On this day: 13 December
Events, births and deaths on 13 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Thomas Schelling
- Deaths · Alan Thicke
100 years ago1926
- Births · Carl Erskine
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1124 · Deaths · Callixtus II
- 1126 · Deaths · Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
Events · 22
- 1545(Julian date)Council of Trent — 19th Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church
- 1577(Julian date)Francis Drake's circumnavigation — first English circumnavigation of the world
- 1769Dartmouth College — private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, US
- 1864Second Battle of Fort McAllister — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1937Nanjing Massacre — 1937 mass murder by the Japanese army
- 1939Battle of the River Plate — 1939 first naval battle of the Second World War
- 1943Massacre of Kalavryta — 1943 massacre perpetrated by Wehrmacht in Greece
- 19571957 Farsinaj earthquake — earthquake in Sahneh County, Iran
- 19601960 Ethiopian coup attempt — attempted coups d'état against Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie
- 1968AI-5 — 1968 legislation by the Brazilian military government
- 19741975 spring offensive — 1975 the final North Vietnamese campaign in the Vietnam War that led to the capitulation of South Vietnam
- 1977University of Evansville men's basketball team plane crash — 1977 aviation accident
- 1981Martial law in Poland — Martial Law introduced by the government of the People's Republic of Poland, to suppress democratic mouvents and Solidarnosc activity
- 19821982 North Yemen earthquake — 1982 seismic event in the southern Arabian Peninsula
- 1989Attack on Derryard checkpoint — 1989 action of the Provisional IRA
- 1994Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 — crash of a regional US airliner in 1994
- 1995Banat Air Flight 166 — aviation accident in 1995 near Verona, Italy
- 20012001 Indian Parliament attack — 2001 terrorist attack on Indian parliament
- 2003Operation Red Dawn — 2003 U.S. military operation in the Iraq War
- 2005World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2005 — 2005 WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong
- 2007Treaty of Lisbon — Treaty modifying the constitutional basis of the European Union, signed by all the States of the Union in Lisbon on 2007
- 20112011 Liège attack — 2011 massacre in Belgium
Births · 60
- 1272Frederick III of Sicily — King of Sicily from 1295 to 1337
- 1363(Julian date)Jean Gerson — French academic (1363/1369–1429)
- 1520(Julian date)Sixtus V — pope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590
- 1533(Julian date)Eric XIV of Sweden — Swedish king (1533-1577)
- 1553(Julian date)Henry IV of France — King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610 (1553-1610)
- 1560(Julian date)Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully — French duke (1560-1641)
- 1678Yongzheng Emperor — emperor of Qing-dynasty China from 1722 to 1735 (1678–1735)
- 1720Carlo Gozzi — Italian playwright (1720-1806)
- 1724Franz Aepinus — German-Russian mathematician (1724-1802)
- 1780Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner — German chemist
- 1797Heinrich Heine — German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)
- 1816Werner von Siemens — German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
- 1818Mary Todd Lincoln — First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- 1836Franz von Lenbach — German painter (1836–1904)
- 1856Svetozar Boroević — Austro-Hungarian field marshal
- 1867Kristian Birkeland — Norwegian scientist (1867–1917)
- 1871Emily Carr — Canadian painter and writer (1871–1945)
- 1887George Pólya — Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
- 1887Alvin York — United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1887-1964)
- 1895Lucía Sánchez Saornil — Spanish poet, journalist, sindicalist, anarchist and feminist (1895-1970)
- 1902Talcott Parsons — American sociologist (1902 – 1979)
- 1903Ella Josephine Baker — African-American civil rights and human rights activist (1903–1986)
- 1906Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark — Duchess of Kent from 1934 to 1968
- 1908Van Heflin — American actor (1908–1971)
- 1911Trygve Haavelmo — Norwegian economist and econometrician
Deaths · 60
- 558Childebert I — Frankish King
- 838(Julian date)Pepin I of Aquitaine — 9th-century Frankish king
- 1124(Julian date)Callixtus II — Pope from 1119 to 1124
- 1126(Julian date)Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria
- 1204(Julian date)Moshe ben Maimon — Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
- 1250(Julian date)Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor — King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)
- 1404Albert I, Duke of Bavaria — Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland (1336-1404)
- 1466(Julian date)Donatello — Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (1386–1466)
- 1516(Julian date)
- 1521(Julian date)Manuel I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521
- 1557(Julian date)Niccolò Tartaglia — Italian mathematician (1499–1557)
- 1565(Julian date)Conrad Gessner — Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)
- 1621Catherine Stenbock — Queen Consort of Sweden (1535-1621)
- 1716Charles de La Fosse — French painter (1636-1716)
- 1721Alexander Selkirk — British sailor
- 1729(Julian date)Anthony Collins — English philosopher (1676-1729)
- 1754Mahmud I — 24th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1730–1754)
- 1769Christian Fürchtegott Gellert — German poet
- 1784Samuel Johnson — English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
- 1814Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne — Habsburg Austrian Field Marshal, writer and intellectual (1735-1814)
- 1849Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg — German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist (1766-1849)
- 1863Friedrich Hebbel — German poet and dramatist (1813-1863)
- 1868Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius — German botanist (1794-1868)
- 1881August Šenoa — Croatian novelist (1838-1881)
- 1883Victor de Laprade — French poet and critic (1812-1883)
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