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.
  • 1793
    Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
  • 1805
    Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
  • 1806
    Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
  • 1811
    A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
  • 1825
    Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
  • 1860
    The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
  • 1862
    American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
  • 1862
    Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
  • 1862
    The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
  • 1870
    The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
  • 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.
  • 1919
    Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
  • 1941
    U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
  • 1948
    Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
  • 1966
    The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
  • 1986
    The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
  • 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.

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