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Christmas day in History

Guess what happened on Christmas Day in each of the years listed
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Year
Event
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Birth of Jesus Christ
337
First possible celebration of Christmas
352
First definite celebration of Christmas
496
First German king is baptized
597
England adopts Julian calendar
800
Charlemagne crowned Emperor
1013
First viking king of England
1066
William the Conqueror is coronated
1223
First nativity scene
1482
Christmas feast in Eltham Palace
1492
Columbus' flagship sinks
1582
Zealand and Brabant adopt Gregorian Calendar
1621
Massachusetts bans game playing on Christmas
1656
First pendulum clock
1711
Saint Paul's cathedral completed in Britain
1717
Dutch coast flooded
1741
Celsius scale invented
1745
Treaty of Dresden signed
1758
First sighting of Halley's comet
1760
First African American written poem is published
1769
First Christmas service in New Zealand
1776
Washington crosses the Delaware
1809
First abdominal surgery in the US
1818
First Christmas carol
1831
Two US states recognize Christmas as holiday
1862
40,000 watch baseball game in South Carolina
1868
All southern rebels pardoned
1888
First indoor baseball game
1902
Pope endorses democracy
1914
Christmas Truce
1926
Hirohito becomes Emperor
1936
Belgian bishops condemn facism
1939
Rudolph becomes 9th reindeer
1946
Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1952
Queen Elizabeth II makes her first Christmas Day broadcast
1957
Ed Gein found not guilty
1965
Bombing in north Vietnam stops
1971
Longest NFL game
1979
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan begins
1989
Romanian dictator executed
1991
Gorbachev resigns as President of the USSR
2013
Wolf of Wall Street is released
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