January Religious Festivals and Dates

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By Vexen Crabtree 2022

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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 few Hindu dates on these calendars yet, due to the complexity & multiplicity of all the various calendars in use. Likewise, there are few south-east Asian calendar dates.

Date	Event	Notes
Jan 1st Monday
Jan 2nd Tuesday
Jan 3rd Wednesday
Jan 4th Thursday
Jan 5th Friday (this year)	Guru Gobind Singh's Gurpurab/Prakesh (birthday)	Sikhism. The tenth Guru.
Jan 6th Saturday (fixed)	Theophany / Baptism of Jesus Christ	Christianity (Orthodox). By John the Baptist.
Jan 7th 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 7th Sunday (fixed)	Christmas Day	Christianity (Orthodox, Rastafarian). Historically developed from: Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)
Jan 8th Monday
Jan 9th Tuesday
Jan 10th Wednesday
Jan 11st Thursday
Jan 12nd Friday (fixed)	Birthday of Swami Vivekananda	Hinduism.
Jan 13rd Saturday (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 Sunday
Jan 15th Monday
Jan 16th Tuesday (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 Wednesday
Jan 18th Thursday
Jan 19th Friday (this year)	Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty)	Bahá'í Faith.
Jan 19th Friday (this year)	Jashn-E Mehergan / Mihr Jashan	Zoroastrianism. Dedicated to Meher, or Mithra, symbols of the sun, and of justice.
Jan 20th Saturday
Jan 21st Sunday (always on a Sun)	World Religion Day	Created by the Bahais to celebrate positive factors common to common religions.
Jan 22nd Monday (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 23rd Tuesday
Jan 24th Wednesday
Jan 25th Thursday (fixed)	Honen Shonin Memorial Day	Buddhism (Japanese Buddhist). The Pure Land Buddhism school of Jodo Shin-shu was founded by Shinran.
Jan 25th Thursday (2 days) (this year)	Tu B'Shevat	Judaism. Celebrating (and planting of) new trees, and the approach of spring.
Jan 26th Friday
Jan 27th Saturday (fixed)	Holocaust Memorial Day	Judaism in the UK. Remembrance for those who suffered persecution and genocide under the Nazis.
Jan 28th Sunday
Jan 29th Monday
Jan 30th Tuesday (fixed)	Jashn-E Sadeh	Zoroastrianism in Iran. Mid-winter bonfire festival to celebrate the days lengthening.
Jan 31st Wednesday (this year)	Guru Har Rai's Gurpurab/Prakesh (birthday)	Sikhism. The seventh guru.