- Dec 1 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
- Dec 1 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
- Dec 1 Flag of Greece officially raised at Firka Fortress, Chania Crete symbolising the union of Crete and Greece.
- Dec 2 Archdiocese of Managua created
- Dec 2 French Government of Louis Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
- Dec 6 White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
- Dec 8 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
- Dec 9 Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
- Dec 9 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
- Dec 10 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali"
- Dec 11 "Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
- Dec 12 Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
- Dec 13 British foreign minister Sir Edward Grey proposes that southern Albania be divided between Greece and Albania with compensation to Greece in the Aegean islands
- Dec 14 Greece formally takes possession of Crete
- Dec 15 Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
Event of Interest
Dec 16 Charlie Chaplin begins his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
Charlie Chaplin
Event of Interest
Dec 23 US President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
Woodrow Wilson
Event of Interest
Dec 26 Ambrose Bierce’s last known communication, a letter to his close friend Blanche Partington
Ambrose Bierce