About December 26
December 26, 2025 is the 360th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 5 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 53 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 26
- 1135 –Coronation of King Stephen of England.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
- 1790 –Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
- 1793 –Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
- 1793 –The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
- 1805 –Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
- 1846 –Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
- 1883 –The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
- 1900 –A relief crew arrives the the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
- 1925 –Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 1941 –U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
- 1943 –World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway’s North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
- 1975 –The Tupolev Tu-144 SST goes into service in Soviet Union.
- 1976 –The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
- 1982 –Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
- 1996 –Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
- 2004 –Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
- 2006 –An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
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