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The following events took place on December 26. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 46 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1135

  Coronation of King Stephen of England.
• 1481

  Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
• 1776

  American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries.
• 1790

  Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
• 1793

  Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria.
• 1793

  The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
• 1799

  Four thousand people attend George Washington’s funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
• 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 Czar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
• 1846

  Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
• 1860

  The first ever inter-club association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.
• 1861

  American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.
• 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 died.
• 1870

  The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
• 1871

  Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
• 1883

  The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
• 1895

  New Empire Theatre, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England was destroyed by fire
• 1898

  Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
• 1900

  A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, 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, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
• 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.
• 1944

  World War II: George S. Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
• 1948

  Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
• 1963

  The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There” are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

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