They never do.
The next year in which Christmas day will fall on a Sunday will be in 2016.
New Year's Day and Christmas Day of the same year never fall on the same day. The 1st of January 1945 was on a Monday and the 25th of December 1945 was on a Tuesday. That is completely normal. A week after Christmas Day is New Year's Day, but that is New Year's Day of the following year. So Christmas Day 1945 would have been on the same day of the week as New Year's Day 1946, the next year. In the same way, Christmas Day 1944 and New Year's Day 1945 were on the same day of the week.
Oh, dude, Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year every year. I mean, it's not like they're gonna skip a year and be like, "Nah, we're gonna take a break this time." So, yeah, they're always in the same year. Like, every year.
If the 25th of April is a Sunday, then Christmas Day in the same year is always a Saturday.
Hanukkah is an 8 day festival, so it can never fall entirely on the same day as Christmas. But if you are asking for dates when it overlaps with Christmas, the starting dates for Hanukkah in the next few years will be:December 21, 2011December 9, 2012November 28, 2013December 17, 2014December 7, 2015December 25, 2016December 13, 2017December 3, 2018December 23, 2019The holiday actually begins on the evening BEFORE the dates listed.
There is a pattern in the way days and dates fall. If Christmas Day is on a Sunday 3 years before a leap year, then it will always follow that the Christmas Days in the next years are a Monday, a Tuesday, and for the leap year Wednesday will be skipped and Christmas Day will be on a Thursday. Follow on for another 3 years and you get Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Leap years are always even, so if it is 3 years before a leap year, then the first year that the Sunday is on has to be odd, as will the year 3 years after a leap year. These patterns are common and you could look at other specific combinations of dates and days in the same way and find recurring patterns there too.
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In the year 2009, Christmas fell on a Friday.Friday
The next year Christmas day will fall on a Tuesday is 2018.
Yes, Christmas Day can fall on a Wednesday. Christmas Day is on December 25th each year, and the day of the week it falls on changes annually. To determine if Christmas falls on a Wednesday, one would need to consult a calendar for that specific year.
Christmas falls on Sunday in 2016.