January 4

The fourth day of January.

Births

 * 1581: James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (d. 1656). His calendar dated creation to 4004 BC.
 * 1672: Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)

Deaths

 * 1821: Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
 * 1891: Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
 * 1896: Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)

Roman Catholicism

 * Tenth day (and eleventh night) of Christmas
 * Feast day of St Elizabeth Ann Seton

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * Last day of the Nativity afterfeast
 * Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles
 * Saint Theoctistus, abbot at Cucomo in Sicily
 * Martyrs Athanasius the Commentarisius (superintendent of prisoners) and Zosimas the Hermit, anchorites of Cilicia
 * Martyrs Euthymia and Chrysanthus
 * Saint Euthymius the New, monk
 * Martyr and abbot Euthymius, and 12 monks of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos (13th century)
 * Saint Eustace of Serbia, first archbishop there (13th century)
 * Saint Aquilae, deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (14th century)
 * Martyr Onuphrius Manassias of Chilandar Monastery on Mount Athos (1818)
 * Saint Gregory of Langres in Gaul
 * Repose of Symeon of Smolensk, metropolitan (1699)