Christmas Traditions Timeline & Poster Set

Seven printable poster pages on Christmas traditions: a two-page timeline from Rome in 336 to the snowy Christmas of 2010, the Christmas tree, St Nicholas, Santa and Befana, the Victorian Christmas, Christmas in the Isle of Man, and Christmas in numbers. Every date carries its source.

What’s inside:

- How to use the posters

- Poster 1: timeline, Rome in 336 to the royal tree picture of 1848

- Poster 2: timeline, the first printed Advent calendars (1851) to the snowy Christmas of 2010

- Poster 3: the Christmas tree

- Poster 4: St Nicholas, Santa and Befana

- Poster 5: the Victorian Christmas, with the “first card” sources that differ shown side by side

- Poster 6: Christmas in the Isle of Man

- Poster 7: Christmas in numbers

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 10 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from Encyclopaedia Britannica, the V&A, The Postal Museum, Historic England, the Royal Collection Trust, the BBC, the Met Office and Culture Vannin (checked 30 Oct 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page. Where sources disagree, each version is shown with its source.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are our own simplified pictures: not photographs or copies of real cards, objects or places, and not copied from any print, photo or book. Not affiliated with Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Postal Museum, The National Archives, Historic England, English Heritage, the Royal Collection Trust, the BBC, the Met Office or Culture Vannin. Their names are used only to identify the sources we quote.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind christmas.traditions.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.