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January 1st - Official reopening of the white house (1818)
January 2nd - Mahatama Ghandi leaves the Tolstoy Farm (1913)
January 3rd - Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon (1431)
January 4th - Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus (46 BC)
January 5th - 1st steamboat sails, Red River (1859)
January 6th - Henry V crowned German king (1099)
January 7th - 1st printing in Hawaii (1822)
January 8th - Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty" (1964)
January 9th - Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins (1960)
January 10th - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BC)
January 11th - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (1813)
January 12th - Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily (1493)
January 13th - Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria (1099)
January 14th - Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt (1501)
January 15th - Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England (1535)
January 16th - The first grammar of Spanish is presented to Queen Isabella (1492)
January 17th - Bohemia adopts Gregorian calendar (1584)
January 18th - Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy (1913)
January 19th - Battle of Golden Hill (1770)
January 20th - Book of mother, published (820)
January 21st - 1st edition of Charles Dickens (1846)
January 22nd - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania (1941)
January 23rd - 1st radio rescue at sea (1909)
January 24th - Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death (1943)
January 25th - The London Corresponding Society is founded (1792)
January 26th - US income tax repealed (1871)
January 27th - The Young Left is founded in Norway (1909)
January 28th - Strike on Berlin ammunition factory (1918)
January 29th - Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" is 1st published (1845)
January 30th - Prussia takes possession of Hanover (1806)
January 31st - Charles becomes king of Italy (876)
February 1st - Sardinia and Austria sign alliance (1742)
February 2nd - New Amsterdam becomes a city, late called New York (1653)
February 3rd - Spain recognizes US independence (1783)
February 4th - Roman emperor Septimius Severus dies (211)
February 5th - Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England (1631)
February 6th - Britain declares war on France (1778)
February 7th - A flag is authorized for US Vice President (1936)
February 8th - Minor earthquake in London (1750)
February 9th - Austria declares war on Russia (1788)
February 10th - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress (1807)
February 11th - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia (1766)
February 12th - Pope Innocent II elected (1130)
February 13th - 1st appearance of cholera in London (1832)
February 14th - Oregon admitted as 33rd state of the Union (1859)
February 15th - Dutch coast hit by heavy storm (1552)
February 16th - Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame (1967)
February 17th - 1st US city lit by gas (1817)
February 18th - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (1503)
February 19th - Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark (1700)
February 20th - Austria declares bankruptcy (1811)
February 21st - Boris Godunov crowned tsar (1598)
February 22nd - Jews are expelled for Zurich (1349)
February 23rd - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered (1820)
February 24th - French troops conquer Breda (1793)
February 25th - Dalmatie flees Venice (1358)
February 26th - Lincoln signs National Currency Act (1863)
February 27th - Great fire in Bombay, India (1803)
February 28th - US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento (1847)
February 29th - US end regular flights with nuclear bombs (1968)
March 1st - 1st US census authorized (1790)
March 2nd - US passed it's 1st immigration law (1819)
March 3rd - Australian civil war ends (1409)
March 4th - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city (1837)
March 5th - Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen (1746)
March 6th - President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball (1865)
March 7th - Turkey and Venice sign peace treaty (1573)
March 8th -
1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic (1813)
March 9th - Jews are expelled from Carintha, Austria (1496)
March 10th - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire (418)
March 11th - Goths lay siege to Rome (537)
March 12th - Jews are expelled from Syria (1496)
March 13th - St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope (483)
March 14th - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno (1653)
March 15th - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court (1913)
March 16th - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts (1881)
March 17th - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor (455)
March 18th - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmunds, England (1190)
March 19th - Spanish troops occupy Manila (1571)
March 20th - Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants (1525)
March 21st - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid (717)
March 22nd - Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury (1556)
March 23rd - 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet (1066)
March 24th -
Handel & Haydn Society of Boston founded (1815
March 25th - 1st horse race in America takes place (1668)
March 26th - England takes control of Bombay, India (1668)
March 27th - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt (196)
March 28th - Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts (1774)
March 29th - King Gundobar of Burgundy delegates royal power (502)
March 30th - Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster (804)
March 31st - France and Spain sign truce (1504)
April 1st -
English guilds/corp goes under state control (1504)
April 2nd -
Austria & Bavaria sign peace (1745)
April 3rd - Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher (1848)
April 4th - University of Basle in Switzerland forms (1460)
April 5th - Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop (456)
April 6th - France declares war on Netherlands (1672)
April 7th - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil (1645)
April 8th -
Petrarch crowned a poet on the Capitoline Hill in Rome (1341)
April 9th - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark (1440)
April 10th - Louis III becomes King of West Francia (879)
