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Events on Tuesday 19 December 1843 1
1843Dickens publishes A Christmas CarolNovella about Ebenezer Scrooge appears in LondonCharles Dickens published A Christmas Carol through Chapman & Hall, and the first printing sold out by Christmas Eve. The story of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and the visiting ghosts shaped how Christmas was celebrated in Britain and beyond.