About December 5
December 5, 2025 is the 339th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 74 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 5
- 63 BC –Cicero gave the fourth and final Catiline Orations.
- 663 –Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
- 771 –Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
- 1082 –Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
- 1484 –Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- 1590 –Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
- 1746 –Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
- 1757 –Seven Years’ War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
- 1766 –In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
- 1775 –At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1848 –California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
- 1865 –Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
- 1876 –Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
- 1936 –The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
- 1941 –World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
- 1983 –Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
- 2006 –Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
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