About December 25

December 25, 2023 is the 359th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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Capricorn 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 47 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On December 25

  • 333
    Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
  • 800
    Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
  • 1066
    William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
  • 1100
    Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
  • 1130
    Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily.
  • 1261
    John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
  • 1643
    Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
  • 1776
    George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain’s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
  • 1826
    The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
  • 1850
    Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
  • 1926
    Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
  • 1932
    A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
  • 1947
    The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
  • 1963
    Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
  • 1974
    Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
  • 1974
    Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
  • 1977
    Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.
  • 1990
    The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
  • 2000
    Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
  • 2004
    Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005.

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