Events in History
Event of Interest
Dec 9 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, the "American Minerva"
Noah Webster
- Dec 14 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Kentucky, to Cincinnati
- Dec 18 Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck
Event of Interest
Dec 23 Thomas Jefferson warns of slave revolts in the West Indies
Thomas Jefferson
- Dec 26 Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians.
Birthdays in History
- Dec 15 Henry Charles Carey, American economist (Principles of Poli Economy), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1879)
Weddings in History
- Dec 26 The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
Deaths in History
- Dec 6 Marie Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV, beheaded at 50
- Dec 7 Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
- Dec 9 Yolande de Polastron, Duchess de Polignac, French aristocrat, dies at 44
- Dec 23 Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
- Dec 28 Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75