Events in History
Event of Interest
Dec 28 Comte de Rochambeau and Nicolas Luckner are the last generals to be made Marshal of France by Louis XVI before the Revolution
Comte de Rochambeau
Louis XVI
- Dec 31 Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
Birthdays in History
- Dec 11 David Brewster, Scottish physicist and inventor (kaleidoscope), born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland (d. 1868)