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Over the course of the 1870s the venerable british figure of father christmas was consumed by an american interloper. The very first christmas would have been celebrated around the year 336, in rome (italy). The classic holiday tale a christmas carol was first published in london in 1843.

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It wasn’t until the cartoonist thomas nast drew santa claus for harper’s weekly in 1863, that the modern form of father christmas started to take place. The original british father christmas, as depicted in 17th century, sported a beard, but it wasn’t white, and his clothing colour was green, not red. Father christmas was described originally as wearing a doublet, long stockings and a high hat.

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The annual event, which includes the lighting of the national christmas tree, began in 1923 under president calvin coolidge. At this time, the roman emperor. In the tudor and victorian eras, father christmas wore a green suit.

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And we can thank scandinavian myths for. The legend of st nicholas only came to britain after the norman invasion, when it was absorbed into our own father christmas legend. He was known as 'sir christmas', 'old father christmas'.

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Santa claus appeared in britain in the 1860s, when other christmas innovations such as stockings, crackers and christmas cards were being introduced. The santa we know today bears little resemblance to. Father christmas was originally part of an old english midwinter festival, normally dressed in green, a sign of the returning spring.