| year | event | |
| 1 | 1659 | Celebrating Christmas outlawed in Boston |
| 5 | 1931 | Rockefeller Center Christmas tree tradition begins |
| 2 | 1847 | August Imgard invents candy cane |
| 3 | 1863 | Harper’s Weekly carries Thomas Nast’s first annual Santa Claus drawing |
| 4 | 1870 | Christmas Day a federal holiday in the United States |
