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| December 1st, 2007 (December 01 2007) | Death | Anton Rodgers, British actor (born in 1933) | |
| December 1st, 2006 (December 01 2006) | Death | Claude Jade, French actress (born in 1948) | |
| December 1st, 2006 (December 01 2006) | Death | Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (McGill University) (born in 1937) | |
| December 1st, 2005 (December 01 2005) | Death | Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (born in 1938) | |
| December 1st, 2004 (December 01 2004) | Death | Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (born in 1911) | |
| December 1st, 2003 (December 01 2003) | Death | Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (born in 1911) | |
| December 1st, 2003 (December 01 2003) | Death | Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (born in 1928) | |
| December 1st, 2002 (December 01 2002) | Death | Dave McNally, American baseball player (born in 1942) | |
| December 1st, 2001 (December 01 2001) | Event | Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA s purchase by American Airlines. | |
| December 1st, 2001 (December 01 2001) | Birth | Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan | |
| December 1st, 2001 (December 01 2001) | Death | Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (born in 1909) | |
| December 1st, 1998 (December 01 1998) | Event | Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world s largest company. | |
| December 1st, 1998 (December 01 1998) | Death | Freddie Young, British cinematographer (born in 1902) | |
| December 1st, 1997 (December 01 1997) | Death | Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (born in 1908) | |
| December 1st, 1997 (December 01 1997) | Death | Michel Belanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (born in 1929) | |
| December 1st, 1997 (December 01 1997) | Death | Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (born in 1920) | |
| December 1st, 1996 (December 01 1996) | Death | Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (born in 1928) | |
| December 1st, 1991 (December 01 1991) | Event | Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. | |
| December 1st, 1991 (December 01 1991) | Death | George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (born in 1911) | |
| December 1st, 1990 (December 01 1990) | Event | Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed. | |
| December 1st, 1989 (December 01 1989) | Event | Right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed forces Movement (RAM) attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d etat. | |
| December 1st, 1989 (December 01 1989) | Event | Cold War: East Germany s parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state. | |
| December 1st, 1989 (December 01 1989) | Death | Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (born in 1931) | |
| December 1st, 1988 (December 01 1988) | Event | Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan. | |
| December 1st, 1987 (December 01 1987) | Death | James Baldwin, American writer (born in 1924) | James Baldwin Quotes |
| December 1st, 1987 (December 01 1987) | Death | Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (born in 1918) | |
| December 1st, 1986 (December 01 1986) | Death | Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (born in 1924) | |
| December 1st, 1984 (December 01 1984) | Death | Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (born in 1911) | |
| December 1st, 1982 (December 01 1982) | Event | At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. | |
| December 1st, 1981 (December 01 1981) | Event | A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on-board. | |
| December 1st, 1980 (December 01 1980) | Birth | Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer | |
| December 1st, 1979 (December 01 1979) | Birth | Ryan Malone, American Hockey Player | |
| December 1st, 1979 (December 01 1979) | Birth | Angelique Bates, American Actress | |
| December 1st, 1978 (December 01 1978) | Birth | Mat Kearney, American singer and songwriter | |
| December 1st, 1977 (December 01 1977) | Birth | Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park) | Brad Delson Quotes |
| December 1st, 1977 (December 01 1977) | Birth | Jared Fogle, American Subway spokesperson | |
| December 1st, 1976 (December 01 1976) | Birth | Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (died in 1998) | |
| December 1st, 1975 (December 01 1975) | Birth | Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer | |
| December 1st, 1975 (December 01 1975) | Death | Nellie Fox, American baseball player (born in 1927) | |
| December 1st, 1975 (December 01 1975) | Death | Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (born in 1906) | |
| December 1st, 1974 (December 01 1974) | Event | TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on-board. | |
| December 1st, 1974 (December 01 1974) | Event | Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| December 1st, 1974 (December 01 1974) | Birth | Costinha, Portuguese footballer | |