April 11th - The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place (1775)
April 12th - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople (1204)
April 13th - Crusaders occupy Constantinople (1204)
April 14th -
England & France sign Peace of Susa (1629)
April 15th - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy (1776)
April 16th - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope (556)
April 17th - 1st commercial fishery established (1629)
April 18th -
San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city (1906)
April 19th -
Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel (1552)
April 20th - 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet (295)
April 21st - Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike (1420)
April 22nd - St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope (536)
April 23rd - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria (1504)
April 24th - Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder (1288)
April 25th - Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms (1614)
April 26th - German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights (1220)
April 27th - Netherlands & France sign military covenant (1662)
April 28th - Powers of Dutch inquisition extends (1550)
April 29th -
Joan of Arc
arrives at the siege of Orleans (1429)
April 30th -
Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule (313)
May 1st -
Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere (1523)
May 2nd - France & Spain sign Peace of Vervins (1598)
May 3rd - Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war (1616)
May 4th - Johan van Walbeeck's fleet departs to West Indies (1634)
May 5th - Jews are expelled from Speyer, Germany (1430)
May 6th - Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna (1312)
May 7th - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara (1355)
May 8th - St Boniface IV's reign as Catholic Pope ends (615)
May 9th - Lincoln Cathedral consecrated (1092)
May 10th - Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining (1278)
May 11th - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes the capital of the Roman Empire (330)
May 12th - Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands (1993)
May 13th - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath (1110)
May 14th - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten (1576)
May 15th - Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope (884)
May 16th - Peninsular War: Allies defeat French at Albuera (1811)
May 17th - Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels (1525)
May 18th - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya (1596)
May 19th -
Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht (1517)
May 20th - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed (1293)
May 21st - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington, authorized (1898)
May 22nd - Treaty of Le Goulet signed between France and England (1200)
May 23rd - Bomb attack on Italian embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die (1928)
May 24th - Dutch army demobilizes (1940)
May 25th - Oprah airs her last show (2011)
May 26th -
1st battle of Pequot at Mystic, Connnecticut kills 500 indians (1637)
May 27th - Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor (1942)
May 28th - Total solar eclipse occurs (1900)
May 29th - French banker Jacques Coeur's possessions confiscated (1453)
May 30th -
English peasant uprising begins in Essex (1381)
May 31st - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem (70)
June 1st -
Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated (193)
June 2nd - Russia & Austria sign agreements (1746)
June 3rd - Moscow houses & churches destroyed by fire (1752)
June 4th - Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory" (1812)
June 5th - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation (1950)
June 6th - 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43 (1885)
June 7th - Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain & Portugal divide America (1494)
June 8th - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem (65)
June 9th - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse (721)
June 10th - Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neuremberg (1538)
June 11th - Spanish co-land guardian Duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock (1572)
June 12th - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city (1903)
June 13th - Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris (1727)
June 14th - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov (1634)
June 15th -
George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army (1775)
June 16th -
Battle of Stoke, Nottinghamshire: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell (1487)
June 17th - Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland (1091)
June 18th - Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland (1574)
June 19th - Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas (1865)
June 20th - Coronation of Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France (1825)
June 21st - Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian (1498)
June 22nd - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reckoning) (1342)
June 23rd - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg crowned King of Germany (1298)
June 24th - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time (1322)
June 25th - 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany (1096)
June 26th - Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V (1409)
June 27th - Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king (1697)
June 28th -
Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress (1776)
June 29th -
Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona (1529)
June 30th - Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland (1294)
July 1st -
1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea (1097)
July 2nd - Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea (1576)
July 3rd - Hugh Capet (Hugh the Great) crowned King of the Franks (987)
July 4th -
US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain (1776)
July 5th -
English fleet under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, captures Cadiz (1596)
July 6th - Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania (1253)
July 7th - Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders (1124)
July 8th - US President
Woodrow Wilson
returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference (1919)
