About December 25
December 25, 2021 is the 359th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 38 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.
- 1000 –The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
- 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.
- 1553 –Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
- 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.
- 1850 –Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
- 1868 –U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
- 1926 –Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
- 1927 –The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
- 1941 –Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
- 1941 –Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
- 1950 –The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
- 1968 –42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
- 1974 –Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
- 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.
- 1991 –Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine’s referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
- 2003 –The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
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