| December 1st, 1974 (December 01 1974) | Birth | David Ludwig, American composer | |
| December 1st, 1973 (December 01 1973) | Event | Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia. | |
| December 1st, 1973 (December 01 1973) | Birth | Jon Theodore, American musician | |
| December 1st, 1973 (December 01 1973) | Death | David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (born in 1886) | |
| December 1st, 1972 (December 01 1972) | Birth | Norbert Wojtowicz, Polish historian and theologian | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Event | Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Event | Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir. | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Birth | Emily Mortimer, English actress | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Birth | Stephanie Finochio, American professional wrestler | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Birth | Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Birth | Dolgorsuren Serjbudee, Mongolian professional wrestler | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Birth | Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter | |
| December 1st, 1971 (December 01 1971) | Birth | John Schlimm, American author | |
| December 1st, 1970 (December 01 1970) | Birth | Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman | |
| December 1st, 1970 (December 01 1970) | Birth | Kirk Rueter, American baseball player | |
| December 1st, 1970 (December 01 1970) | Birth | Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian | |
| December 1st, 1969 (December 01 1969) | Event | Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. | |
| December 1st, 1969 (December 01 1969) | Death | Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (born in 1937) | |
| December 1st, 1968 (December 01 1968) | Birth | Justin Chadwick, British actor and director | |
| December 1st, 1968 (December 01 1968) | Death | Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (baryton) and composer born in Transylvania (born in 1887) | |
| December 1st, 1968 (December 01 1968) | Death | Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (born in 1921) | |
| December 1st, 1967 (December 01 1967) | Birth | Nestor Carbonell, American actor | |
| December 1st, 1966 (December 01 1966) | Birth | Katherine LaNasa, American actress | |
| December 1st, 1966 (December 01 1966) | Birth | Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player | |
| December 1st, 1965 (December 01 1965) | Event | The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders. | |
| December 1st, 1964 (December 01 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| December 1st, 1964 (December 01 1964) | Birth | Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer | |
| December 1st, 1964 (December 01 1964) | Death | J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (born in 1892) | |
| December 1st, 1963 (December 01 1963) | Event | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India. | |
| December 1st, 1963 (December 01 1963) | Birth | Marco Greco, Brazilian racing driver | |
| December 1st, 1963 (December 01 1963) | Birth | Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer | |
| December 1st, 1963 (December 01 1963) | Birth | Nathalie Lambert, Quebec short track speed skater | |
| December 1st, 1962 (December 01 1962) | Birth | Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater | |
| December 1st, 1962 (December 01 1962) | Birth | Joe Quesada, American comic book writer | |
| December 1st, 1961 (December 01 1961) | Event | The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea. | |
| December 1st, 1961 (December 01 1961) | Birth | Jeremy Northam, English actor | |
| December 1st, 1961 (December 01 1961) | Birth | Armin Meiwes, German cannibal | |
| December 1st, 1960 (December 01 1960) | Event | Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusation of attempted arson. | Paul McCartney Quotes |
| December 1st, 1960 (December 01 1960) | Birth | Carol Alt, American supermodel | |
| December 1st, 1959 (December 01 1959) | Event | Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent. | |
| December 1st, 1959 (December 01 1959) | Birth | Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician | |
| December 1st, 1959 (December 01 1959) | Birth | Rick Leventhal, American broadcast journalist | |
| December 1st, 1959 (December 01 1959) | Birth | Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer | |
| December 1st, 1958 (December 01 1958) | Event | Central African Republic becomes independent from France. | |
| December 1st, 1958 (December 01 1958) | Event | The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns. | |
| December 1st, 1958 (December 01 1958) | Birth | Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and coach | |
| December 1st, 1958 (December 01 1958) | Birth | Charlene Tilton, American actress | |
