Events in History
- Dec 25 Return of Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch
- Dec 31 British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal
Birthdays in History
- Dec 23 Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York, born in Bolton, Massachusetts
Deaths in History
- Dec 25 James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)