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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