About December 25
December 25, 2024 is the 360th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 35 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.
- 350 –Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
- 800 –Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
- 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.
- 1261 –John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
- 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.
- 1837 –Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
- 1926 –Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
- 1941 –Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
- 1946 –The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1.
- 1947 –The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
- 1965 –The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People’s Organisation is founded in Taiz
- 1974 –Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
- 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.
- 2004 –Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
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