Historical Events
Election of Interest
Dec 3 Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
Andrew Jackson
Event of Interest
Dec 19 Report by US Vice President John C. Calhoun defending the rights of states to nullify federal laws is presented to the South Carolina legislature but it takes no action
John C. Calhoun
- Dec 28 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 8 Clinton Bowen Fisk, American abolitionist, Brevet Major General (Union Army), helped establish 1st free public schools in the South, born in York, New York (d. 1890)
- Dec 8 Robert Bullock, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Greenville, North Carolina (d. 1905)
- Dec 16 John Beatty, American banker, statesman, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1914)
- Dec 23 Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer and poet (Tagebuchblatter) whom composer Richard Wagner was infatuated with, born in Elberfeld (d. 1902)
- Dec 28 Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
- Dec 30 Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1885)
Famous Deaths
- Dec 2 Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
Robert Jenkinson
Dec 4 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Tory: 1812-27), dies of a stroke at 58
Robert Jenkinson