Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Barba'shmin
- Felix of Nola
- Macrina the Elder
- January 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest day on which Lee-Jackson Day can fall while January 20 is the latest, celebrated on Friday before Martin Luther King Day. (Commonwealth of Virginia)
- Feast of Divina Pastora (Barquisimeto)
- Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity)
- National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)
- Old New Year (see January 13)
- 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)
- Maghi (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
- Makar Sankranti (India)
- The first day of Pongal, a Tamil New Year. (Tamil)
- Uttarayan (Uttaranchal, Gujarat and Rajasthan)
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