When did Christmas begin? Most people would say that Christmas began roughly 2,025 years ago on a cool winter’s December night. And yet, that can’t be right. See, shepherds didn’t pasture their sheep at night during the winter months. That only happened when it was warmer; like in the spring, summer or early autumn. And that means that the first Christmas was most likely on a warm, spring April/May night. And to make things even more complicated, Jesus wasn’t even born in the first year of the new calendar. Now, we can blame a Scythian Monk named Dionysius for that. Dionysius wanted to honor the birth of Jesus by splitting time in half. He wanted the time before Jesus was born to be called “BC” and the time after his birth to receive an “AD” suffix with Jesus’ birth right in the middle. But Dionysius miscalculated the date of Jesus’