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 11, 1941 | World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan. |
| December 22, 1973 | A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Tanger-Boukhalef Airport (now Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport) in Tangier, Morocco, killing 106. |
| December 9, 1941 | World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan. |
| December 29, 1996 | Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. |
| December 2, 1244 | Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon. |
| December 21, 1973 | The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens. |
| December 9, 2021 | Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.[13][14] |
| December 1, 1862 | In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| December 17, 1967 | Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned. |
| December 30, 534 | The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire. |
| December 23, 1876 | First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans. |
| December 10, 1652 | Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy. |
| December 25, 2003 | UTA Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people. |
| December 27, 2007 | Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident. |
| December 31, 1796 | The incorporation of Baltimore as a city. |
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