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For many years Christian scribes accepted that Christmas was the date on which Jesus was born at the beginning of the eighteenth century, scholars began making suggestions on alternative explanations. Isaac Newton argued that Christmas day was selected to correspond with the winter solstice which the Romans called brume and celebrated it on December twenty fifth. In 1743, German Christian Paul Ernst Jablonski argued Christmas was placed on December 25 to correspond with the Roman solar holiday Dies Natalie Solis Invite and was therefore a "paganization" made the true church inferior.
According to Judeo Christian tradition, creation as described in the Genesis creation story happened on the date of the spring equinox. This date is now celebrated as Annunciation and as the anniversary of Incarnation. In 1889, Louis Duchesne suggested that the date of Christmas was calculated as nine months after Annunciation, the traditional date of the conception of Jesus.
The December 25 date may have been chosen by the catholic church in Rome in the early fourth century. At the time, a church calendar was created and other holidays were also placed on solar dates which inspired the Catholic Church leadership in Rome to elect the winter solstice, December 25, as the birthday of Jesus Christ, and the summer solstice as that of John the Baptist, added by the equinoxes as their respective dates of conception. While they were aware that pagans called this day the 'birthday' of Sol Invitees, this did not bother them and it did not play any role in their choice of date for Christmas day.