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Boxing day the day after christmas was added in 1871.
Who invented christmas day. No matter if it was the sun god or saturn it was not originally. In the uk christmas day became a bank holiday in 1834. It is unknown the exact year that christmas crackers were invented. Christmas christian festival celebrating the birth of jesus the english term christmas mass on christ s day is of fairly recent origin.
In 1843 charles dickens wrote the novel a christmas carol which helped revive the spirit of christmas and seasonal merriment. The earlier term yule may have derived from the germanic jōl or the anglo saxon geōl which referred to the feast of the winter solstice the corresponding terms in other languages navidad in spanish natale in italian noël in french all. It was the day of sol invictus the invincible sun sol invictus was part of a roman warrior cult in which the figure of mithras appears and later it supplanted saturnalia. However the actual christmas day itself december 25 was not the last day of saturnalia.
Celebrating christmas was banned for a period of time in england. Early christians did not celebrate christmas. The pagan festival of saturnalia was celebrated on the winter solstice on december 21.
