A Brief History of Birthdays [Re-Edit]

Birthday Celebrations involve a lot of traditions with interesting origins, from gift-giving to cakes decorated with candles. In this video, we explain the origins of some of these practices, as well as the history of birthday parties in general. We answer the questions, "How did Birthday Parties become a thing?", "When did birthday celebrations start?", "Why do we blow out candles?", and more.
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[@henrikleppa7632]

To expand on the note in 5:46: Between 1988 and 2015 Warner/Chappell Music claimed to own the US copyright to the "Happy Birthday" song, and would extort money from people (mostly media/entertainment companies and restaurants), by threatening to sue them if they didn't buy a copyright license from them. This lead to other companies coming up with their own birthday songs, but most of those didn't stick in the popular consciousness for three reasons: (1) They were each owned by the company that created them, and thus other companies had the same lawsuit & licensing problems. (2) Ordinary citizens and small businesses were "too small to sue" (suing them wouldn't have been profitable), and thus still continued using "Happy Birthday to You". (3) Copyright laws and terms are different outside the US. (They're different for each country.) In 2015, a US court found that Warner/Chappell Music only owned a specific piano arrangement, and that the song as a whole had been public domain in the US.

[@redspiritmask]

This was a great topic to cover. Thanks for sharing your research!

[@Artur_M.]

Really cool little video. Answering a question one might never think about because birthdays seem like such an ubiquitous, obvious thing. BTW in many countries there's also a similar tradition of celebrating one's name day.

[@micahistory]

of course you are here lol

[@Artur_M.]

@@micahistory Yep, since the Project Ukraine collaboration, in which Soma's video was one of the best.

[@micahistory]

@@Artur_M. same for me

[@micahistory]

very interesting, sometimes the simple stuff like this is so fascinating

[@killaved4262]

Very nice!

[@SomasAcademy]

Thanks!

[@JaylaisAwesome]

Today is my 20th birthday, I just had to watch this.

[@SomasAcademy]

Happy birthday!

[@JaylaisAwesome]

@@SomasAcademy Thank you!

[@carolinemcgreal2382]

I don't celebrate birthdays, and my Messiah Yahusha (Jesus) also didn't celebrate birthdays.

[@SomasAcademy]

It's Yeshua or Yehoshua, not Yahusha.

[@killaved4262]

Your messiah also didnt use youtube

[@mikeyhuerta63]

That’s okay he didn’t celebrate many things, it doesn’t mean it’s wrong to celebrate them, it has absolutely no wrong connotation to it

[@mikeyhuerta63]

Ps I absolutely love the lord Jesus as well

[@christiancinereviews7050]

​@@killaved4262 He no need KZbin he knows everything.

[@SFayeLewis]

Sources?

[@SomasAcademy]

Listed at the end of the video, though the last one is obscured by the endcard (it's "Exhibit III: The Pharaoh of the Joseph Story" by Benjamin Edidin Scolnic in "If the Egyptians Drowned in the Red Sea where are Pharaohs Chariots?")

[@SFayeLewis]

@@SomasAcademy thanks also are you Christian

[@SomasAcademy]

@@SFayeLewis No problem, and no I'm not Christian.

[@user-dl7dq1kr3w]

History of dancing 🤌🏻

[@zoyita04]

I don't celebrate birthdays either, I don't like to worship humans.

[@mylife-my4br]

Boy girl guy

[@SomasAcademy]

what

[@lionf7224]

Frst of all "day 1 festival of Renenutet, also identified as the birthday of Nepri (personification of grain)" Wepet-renpet 'Opening of the Year' = Mesut-Ra 'birth of Ra' = Coptic Mesori (approximately July, ideally) The five days over the year' (= days 361-365 of the official year, added to the 12 months) day 1 birthday of Osiris day 2 birthday of Horus day 3 birthday of Seth day 4 birthday of Isis day 5 birthday of Nephthys ~Festivals in the ancient Egyptian calendar #University College London The Bible is speaking facts and truth as absence of evidence isn't evidence of absences Jesus Christ wins & is LORD and Messiah

[@lionf7224]

Known especially for monumental architecture and statuary honoring the gods and PHARAOHS, the New Kingdom, a period of nearly 500 years of political stability and economic prosperity, also produced an abundance of artistic masterpieces created for use by nonroyal individuals.

[@SomasAcademy]

Source on these "birthdays"?