| December 1st, 1956 (December 01 1956) | Birth | Julee Cruise, American singer and actress | |
| December 1st, 1955 (December 01 1955) | Event | American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | |
| December 1st, 1955 (December 01 1955) | Birth | Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor | |
| December 1st, 1955 (December 01 1955) | Birth | Veronica Forque, Spanish actress | |
| December 1st, 1954 (December 01 1954) | Birth | Bob Goen, American television host | |
| December 1st, 1954 (December 01 1954) | Birth | Annette Haven, American pornographic actress | |
| December 1st, 1954 (December 01 1954) | Death | Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (born in 1897) | |
| December 1st, 1952 (December 01 1952) | Event | The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation. | |
| December 1st, 1951 (December 01 1951) | Birth | Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (died in 1987) | |
| December 1st, 1951 (December 01 1951) | Birth | Treat Williams, American actor | |
| December 1st, 1950 (December 01 1950) | Birth | Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer | |
| December 1st, 1950 (December 01 1950) | Death | E. J. Moeran, English composer (born in 1894) | |
| December 1st, 1949 (December 01 1949) | Birth | Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (died in 1993) | |
| December 1st, 1949 (December 01 1949) | Birth | Sebastian Pinera, Chilean businessman and presidential candidate | |
| December 1st, 1948 (December 01 1948) | Birth | George Foster, American baseball player | |
| December 1st, 1948 (December 01 1948) | Birth | Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian | |
| December 1st, 1947 (December 01 1947) | Birth | Alain Bashung, French singer | |
| December 1st, 1947 (December 01 1947) | Birth | Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league footballer | |
| December 1st, 1947 (December 01 1947) | Death | Aleister Crowley, English occultist (born in 1875) | Aleister Crowley Quotes |
| December 1st, 1947 (December 01 1947) | Death | G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (born in 1877) | |
| December 1st, 1946 (December 01 1946) | Birth | Gilbert O Sullivan, Irish singer | |
| December 1st, 1945 (December 01 1945) | Birth | Bette Midler, American actress and singer | Eric Idle Quotes |
| December 1st, 1944 (December 01 1944) | Birth | Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor | |
| December 1st, 1944 (December 01 1944) | Birth | Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Oyster Cult) | |
| December 1st, 1944 (December 01 1944) | Birth | John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors) | |
| December 1st, 1944 (December 01 1944) | Birth | Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin | |
| December 1st, 1944 (December 01 1944) | Birth | Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco | |
| December 1st, 1944 (December 01 1944) | Birth | Michael W. Hagee, 33rd Commandant of the United States Marine Corps | |
| December 1st, 1943 (December 01 1943) | Death | Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (born in 1862) | |
| December 1st, 1942 (December 01 1942) | Birth | John Crowley, American author | |
| December 1st, 1941 (December 01 1941) | Event | World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. | |
| December 1st, 1940 (December 01 1940) | Birth | Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (died in 2005) | |
| December 1st, 1939 (December 01 1939) | Birth | Lee Trevino, American golfer | |
| December 1st, 1938 (December 01 1938) | Birth | Sandy Nelson, American drummer | |
| December 1st, 1937 (December 01 1937) | Birth | Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (died in 2005) | |
| December 1st, 1937 (December 01 1937) | Birth | Chuck Low, American actor | |
| December 1st, 1937 (December 01 1937) | Birth | Vaira Vike-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia | |
| December 1st, 1935 (December 01 1935) | Birth | Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian | Woody Allen Quotes |
| December 1st, 1934 (December 01 1934) | Event | In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev. | |
| December 1st, 1934 (December 01 1934) | Birth | Billy Paul, American singer | |
| December 1st, 1934 (December 01 1934) | Death | Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (born in 1886) | |
| December 1st, 1933 (December 01 1933) | Birth | Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (died in 1996) | |
| December 1st, 1933 (December 01 1933) | Birth | Lou Rawls, American singer (died in 2006) | |
| December 1st, 1932 (December 01 1932) | Birth | Matt Monro, English singer (died in 1985) | |
| December 1st, 1931 (December 01 1931) | Birth | Jimmy Lyons, American musician (died in 1986) | |
| December 1st, 1931 (December 01 1931) | Birth | Jim Nesbitt, singer (died in 2007) | |
| December 1st, 1930 (December 01 1930) | Birth | Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (died in 2002) | |
