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Christmas becomes popular

The popularity of Christmas was spurred on in 1820 by Washington Irving's book The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall In 1834, Britain's Queen Victoria brought her German husband, Prince Albert, into Windsor Castle, introducing the tradition of the Christmas tree and carols that were held in Europe to the British Empire A week before Christmas in 1834, Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol (in which he wrote that Scrooge required Cratchit to work, and that the US Congress met on Christmas Day) It was so popular that neither the churches nor the governments could not ignore the importance of Christmas celebrations In 1836, Alabama became the first state in the US to declare Christmas a legal holiday In 1837, TH Hervey's The Book of Christmas also became a best seller In 1860, American illustrator Thomas Nast borrowed from the European stories about Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children, to create Father Christmas (Santa Claus) In 1907, Oklahoma became the last US state to declare Christmas a legal holiday Year by year, countries all over the world started to recognise Christmas as the day for celebrating the birth of Jesus