July 9th - Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria (1386)
July 10th - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
(1609)
July 11th -
English "Good Parliament" meets (1376)
July 12th - Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli (1109)
July 13th - Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht (1522)
July 14th - Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London (1682)
July 15th - Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion (1500)
July 16th - Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople (1054)
July 17th - Charles the Stout conquers Nijmegen (1473)
July 18th - Pope's authority declared void in England (1536)
July 19th - Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais (1380)
July 20th - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders (1495)
July 21st - Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria (976)
July 22nd - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France (1306)
July 23rd -
Crusaders attack Damascus (1148)
July 24th - Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer (1487)
July 25th - Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia (1360)
July 26th - President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces (1946)
July 27th - International Geographical Union forms in Brussels (1922)
July 28th - Second Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus (1148)
July 29th - 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins (1835)
July 30th - 3rd Tour de France won by Louis Trousselier of France (1905)
July 31st - 8th Tour de France won by Octave Lapize of France (1910)
August 1st -
Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III (1177)
August 2nd - French troops leave Flanders (1542)
August 3rd - Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia" (1676)
August 4th - London's head office of Hanze closed (1598)
August 5th - Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome (135)
August 6th - Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France (1870)
August 7th - Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI (1479)
August 8th - Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans (70)
August 9th - Opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1483)
August 10th - Protestant Iconoclasm "Beeldenstorm" begins in European Low Countries (1566)
August 11th - Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails (1522)
August 12th - French troops conquer Ambleteuse and kill all the English prisoners (1549)
August 13th - Hunger strike in Rotterdam (1740)
August 14th - Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantine military governor in Italy (554)
August 15th - Mary Queen of Scotland arrives in France, aged 6 (1548)
August 16th - "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies (1748)
August 17th - Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao (1795)
August 18th - Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland, according to legend (1587)
August 19th - German fleet bombs English coast (1914)
August 20th - Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice (1604)
August 21st - Erachus becomes bishop of Luik (959)
August 22nd - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor (392)
August 23rd - 1st Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea (1872)
August 24th - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz (1349)
August 25th - Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail (1425)
August 26th - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia (1778)
August 27th - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia (1610)
August 28th - Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan (1189)
August 29th - British troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia (1708)
August 30th - Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled (1563)
August 31st - Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months (1422)
September 1st -
Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine (1482)
September 2nd - Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion (44)
September 3rd -
New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) (1833)
September 4th - Conrad II (the Elder) chosen as King of Germany (1024)
September 5th - The First Opium War begins in China (1839)
September 6th - Battle of Frigidus, Northern Italy (394)
September 7th - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles (1251 BC)
September 8th - Battle of Orsha: Polish/Lithuania army defeat the Russian army (1518)
September 9th - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland (1513)
September 10th - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death (1349)
September 11th - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends (9)
September 12th - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis (1396)
September 13th - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) (1663)
September 14th - Western allies rearm West Germany (1950)
September 15th - Swedish troops occupy Riga (1621)
September 16th - Spanish troops occupy Dunkirk (1652)
September 17th - French troops occupy Mainz (1644)
September 18th -
US President George Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building (1793)
September 19th -
Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die (1559)
September 20th - Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen (368)
September 21st - Jews in Zurich, Switzerland, are accused of poisoning wells (1348)
September 22nd - Switzerland became an independent state (1499)
September 23rd - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade (1739)
September 24th - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope (366)
September 25th - Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia) (1212)
September 26th - Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey (1371)
September 27th - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000 (1290)
September 28th - Greek king George II back in Athens (1946)
September 29th - Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater (1902)
September 30th -
Netherlands & Sweden sign treaty (1681)
October 1st - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia (331)
October 2nd -
Venice/Turkey signs peace (1540)
October 3rd - Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia (1430)
October 4th - Last Julian calendar day in Spain, Portugal and pontifical states (1582)
October 5th -
Adolf Hitler is wounded in the left thigh by an exploding shell (1916)
October 6th -
5,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia massacred (1942)
