Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte
Dec 2 General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII
Election of Interest
Dec 5 Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President, George Clinton Vice President
Scientific Discovery
Dec 7 Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute
