January 6

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on January 6.

See also:  January,  Today in History,  movable January holidays,  possible January holidays

     spotlight on:  

•  Swap Day
•  King of the Bean (a/k/a Bean Day)
•  Apple Tree Day
•  Greek Cross Day
•  Feast of Aesculapius (Greek God of Healing)
•  Take a Poet to Lunch Day
•  National Shortbread Day

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - January 06
•  Twelfth Day (a/k/a Twelfthtide)
•  Three King's Day
•  Epiphany
•  St. Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchoir's Day (patron of travelers)
•  St. Macra's Day (patron against breast disease)
•  St. Peter Baptist's Day (patron of Japan)
•  Old Christmas Day
•  Feasts & Saints of the Orthodox Church

anniversaries

directories

January holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

Asia

Middle East

•  Army Day - in Iraq

Australia and Oceania

Europe

•  Perch Tenlauf - in Austria
•  La Befana - in Italy
•  Blessing of the Waters - in Turkey

North America

Caribbean

•  Maroon Festival - in Jamaica

Central America

South America

•  Children's Day - in Uruguay

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 6, with 359 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Saturday
•  2002 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2003 A. D.:  Monday
•  2004 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2005 A. D.:  Thursday

•  2006 A. D.:  Friday
•  2007 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2008 A. D.:  Monday
•  2009 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2010 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2011 A. D.:  Thursday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Winter
•  Southern hemisphere:  Summer

zodiac

•  Capricorn

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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008