Historical Events in December, Month of December Events
Here is a list of some historical events in December. You can learn What major event happened in December?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 22, 1788 | Nguyễn Huệ proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the Lê dynasty. |
| December 17, 1926 | Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful. |
| December 15, 1903 | Italian American food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a U.S. patent for inventing a machine that makes ice cream cones. |
| December 26, 1704 | Second Battle of Anandpur: In the Second Battle of Anandpur, Aurangzeb's two generals, Wazir Khan and Zaberdast Khan executed two children of Guru Gobind Singh, Zorawar Singh aged eight and Fateh Singh aged five, by burying them alive into a wall. |
| December 3, 2021 | COVID-19 pandemic: New Zealand moves into COVID-19 Protection Framework (Traffic Light System), moving Auckland out of lockdown for fully vaccinated people. |
| December 24, 1952 | First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber. |
| December 16, 1689 | Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. |
| December 14, 1986 | Qasba Aligarh massacre: Over 400 Muhajirs killed in revenge killings in Qasba colony after a raid on Pashtun heroin processing and distribution center in Sohrab Goth by the security forces. |
| December 15, 1965 | Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7. |
| December 25, 1968 | Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. |
| December 21, 1988 | The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world. |
| December 14, 1939 | Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. |
| December 13, 1643 | English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. |
| December 18, 1977 | United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board. |
| December 29, 1934 | Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.[15] |
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