On this day: 1 December
Events, births and deaths on 1 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Keith Michell
- Births · Allyn Ann McLerie
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1083 · Births · Anna Komnene
- 1081 · Births · Louis VI of France
- 1018 · Deaths · Thietmar of Merseburg
Events · 35
- 1640Portuguese Restoration War — 1640-1688 war between Portugal and Spain
- 1800Battle of Ampfing — 1800 a battle during the French revolutionary wars
- 1862Abraham Lincoln's Second State of the Union Address — address by US president Abraham Lincoln
- 1887Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking — treaty
- 1913Buenos Aires Underground — rapid transit railway in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1916Noemvriana — 1916 political dispute and conflict in Greece
- 1918Kingdom of Iceland — former country
- 1918Union of Transylvania with Romania — annexation of Transylvania into Romania in 1918
- 19241924 Estonian coup d'état attempt — coup attempt by communists infiltrated from the USSR
- 1937Battle of Nanking — 1937 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1939Finnish Democratic Republic — short-lived puppet government created and recognised only by the Soviet Union
- 1939Risto Ryti's first cabinet — 23rd government of the Republic of Finland (1939-40)
- 1941Civil Air Patrol — civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force
- 1942Communist Party of Thailand — communist party in Thailand
- 1943Cairo Declaration — outcome of the 1943 Cairo Conference regarding the defeat of Japan and the return of its invaded territories
- 1945Shanghai Theatre Academy — university in Shanghai, China
- 1948People's Bank of China — central bank of the People's Republic of China
- 1948Somerton Man — 1948 unsolved death of an unidentified man in Somerton, South Australia
- 1950People’s Publishing House — Chinese publishing company
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System — international treaties concerning Antarctica
- 1963Nagaland — state in Northeastern India
- 1974TWA Flight 514 — aviation accident
- 1974Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 — aviation accident
- 1981Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308 — Aviation accident
- 1984Controlled Impact Demonstration — 1984 experiment involving purposeful crash of a Boeing 720, carried out for NASA and the FAA
- 19891989 Philippine coup attempt — attempted coup d'état against the government of Corazon Aquino
- 1990Hospital Authority — statutory body in Hong Kong
- 1991Ukrainian independence referendum — independence referendum
- 1997Heath High School shooting — December 1, 1997 school massacre in Kentucky, USA
- 2001United Russia — Putinist political party in Russia
- 2005Perm Krai — krai and federal subject in Volga Federal District, Russia
- 20062006 Asian Games — 15th edition of the Asian Games
- 2018
- 2019COVID-19 pandemic — pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (2019–2023)
- 2019Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women — 2019 women's association football match
Births · 60
- 1081(Julian date)Louis VI of France — king of the Franks from 1108 to 1137
- 1083(Julian date)Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian
- 1415(Julian date)Jan Długosz — Polish archbishop and historian
- 1521(Julian date)Takeda Shingen — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- 1580(Julian date)Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc — French astronomer (1580–1637)
- 1716Étienne Maurice Falconet — French sculptor (1716–1791)
- 1743Martin Heinrich Klaproth — German chemist (1743-1817)
- 1761Marie Tussaud — French artist (1761–1850)
- 1800Mihály Vörösmarty — Hungarian writer (1800-1855)
- 1805Dalai Lama 09 Lungtok Gyatso — 9th Dalai Lama (1805-1815)
- 1844Alexandra of Denmark — Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
- 1864Carsten Borchgrevink — Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer (1864-1934)
- 1884Karl Schmidt-Rottluff — German artist (1884–1976)
- 1886Zhu De — Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1886－1976)
- 1886Rex Stout — American writer (1886-1975)
- 1910Louis Slotin — Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
- 1912Minoru Yamasaki — American architect (1912–1986)
- 1913Mary Martin — American actress (1913-1990)
- 1922Vsevolod Bobrov — Soviet football, bandy, and ice hockey player (1922–1979)
- 1925Martin Rodbell — American biochemist (1925-1998)
- 1931George Maxwell Richards — President of Trinidad and Tobago (1931-2018)
- 1935Woody Allen — American filmmaker, actor and comedian (born 1935)
- 1937Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga — 6th President of Latvia
- 1939Lee Trevino — American golfer
- 1940Richard Pryor — American comedian and actor (1940–2005)
Deaths · 60
- 660(Julian date)Eligius — Roman Catholic bishop and saint
- 1018(Julian date)Thietmar of Merseburg — German bishop and historian (975–1018)
- 1135(Julian date)Henry I of England — King of England from 1100 to 1135 (1068–1135)
- 1241(Julian date)Isabella of England — Holy Roman Empress
- 1255(Julian date)Ala al-Din Muhammad III — Nizari Ismaili Imam
- 1374Magnus IV of Sweden — King of Sweden and Norway (1316–1374)
- 1433(Julian date)Go-Komatsu — emperor of Japan
- 1455(Julian date)Lorenzo Ghiberti — Italian sculptor and architect (1378–1455)
- 1521(Julian date)Leo X — pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
- 1530(Julian date)Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy — Austrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530)
- 1580(Julian date)Giovanni Morone — cardinal
- 1581(Julian date)Edmund Campion — English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
- 1602Kobayakawa Hideaki — fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada and the nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1633Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain — Infanta of Spain, Archduchess of Austria (1566-1633)
- 1729Giacomo F. Maraldi — French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (1665-1729)
- 1750Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr — German astronomer (1677–1750)
- 1755Maurice Greene — English composer and organist
- 1825Alexander I of Russia — The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
- 1866George Everest — Welsh surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)
- 1913Juhan Liiv — Estonian writer (1864-1913)
- 1914Alfred Thayer Maan — United States Navy admiral and historian (1840–1914)
- 1916Charles de Foucauld — French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
- 1928José Eustacio Rivera — Colombian writer, politician and diplomat (1888–1928)
- 1933Pekka Halonen — Finnish painter (1865-1933)
- 1934Sergei Kirov — Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)
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