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January 2025 will be the first month of the upcoming common year. The month, which will begin on a Wednesday, will end on a Friday after 31 days.

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January 2025

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Avian flu outbreak
• Haitian crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Chinese property sector crisis
• German economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Politics

• Mexico–United States border crisis
• Somali constitutional crisis
• South Korean presidential impeachment
• United States drone sightings
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• Georgian post-election protests
• Israel–Hamas war protests
• Mozambican post-election protests
• United Kingdom farmers' protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• December

• 29: Chad, National Assembly
• 29: Croatia, President

Upcoming

• January

• 12: Comoros, Assembly of the Union

Trials

Recently concluded

• France:0Dominique Pélicot

Ongoing

• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Sports

• American football

• 2024 NFL season
• 2024 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1

• Basketball

• 2024–25 NBA season
• 2024–25 EuroLeague

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Ice hockey

• 2024–25 NHL season
• 2024–25 PWHL season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

December

• 29: Jimmy Carter
• 28: Charles Dolan
• 27: Greg Gumbel
• 27: Dayle Haddon
• 27: Olivia Hussey
• 27: Charles Shyer
• 26: Richard Parsons
• 26: Manmohan Singh
• 25: Bill Bergey
• 25: M. T. Vasudevan Nair
• 25: Osamu Suzuki
• 24: Dési Bouterse
• 24: Richard Perry
• 23: Shyam Benegal
• 23: Sophie Hediger
• 21: Art Evans
• 20: Casey Chaos
• 20: George Eastham
• 20: Rickey Henderson
• 19: Michael Leunig
• 18: Slim Dunlap
• 18: John Marsden
• 17: Igor Kirillov
• 17: Marisa Paredes
• 17: Jānis Timma
• 16: Dick Van Arsdale
• 15: Zakir Hussain
• 14: Isak Andic
• 11: David Bonderman
• 11: Khalil Haqqani
• 10: Rocky Colavito
• 10: Michael Cole
• 10: The Amazing Kreskin
• 09: Nikki Giovanni
• 08: Jill Jacobson
• 06: Miho Nakayama
• 06: Maggie Tabberer
• 04: Princess Birgitta
• 04: Brian Thompson
• 04: Chiung Yao
• 02: Neale Fraser
• 02: Debbie Mathers
• 02: Israel Vázquez
• 01: Terry Griffiths

November

• 30: Lou Carnesecca
• 29: Marshall Brickman
• 29: Will Cullen Hart
• 29: Wayne Northrop

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Iraq

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict

• Israel–Hamas war

• Syria

• Israeli invasion

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2024 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain