Is it his birthday on the 25th?

Since you do not have a capital H on "his", we guess that you do not mean Jesus.

But if you do, then the answer is... yes and no.

In many countries, the "birthday" of the ruler is celebrated on a date that is convenient for the nation, whether it is the true anniversary of the ruler.

For example, the "Queen's Birthday" is celebrated on a date that is not the actual anniversary of the Queen.

In the same manner, we celebrate the birth of Jesus on the 25th of December because it is a convenient date for the Church(es). In early Rome, the end of December were festivities: it was the start of the Roman "religious" calendar** (the days starting to get longer), it was the Saturnalia, and it was the return of the armies from war (tons of gifts which were really the spoils of war).

When Constantine gave control of Rome to the Church, they did not want any of these "pagan" celebrations going on, so they changed them to the birth of Christ (Christmas).

They probably already knew (and modern researchers seem to agree) that Jesus was not born in December (nor in January). There is not a lot of information that can be checked, but the "shepherds in fields as they lay" and the availability of the "stable" attached to an inn, would indicate that Jesus was born either in mid-Spring (in April, perhaps) or in mid-Autumn (October?), with many other dates also being considered.

Winter is least likely (but not completely impossible).

Also, for a while, it was thought that Dionysius Exiguus might have been off by up to 7 years in his calculations for the year of Jesus's birth (calculations done back in AD 525), but recent research seem to indicate that he might have been a lot closer than we first thought.

The (ever so slighly) prefered dates are in the month we now call October of the year 1 BC, or in April of the year AD 1 (because there is no year 0 in this scheme, these two months are only 6 months apart).

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**The idea of celebrating the start of the year around that time (in Western Europe) started thousands of years before the Romans. The evidence is from many henges and leys (stone alignments) found on the British Isles and in northwest mainland Europe. By their locations (and likely use), they would detect the return of longer days roughly 3 to 4 days after the winter solstice.

Records in Stone [the work of Alexander Thom] edited by C.L.N. Ruggles. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

That's the birthday of a lot of people. If you mean Jesus (as in the New Testament), no. If shepherds were watching their flocks by night, it was lambing season. At any other times the flock would be able to fend off predators by themselves. So, it must have been springtime.

Nope

Mine is the 23.

I think this

http://www.herealittletherealittle.net/index.cfm?p...

is saying that Jesus was conceived in Chanukah which usually falls in December. That would make his birth in fall, not winter.

Its mine so you better send me presents or ill be pissed at you

Of whom do you speak?

my uncle's is