A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 31st. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 31, 192 AD, Roman Emperor Commodus was assassinated by his own inner circle, setting the stage for The Year of the Five Emperors in 193. On December 31, 192, Roman Emperor Commodus was assassinated, one of many Roman emperors that met an untimely end. On December 31, 1695, a tax on windows went into effect in England, which resulted in many people…
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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 30th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 30, 1813, during the War of 1812, arson-happy British troops set the small city of Buffalo, New York ablaze as a means of punishing the upstart Americans. On December 30, 1970, former heavyweight boxing champion Charles L. “Sonny” Liston lay dead on the bedroom floor of his Las Vegas home. On December 30, 1977, serial killer Ted Bundy escaped from jail and…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 29th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 29, 1860, the first British oceangoing ironclad warship, the HMS Warrior, was launched, but she was not the first such ship in World History. On December 29, 1890, the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army perpetrated a massacre against Native Americans of the Lakota People near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. On December 29, 1890, the United…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 28th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 28, 1503, the exiled Gran Maestro of Florence, Piero di Lorenzo de Medici, known as Piero the Unfortunate, drowned in the Garigliano River while trying to escape the advancing French and Spanish armies that had just defeated the Italians in a battle over the control of Naples. On December 28, 1795, construction began on Yonge Street in York, Upper Canada…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 27th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 27, 1512, the King and Queen of Spain issued the Laws of Burgos, a set of rules for how Spaniards were to treat Native Americans in the Caribbean islands colonized by Spain. On December 27, 1771, French engineer, Henri Pitot, died at the age of 76. On December 27, 1922, the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned the first aircraft carrier in…