Christmas falls on 25 December because the early church chose that day to keep the birth of Jesus. The Bible gives no date. Rome was keeping the feast probably by 336, and historians give two explanations for the choice: a reckoning nine months on from 25 March, and a Roman feast of the Unconquered on the same day. The Christians of the fourth century knew that their neighbours kept 25 December too. The Roman calendar of 354 marks the day…

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