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1. December 25th was not celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ until the year AD 440.

2. The German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902) “invented” the popular image of Santa Claus. Nast first drew Santa in the 1862.

3. The Christmas cracker was invented in 1847 by London confectioner Thomas Smith.

4. Christmas for Americans has become a family holiday with “Christmas stories” of Charles Dickens (1843).

5. In 1649, Oliver Cromwell abolished Christmas. He declared Christmas to be an ordinary working day. Anybody caught celebrating Christmas was arrested. The ban was lifted in 1660.

6. The first Christmas card was created on the instructions of an Englishman, Sir Henry Cole in 1843. J.C. Horsley designed the card and sold a one thousand copies in London.

7. The first Christmas stamp was released in Canada (1898).

8. The popular Christmas song “Jingle Bells” was composed by James Pierpont in 1857. It was written for Thanksgiving, not Christmas.

9. The first decorated Christmas tree was in Latvia (1510). Christmas trees have been sold commercially in the USA since about 1850.

10. The bread baked on Christmas Eve will never go mouldy, says an old wives’ tale



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