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The following events took place on December 5. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 48 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 63 BC

  Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
• 633

  Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
• 1082

  Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
• 1408

  Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
• 1484

  Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
• 1492

  Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
• 1496

  King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of “heretics” from the country.
• 1757

  Seven Years’ War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
• 1766

  In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
• 1775

  At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1815

  Foundation of Maceió, Brazil.
• 1831

  Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
• 1847

  Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. senate.
• 1848

  California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
• 1865

  Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
• 1876

  The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, New York.
• 1916

  British premier H. H. Asquith resigns from his post.
• 1920

  Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
• 1931

  Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed by an order of Joseph Stalin.
• 1932

  German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
• 1933

  Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)
• 1934

  Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
• 1936

  The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
• 1941

  World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
• 1941

  World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
• 1943

  World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany’s secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
• 1945

  Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1952

  Great Smog: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
• 1955

  The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
• 1955

  E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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