October 7th - People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands (1714)
October 8th - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army (1775)
October 9th -
Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks (768)
October 10th -
Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands (1375)
October 11th - Aleppo Earthquake, later source claims 230,000 killed (1138)
October 12th - Jewish rabbi and philosopher, the Rambam reaches Jerusalem (1165)
October 13th - Prince of Condé flees Paris (1652)
October 14th - Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret (1893)
October 15th - Jews of Lublin are massacred (1655)
October 16th -
Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, despite being a woman (1384)
October 17th -
Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown (1781)
October 18th - Opening of the University of Heidelberg (1386)
October 19th - French retake Bordeaux following the Battle of Castillon (1453)
October 20th - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade (1097)
October 21st - Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders (1096)
October 22nd
-
Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition (1799)
October 23rd -
Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky (1917)
October 24th -
24 Jews are burned at the stake in Mecklenburg, Germany (1492)
October 25th -
Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF (1861)
October 26th -
Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace (1387)
October 27th -
Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam (1275)
October 28th -
Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain (1492)
October 29th -
First trial for witchcraft in Paris (1390)
October 30th -
Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces (637)
October 31st -
Earthquake in Safed, Palestine kills hundred (1759)
November 1st -
King John of England begins imprisoning Jews (1210)
November 2nd - 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia (1648)
November 3rd - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI (1394)
November 4th - Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam (1675)
November 5th - Spain & Austria sign secret treaty (1725)
November 6th - Zealand hit by heavy storm (1534)
November 7th - Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale) (1876)
November 8th -
1st Washington State election in which women could vote (1910)
November 9th-
US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him (1862(
November 10th -
English parliament accept army reduction (1697)
November 11th - 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC) (1868)
November 12th - Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments (1921)
November 13th - English Lady Jane Grey and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer accused of treason (1553)
November 14th - Leon Gambetta forms French government (1881)
November 15th - Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells (1348)
November 16th - English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel (1763)
November 17th - Congress holds its 1st session in Washington D.C. in incompleted Capitol building (1800)
November 18th - Storm flood ravages Dutch coast (1424)
November 19th - Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 (1824)
November 20th - New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights (1789)
November 21st - China prohibits the opium trade (1906)
November 22nd - President John F. Kennedy's Assassination (1963)
November 23rd - English parliament expels Jesuits (1584)
November 24th - River Thames in London freezes over (1434)
November 25th - First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland (1960)
November 26th - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston) (1716)
November 27th - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade (1095)
November 28th - The Royal Society forms in London (1660)
November 29th - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred (1349)
November 30th -
Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich (1922)
December 1st -
1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight (1921)
December 2nd - English language newspaper "Namoolos" begins publishing in Amsterdam (1620)
December 3rd - 1st annulment by court decree passes (1639)
December 4th - Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th (1680)
December 5th -
Charlemagne
becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother (771)
December 6th - 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery (1835)
December 7th - Marcus Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae (43)
December 8th - US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II (1941)
December 9th - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium (1894)
December 10th - First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder (1901)
December 11th - Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem (1572)
December 12th -
1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria (1098)
December 13th -
Sweden and Denmark signs Peace of Stettin (1570)
December 14th -
The French Invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon, officially ends (1812)
December 15th -
1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania (1791)
December 16th - Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC (1835)
December 17th - Austrian parliament approves 8-hour working day (1919)
December 18th -
New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify US constitution (1787)
December 19th -
King Henry II of England crowned (1154)
December 20th - Corporation Act enforced in England (1661)
December 21st - Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods (1163)
December 22nd -
Dutch people revolt against meat tax (1731)
December 23rd -
Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" (1776)
December 24th -
400 Burgundian soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy (1476)
December 25th - 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus (1)
December 26th - Long Parliament reforms in Westminster (1659)
December 27th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2 (1897)
December 28th - Westminster Abbey in London consecrated (1065)
December 29th - French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked (1786)
December 30th - "Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV (1980)
December 31st - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany (1944)
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