Boxing Day

Boxing Day in Australia is December 26 in all states and territories.

Some sources may report that December 26 is Proclamation Day, not Boxing Day, in South Australia. To correct this misunderstanding, Proclamation Day is actually on 28 December, but South Australia celebrates its public holiday for Proclamation Day on the day traditionally reserved for Boxing Day: 26 December. The public holiday is known as the Proclamation Day public holiday, but when referring to the day itself, it is still known as Boxing Day.

Boxing day was not started by a person but was started by England. Even though the origin is uncertain England was always popping up when I did a report about Boxing day but it might have been the Romans (I would go with England).

Despite the lively images suggested by the name, it has nothing to do with pugilistic expositions between tanked-up family members who have dearly been looking forward to taking a round out of each other for the past year. Likewise, it does not gain its name from the overpowering need to rid the house of an excess of wrappings and mountains of now useless cardboard boxes the day after St. Nick arrived to turn a perfectly charming and orderly home into a maelstrom of discarded tissue paper.

The name also has nothing to do with returning unwanted gifts to the stores they came from, hence its common association with hauling about boxes on the day after Christmas.

The holiday's roots can be traced to Britain, where Boxing Day is also known as St. Stephen's Day. Reduced to the simplest essence, its origins are found in a long-ago practice of giving cash or durable goods to those of the lower classes. Gifts among equals were exchanged on or before Christmas Day, but beneficences to those less fortunate were bestowed the day after.

This expression came about because money was collected in alms-boxes placed in churches during the festive season. This money was then distributed during to the poor and needy after Christmas.

It depends upon the country. In Australia, Boxing Day is when many large retailers open for massive sales.

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December 26 is called Boxing Day in England and other countries in the Commonwealth, but it is unknown exactly when it first began.

Boxing Day seems to have originated in the mid nineteenth century in England. Some historians believe the name 'Boxing Day' came about because the boxes placed in churches where parishioners deposited alms (coins) for the poor and needy were opened, and the contents were distributed on December 26, which is also the Feast of St Stephen. (St Stephen was the first Christian martyr.)

Others believe that the Boxing Day tradition originated as a holiday for members of the upper class to give boxes containing food, clothing or money to tradespeople and servants, in much the same way that many employers offer their employees bonuses today. These gifts were usually given in boxes; hence the name 'Boxing Day".

Oxford English Dictionary says this comes from the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: To give a Christmas-box, and then leading to the term boxing-day.

An extension of the above theory is that when Christmas holidays were much shorter than they are today certain services often only had Christmas Day as a holiday and returned to work the day after. These included services such as the mail, newspaper or milk delivery. Householders would give them a Christmas gift or, as it was commonly called, a Christmas box on this day to thank them for their service throughout the year.

The common theme, however, is that Boxing Day has absolutely nothing to do with the sport of boxing.

Likewise, it does not gain its name from the overpowering need to rid the house of an excess of wrappings and mountains of now useless cardboard boxes the day after St Nick arrived to turn a perfectly charming and orderly home into a maelstrom of discarded tissue paper.

The name also has nothing to do with returning unwanted gifts to the stores they came from, despite its common association with hauling about boxes on the day after Christmas.

After Christmas families had extra food left over so they would put it into boxes and bring it around to their neighbors

It depends on who you are referring to by saying "you."

December 26 is the feast day of Saint Stephen, deacon and martyr. His ministry was to collect food and other items for distribution to the needy members of the Church in Jerusalem. It is sometimes referred to as 'the Feast of Stephen' or Boxing Day, a day devoted to 'boxing food and other items for the needy.

We don't have Boxing Day here - it's called 'la Saint Etienne', but it's not a holiday.

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Boxing was not always called Boxing. In the ancient Greek and Roman times, the sport of bashing up the teeth of your opponent during fist fighting was called pugilism.

Boxing is known to have been around in some shape or form since 3000bc.

the dangers of boxing are numerous because u are getting hit in the head constantly. Blindness concussions and many other symptoms can occur. So if you want to learn to box for self defense i certainly recommend it but stay out of the pro or ametuar ring.

no its called boxing day because of skyrim

i think so :)
Yes, Dominos will be open for 24 hours on the Boxing Day.

Normally in most malls it is for the week after christmas, however, some stores will only have certain deals for boxing day only, or the % off will be a little higher boxing day, but still be on sale afterwards! Also boxing day and the day after that the 27 are the best days to go as stuff quickly gets picked over and sizes also do as well! Best of luck with you boxing week shopping

Boxing day is the day after Christmas, with a few different stories about its origins:

- The day that everything was boxed up after Christmas, when you pulled down all the decorations and put them away for next year.

- The day that the priests of the churches sorted the charity donations to distribute in boxes

- The day that you threw out all the boxes that the Christmas presents came in

Regardless of the origins, there are some important events that occur here in Australia on this day:

- Boxing Day Test - a cricket game always held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

- Start of the Sydney to Hobart - a sailing race from Sydney Harbour down to Hobart.

In Ireland, the 26th of December is known as St. Stephen's Day.

It is made of cardboard.

The Chatham Islands, (part of New Zealand, located about 800km to the east of the main New Zealand islands), are 45 minutes ahead of the standard New Zealand time, at UTC/GMT +12:45 hours. On New Year's Day they are in Daylight time of UTC/GMT +13:45 hours, therefore they are the first place to celebrate the New Year.

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Many people go to the Boxing Day sales, where they can exchange unwanted gifts (in personal opinion, a rather preposterous custom) or pick up items on huge sales.

Many others simply enjoy time with family and friends.

There is always cleaning-up to be done.

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