Santa got a question for all of you Historians,How would a Christmas in London 1837 look like?
Back when Saint Nicholas had a wagon, he could ride over the top of trees when he brought his yearly presents to children.
- The German-born Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria installed the first Christmas tree at Windsor castle in 1841.
- The first electric Christmas tree lights appeared late in the 1880s.
- The first Christmas tree was displayed in the white house in 1889.
-King Richard II of England hosted a Christmas feast in 1377 at which twenty-eight oxen and three hundred sheep were eaten.
-Yule bear was the cherry of every medieval Christmas feast.
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