipedia

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What happened on January 14

January 15

National and local

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What happened on January 15

January 16

National and local

  • National Religious Freedom Day (United States) Wikipedia
  • Teachers' Day in Thailand and Myanmar Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 16

January 17

National and local

  • National Day (Menorca, Spain) Wikipedia
  • The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras, Greece) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 17

January 18

National and local

  • Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 18

January 19

National and local

  • Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance: Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi) Wikipedia
  • Husband's Day (Iceland) Wikipedia
  • Kokborok Day (Tripura, India) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

  • Bassianus of Lodi Wikipedia
  • Faustina and Liberata of Como Wikipedia
  • Henry of Uppsala Wikipedia
  • Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum Wikipedia
  • Mark of Ephesus (Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
  • Pontianus of Spoleto Wikipedia
  • Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester Wikipedia
  • January 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
  • Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances: Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian Orthodox) Wikipedia
  • Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances: Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (North Macedonia) Wikipedia

What happened on January 19

January 20

National and local

Religious feast days

What happened on January 20

January 21

National and local

Religious feast days

What happened on January 21

January 22

National and local

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What happened on January 22

January 23

International

  • World Freedom Day (Taiwan and South Korea) Wikipedia

National and local

  • Bounty Day (Pitcairn Islands) Wikipedia
  • Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Assam, Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal, India) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 23

January 24

National and local

  • Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (Romania) Wikipedia
  • Uttar Pradesh Day (Uttar Pradesh, India) Wikipedia
  • National Girl Child Day (India) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

  • Babylas of Antioch Wikipedia
  • Exuperantius of Cingoli Wikipedia
  • Felician of Foligno Wikipedia
  • Francis de Sales Wikipedia
  • Blessed Marie Poussepin Wikipedia
  • Pratulin Martyrs (Greek Catholic Church) Wikipedia
  • January 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
  • Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances: Feria de Alasitas (La Paz) Wikipedia

What happened on January 24

January 25

National and local

Religious feast days

  • Dydd Santes Dwynwen (Wales) Wikipedia
  • Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity) Wikipedia
  • Gregory the Theologian (Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church) Wikipedia
  • The last day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christian ecumenism) Wikipedia
  • January 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia

What happened on January 25

January 26

National and local

Religious feast days

What happened on January 26

January 27

International

  • Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Wikipedia

National and local

  • Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia) Wikipedia
  • Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) Wikipedia
  • Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Memorial Day (Italy) Wikipedia
  • Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Other Holocaust Memorial Days observances Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 27

January 28

National and local

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What happened on January 28

January 29

National and local

  • Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity) Wikipedia
  • Kansas Day (Kansas, United States) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 29

January 30

National and local

  • Day of Azerbaijani customs (Azerbaijan) Wikipedia
  • Day of Saudade (Brazil) Wikipedia
  • Fred Korematsu Day (California, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia) Wikipedia
  • Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances: Martyrs' Day (India) Wikipedia
  • Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances: School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain) Wikipedia
  • Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances: Start of the Season for Nonviolence (January 30 – April 4) Wikipedia

Religious feast days

What happened on January 30

January 31

National and local

  • Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba) Wikipedia
  • Independence Day (Nauru), celebrates independence from Australia in 1968 Wikipedia
  • Street Children's Day (Austria) Wikipedia

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What happened on January 31

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