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1647 - European Puritan rulers ban Christmas as a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast", claiming that "merrymaking" was offensive to Jesus and God. Soon after, pro-Christmas rioting broke out in several cities. The real "war on Christmas" had begun and lasted for several weeks and the ban was lifted in 1660.

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