January Religious Festivals and Dates

http://www.humanreligions.info/january.html

By Vexen Crabtree 2022

#bah�'�_faith #hinduism #islam #january #judaism #paganism

2023
01
Jan 02
Feb 03
Mar
04
Apr 05
May 06
Jun
07
Jul 08
Aug 09
Sep
10
Oct 11
Nov 12
Dec

Note that some traditions have festivals and dates that start at sundown or in the evening of the night before, such as (Jewish, Muslim and some Pagan events). There are no Hindu dates on these calendars yet, due to the complexity & multiplicity of all the various calendars in use. Likewise, there are no south-east Asian calendar dates.

Date	Event	Notes
Jan 1st Sunday
Jan 2nd Monday
Jan 3rd Tuesday
Jan 4th Wednesday
Jan 5th Thursday (this year)	Guru Gobind Singh's Gurpurab/Prakesh (birthday)	Sikhism. The tenth Guru.
Jan 6th Friday (fixed)	Theophany / Baptism of Jesus Christ	Christianity (Orthodox). By John the Baptist.
Jan 7th Saturday (fixed)	Christmas Day	Christianity (Orthodox, Rastafarian). Historically developed from: Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)
Jan 8th Sunday (always on a Sun)	The Baptism of Jesus	Christianity (Roman Catholic). The Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany By John the Baptist.
Jan 9th Monday
Jan 10th Tuesday (this year)	Feast of Tammuz	Judaism. Although the hebrew day starts in the evening, this fast starts the morning after and continues until nightfall. To remember the breach of Jerusalem's walls by Romans (69CE). A 3-week period also covers the destruction of the first Jewish Temple (586BCE), the Roman-Jewish war of 66CE & the 2nd temple's destruction.
Jan 11st Wednesday
Jan 12nd Thursday (fixed)	Birthday of Swami Vivekananda	Hinduism.
Jan 13rd Friday (2 days) (fixed)	Makar Sankranti / Lohri / Pongal	Hinduism. Dispute resolution and almsgiving. The eating of pancakes, rice sugar, halva and chapattis around a fire. Held on the 15th on Leap Years.
Jan 14th Saturday
Jan 15th Sunday (always on a Sun)	World Religion Day	Created by the Bahá'ís to celebrate positive factors common to common religions.
Jan 16th Monday (fixed)	Shinran Memorial Day	Buddhism (Pure Land Buddhism). For the anniversary of the death of Shinran Shonin (1173-1262), who founded Buddhist Jodo Shin-shu (Shin Buddhism).
Jan 17th Tuesday
Jan 18th Wednesday
Jan 19th Thursday (this year)	Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty)	Bahá'í Faith.
Jan 19th Thursday (this year)	Jashn-E Mehergan / Mihr Jashan	Zoroastrianism. Dedicated to Meher, or Mithra, symbols of the sun, and of justice.
Jan 20th Friday
Jan 21st Saturday
Jan 22nd Sunday (fixed)	International Day of Protest Against Hereditary Religion	A secularist campaign to highlight the injustice and unfairness of parents raising children up as religious, before they have had a chance to fairly compare religions and pick one in accordance with their own free will.
Jan 22nd Sunday (this year)	Chinese New Year	Chinese religion in China. China uses the Gregorian calendar, but, the traditional Chinese New Year is still the basis for religious festivals and special days.
Jan 23rd Monday
Jan 24th Tuesday
Jan 25th Wednesday (fixed)	Honen Shonin Memorial Day	Buddhism (Japanese Buddhist). The Pure Land Buddhism school of Jodo Shin-shu was founded by Shinran.
Jan 26th Thursday
Jan 27th Friday (fixed)	Holocaust Memorial Day	Judaism in the UK. Remembrance for those who suffered persecution and genocide under the Nazis.
Jan 28th Saturday
Jan 29th Sunday
Jan 30th Monday (fixed)	Jashn-E Sadeh	Zoroastrianism in Iran. Mid-winter bonfire festival to celebrate the days lengthening.
Jan 31st Tuesday (this year)	Guru Har Rai's Gurpurab/Prakesh (birthday)	Sikhism. The seventh guru.