December 13 – Some important events on this day. 1294 👉🏼 Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five...
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The tradition of wassailing is a very ancient custom: in centuries past, so-called wassailers went from door to door, singing...
December 12 – Some important events on this day. 627 👉🏼 Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius beats Sassanid forces...
Of course, the history of Christmas stockings is based in myth and legend. Exactly where the custom came from is...
December 11 – Some important events on this day. 1282 👉🏼 Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last, last native Prince of...
Long, long ago, on one Christmas Eve, the spiders were banished from homes as they were cleaned for Christmas and...
December 10 – Some important events on this day. 1510 👉🏼 Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his...
Christmas is one of the most popularly celebrated festivals around the world and is observed in really lot ways and,...
December 9 – Some important events on this day. 536 👉🏼 Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison...
The little red-breasted, cheerful robins, often called also the Christmas robins, indicate the season of sun and spring. This rather...
December 8 – Some important events on this day. 1326 👉🏼 Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito...
A piece of white marble on a grave is actually a rich symbol. White stone, that symbolizes purity and innocence,...
December 7 – Some important events on this day. 43 BC 👉🏼 Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is...
December 6 – Some important events on this day. 1196 👉🏼 Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolas Flood" 1240 👉🏼 Mongols...
It is Christmas time: fresh Christmas trees are just about on every street corner, or waiting to be cut, taken...
December 5 – Some important events on this day. 771 👉🏼 Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after...
Christmas is the season of giving gifts showing love towards one another (well, more or less). But this does not...
December 4 – Some important events on this day. 1154 👉🏼 Adrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become...
For many, Christmas is a time of merry making and gift giving, of bonding with friends and family and of...
December 3 – Some important events on this day. 1586 👉🏼 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia...
December 2 – Some important events on this day. 1409 👉🏼 The University of Leipzig opens 1620 👉🏼 English language...
Christmas is usually considered a Christian festival, but it’s probably the most syncretized holiday on the calendar. The Puritans banned...
England’s King Henry I died aged 66 on this day, December 1, 1135 after eating what was described at the...
December 1 – Some important events on this day. 1135 👉🏼 England’s King Henry I died aged 66 after eating...
The northern seaport city of Halifax, Nova Scotia on the eastern Canadian sea board, was recently in the news for...
