Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting is set for a chilly Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan. While Christmas and holiday decorations have been showing up in New York City over the past few weeks, none represents the start of the season and spirit of NYC than the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

The Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony is still expected to continue today, despite the targeted shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, that happened a few blocks over this morning.

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will be lit for the season on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Here's everything you need to know about the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting

More than 50,000 multicolor LED lights will gleam from the impressively tall tree, per NBC. Here’s everything to know about the event of the season.

A festive crowd gathered at Trinity College Dublin for a traditional Christmas tree lighting and countdown ceremony on Dec. 2 was left in the dark when the lighting went awry. Video of the event shows the college provost leading the audience in a countdown,

This is the 15th year of the event.

Literary lights are a bit of a specialty at Trinity College Dublin, the alma mater of Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, and Sally Rooney. But Christmas tree lights? Not so much. Video recorded by Coco Wisdom shows the crowd joining in for the traditional countdown on December 2,