1.
Following the Parliamentarian
victory over Charles I during the English
Civil War, England's Puritan rulers banned Christmas in 1647
2.
The Parliament of Scotland officially abolished
the observance of Christmas in 1640, claiming that the church had been
"purged of all superstitious observation of days".[125]
It was not until 1958 that Christmas again became a Scottish public holiday.
3.
In Colonial
America, the Pilgrims of New England shared radical Protestant
disapproval of Christmas.[106]
The Plymouth Pilgrims put their loathing for the day into practice in 1620 when
they spent their first Christmas Day in the New World working – thus demonstrating
their complete contempt for the day.[106]
Non-Puritans in New England deplored the loss of the holidays enjoyed by the
laboring classes in England.[129]
Christmas observance was outlawed in Boston in 1659.[106]
The ban by the Puritans was revoked in 1681 by English governor Edmund
Andros, however it was not until the mid-19th century that celebrating
Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region.[130]
4.
Christmas fell out of favor in the United States after
the American Revolution, when it was considered an
English custom.[132]
George Washington attacked Hessian (German) mercenaries on the day after
Christmas during the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776, Christmas
being much more popular in Germany than in America at this time.
5.
With the atheistic Cult
of Reason in power during the era of Revolutionary France, Christian Christmas religious
services were banned and the three
kings cake was forcibly renamed the "equality cake" under anticlerical
government policies.[133][134]
6.
In Britain, the Christmas tree was introduced in the early 19th
century following the personal union with the Kingdom of Hanover by Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,
wife of King George III.
7.
Up to the 1950s, in the UK, many Christmas
customs were restricted to the upper classes and better-off families. The mass
of the population had not adopted many of the Christmas rituals that later
became general. The Christmas tree was rare.
8.
Some jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, including those of
Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Jerusalem, mark feasts
using the older Julian calendar. As of 2016, there is a difference
of 13 days between the Julian calendar and the modern Gregorian calendar, which is used
internationally for most secular purposes. As a result, December 25 on the
Julian calendar currently corresponds to January 7 on the calendar used by most
governments and people in everyday life. Therefore, the aforementioned Orthodox
Christians mark December 25 (and thus Christmas) on the day that is
internationally considered to be January 7.
9.
Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem,
which maintains the traditional Armenian custom of celebrating the birth of
Christ on the same day as Theophany (January 6), but uses the Julian
calendar for the determination of that date. As a result, this church
celebrates "Christmas" (more properly called Theophany) on the day
that is considered January 19 on the Gregorian calendar in use by the majority
of the world.
10.
Christmas celebrations have also been prohibited
by atheist
states such as the Soviet Union[227]
and more recently majority Muslim states such as Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei.[228]
11.
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