Events in History
- Dec 4 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
Election of Interest
Dec 5 Andrew Jackson re-elected US President after defeating Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
Event of Interest
Dec 18 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard reaches Tierra del Fuego for the first time
Charles Darwin
Event of Interest
Dec 28 John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
John C. Calhoun
Birthdays in History
- Dec 1 Archibald Gracie Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
- Dec 8 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author "Pa Guds Veje" and Nobel laureate 1903, born in Kvikne, Norway (d. 1910)
- Dec 12 Abraham Carel Wertheim, Dutch banker and philanthropist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1897)
- Dec 14 Daniel H. Reynolds, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Centerburg, Ohio (d. 1902)
Gustave Eiffel
Dec 15 Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect who designed and built the Eiffel tower, born in Dijon, France (d. 1923)
Gustave Eiffel
- Dec 19 John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone
- Dec 21 John Henry Ketcham, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Dover Plains, New York (d. 1906)
- Dec 22 Edward Hatch, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bangor, Maine (d. 1889)
- Dec 25 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish-American Major General (Union Army), born in County Cork, Republic of Ireland (d. 1865)
- Dec 27 Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art, born in Moscow (d. 1897)
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Dec 20 Inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (32) weds Constance Mundy
William Henry Fox Talbot
Deaths in History
- Dec 30 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies