Historical Events
- Dec 25 Return of Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch
- Dec 31 British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 3 Joseph Gelinek, Czech composer, born in Beroun, Czech Republic (d. 1825)
- Dec 11 Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1832)
- Dec 20 Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, Flemish horn player and composer, born in Ypres, Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) (d. 1832)
- Dec 23 Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York, born in Bolton, Massachusetts