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The following events took place on December 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 44 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1060

  Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
• 1240

  Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
• 1534

  The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
• 1648

  Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King’s trial to go ahead; came to be known as “Pride’s Purge”.
• 1704

  Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
• 1745

  Charles Edward Stuart’s army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
• 1768

  The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• 1790

  The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
• 1865

  The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
• 1877

  The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
• 1884

  The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
• 1897

  London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
• 1904

  Theodore Roosevelt articulated his “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
• 1907

  A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
• 1916

  World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
• 1917

  Finland declares independence from Russia.
• 1917

  Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
• 1917

  World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
• 1921

  The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
• 1922

  One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
• 1928

  The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
• 1933

  U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene.
• 1941

  World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
• 1947

  The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
• 1953

  Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
• 1956

  A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
• 1957

  Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
• 1967

  Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
• 1969

  Meredith Hunter is killed by Hells Angels during a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
• 1971

  Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi’s recognition of Bangladesh.

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