Boxing Day 2022 History, celebration, and everything you need to know

Boxing Day is to be observed as a bank holiday between Christmas and New Year's Day every year on 26th December

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Boxing Day was named during Queen Victoria's rule in the 1800s and has nothing to do with sports..

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The name comes from a time when the wealthy would package gifts to give to the poor. Boxing Day was traditionally a holiday for servants.

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If it ever falls on a Saturday, then it is celebrated on Monday

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If it falls on a Sunday then it is celebrated on Tuesday

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On Boxing Day, the servants would also return home to give their families Christmas boxes.

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In sports, Boxing Day commemorates the return of action to the field for the first day after Christmas.

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The Boxing Day tradition spread thanks to the Churches in Britain, which collected money from worshippers and redistributed it to the poor during the Christmas season.

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