TIL that Christmas was banned by the English Parliment in 1644 because many of the Puritans believed it was "too closely associated with Catholicism" and it had simply become too drunken and debauched.

https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/cromwell/did-oliver-cromwell-ban-christmas
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1psa8w3/til_that_christmas_was_banned_by_the_english/