This year our Ten Things series is focusing on each month in turn. The Ten Things may include facts about the month, momentous events that happened, personal things, and any other idiocy I feel like – just because I can. So here are …
Ten Things about December
- Decem – the tenth month of Roman calendar
- Yule is celebrated by pagans on the Winter Solstice
- Advent is the four weeks leading up to …
- … Christmas Day
- St Lucia, is the Scandinavian festival of lights (right)
- Roman Saturnalia ran for five days staring on 17th
- Feast of St Nicholas, which in many European countries is more important than Christmas Day
- Meteorological Winter starts on 1st
- Shortest Day
- Murder of Thomas Beckett, 1170