IIRC it's more that Christians dubbed the pre-existing Winter Solstice "Christmas".

...and then moved the "new year" to a week later on the ass-end of winter, which just makes no fucking sense.

Maybe that last one wasn't the Christians, someone else could've come up with that.

Fun fact, they did that the year George Washington was born. Scholars still apparently debate his actual "birth year."

George Washington was born in 1582?
The calender was actually proposed in 1582, accepted in 1583 it just took a long while for Britain to change it.
And we know when he was born, there are just two ways to record it- one is how they recorded it at the time (Old style) or one where it is adjusted (New Style). This puts the date in different "years" but we know the moment in time when he was born, just it a matter of labelling it.

Yup. He was actually a cyborg created by the Illuminati to found America, so they could use it's wealth to fund the LHC and open a portal to Hell, but they were thwarted when John Wilkes Booth murdered Washington v.2, and it was only recently that they had the technology to launch a missile at the moon, knocking it out of orbit so it will tear a hole in the Van Allen belt so the demons can come through that. This is also how we know the moon landing is a fake, because you can't go through the Van Allen belt because it will kill you.

Oh, I wish. I live in Georgia now and it's still March or so before it really warms up. In the upper midwest, I knew the months of January-March as the season of Fuck You, because there's no pretty lights to distract me and I hate cold like a vampire hates sunlight.

Eh, I was close. My bad. ;)


Edit: To address the Christmas thing, yeah, the date was put there to coincide with the solstice. Early Christianity faced a lot of persecution, so a lot of religious holidays were put on days everyone was already celebrating to keep from sticking out like a sore thumb. Technically, Christmas should be sometime in spring, given the conditions described.