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Events:C/P.
333 Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
350 Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicated his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
800 Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1000 The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1066 William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
1100 Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
1130 Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily.
1261 John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
1553 Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
1599 The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
1643 Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
1776 George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
1826 The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
1837 Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeated by Seminole Native Americans.
1850 Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
1868 U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
1914 World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
1926 Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
1927 The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
1932 A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
1941 Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
1941 World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
1941 the Admiral Ιmile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
1946 The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1.
1947 The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
1950 The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
1963 Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
1965 The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneouver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
1968 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
1974 Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
1974 Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
1977 Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1989 Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist President of Romania and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena are condemned to death and executed after a flawed and summary trial.
1990 The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
2000 Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
2004 Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
2007 A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
333 Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
350 Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicated his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
800 Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1000 The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1066 William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
1100 Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
1130 Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily.
1261 John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
1553 Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
1599 The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
1643 Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
1776 George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
1826 The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
1837 Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeated by Seminole Native Americans.
1850 Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
1868 U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
1914 World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
1926 Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
1927 The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
1932 A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
1941 Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
1941 World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
1941 the Admiral Ιmile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
1946 The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1.
1947 The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
1950 The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
1963 Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
1965 The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneouver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
1968 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
1974 Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
1974 Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
1977 Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1989 Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist President of Romania and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena are condemned to death and executed after a flawed and summary trial.
1990 The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
2000 Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
2004 Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
2007 A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253
End of C/P.