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The custom of Christmas trees as they are known today can be traced backed to Germany hundreds of years ago. One legend credits Saint Boniface, an English missionary, with the
Nov 28, 2023 · Print Page. The history of Christmas trees goes back to the symbolic use of evergreens in ancient Egypt and Rome and continues with the German tradition of candlelit Christmas trees first...
Download primary resource. PDF. This primary resource teaches children about the history of the Christmas tree, and why we decorate these evergreen trees with festive ornaments.
The Christmas Tree first came to England with the Georgian Kings who came from Germany. At this time also, German Merchants living in England decorated their homes with a Christmas Tree.
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Dec 6, 2016 · Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and can-dles. It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther, the 16th-century
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Dec 5, 2019 · How Christmas trees became a Christmas tradition—and the one image that popularized Christmas trees in the U.S.
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The History of Christmas Trees. 1510 – The first written record of a decorated Christmas Tree comes from Riga, Latvia. Men of the local merchants’ guild decorated a tree with artificial roses, danced around it in the marketplace and then set fire to it.