| December 1st, 1928 (December 01 1928) | Birth | Emily McLaughlin, American actress (died in 1991) | |
| December 1st, 1928 (December 01 1928) | Death | Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (born in 1888) | |
| December 1st, 1926 (December 01 1926) | Birth | Robert Symonds, American actor (died in 2007) | |
| December 1st, 1925 (December 01 1925) | Event | World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements. | |
| December 1st, 1925 (December 01 1925) | Birth | Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (died in 1998) | |
| December 1st, 1923 (December 01 1923) | Birth | Stansfield Turner, American admiral and CIA director | |
| December 1st, 1923 (December 01 1923) | Birth | Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (died in 2001) | |
| December 1st, 1923 (December 01 1923) | Death | Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (born in 1836) | |
| December 1st, 1922 (December 01 1922) | Birth | Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (died in 1979) | |
| December 1st, 1922 (December 01 1922) | Birth | Paul Picerni, American actor | |
| December 1st, 1919 (December 01 1919) | Event | Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28). | |
| December 1st, 1918 (December 01 1918) | Event | Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28). National Council of Romanians in Banat had voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania. National Council of Romanians in Transylvania had voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania (see Union of Transylvania with Romania). | |
| December 1st, 1918 (December 01 1918) | Event | Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. | |
| December 1st, 1918 (December 01 1918) | Event | The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. | |
| December 1st, 1917 (December 01 1917) | Birth | Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager | |
| December 1st, 1916 (December 01 1916) | Death | Charles de Foucauld, French religious leader (born in 1858) | |
| December 1st, 1913 (December 01 1913) | Event | The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. | |
| December 1st, 1913 (December 01 1913) | Event | Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the first Balkan war, is annexed by Greece. | |
| December 1st, 1913 (December 01 1913) | Birth | Mary Martin, American actor and singer (died in 1990) | |
| December 1st, 1912 (December 01 1912) | Birth | Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (died in 1986) | Saki Quotes |
| December 1st, 1911 (December 01 1911) | Birth | Walter Alston, American baseball manager (died in 1984) | |
| December 1st, 1911 (December 01 1911) | Birth | Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (died in 1999) | |
| December 1st, 1910 (December 01 1910) | Birth | Alicia Markova, English ballerina (died in 2004) | |
| December 1st, 1908 (December 01 1908) | Birth | Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (died in 1984) | |
| December 1st, 1905 (December 01 1905) | Birth | Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (died in 1994) | |
| December 1st, 1901 (December 01 1901) | Birth | Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (died in 1988) | |
| December 1st, 1896 (December 01 1896) | Birth | Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (died in 1974) | Georgy Zhukov Quotes |
| December 1st, 1895 (December 01 1895) | Birth | Henry Williamson, English author (died in 1977) | Henry Williamson Quotes |
| December 1st, 1886 (December 01 1886) | Birth | Rex Stout, American author (died in 1975) | Rex Stout Quotes |
| December 1st, 1884 (December 01 1884) | Event | American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy. | |
| December 1st, 1884 (December 01 1884) | Birth | Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (died in 1976) | |
| December 1st, 1884 (December 01 1884) | Death | William Swainson (lawyer), second, and last, Attorney-General (New Zealand) of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (born in 1809) | |
| December 1st, 1873 (December 01 1873) | Birth | Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (died in 1924) | |
| December 1st, 1869 (December 01 1869) | Birth | Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (died in 1923) | |
| December 1st, 1866 (December 01 1866) | Death | George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (died in 1790) | |
| December 1st, 1865 (December 01 1865) | Death | Abraham Emanuel Frohlich, Swiss poet (born in 1796) | Abraham Quotes |
| December 1st, 1864 (December 01 1864) | Event | In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| December 1st, 1844 (December 01 1844) | Birth | Alexandra of Denmark, Danish Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died in 1925) | |
| December 1st, 1830 (December 01 1830) | Death | Pope Pius VIII (born in 1761) | |
| December 1st, 1826 (December 01 1826) | Event | French philhellene Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege. | |
| December 1st, 1825 (December 01 1825) | Death | Tsar Alexander I of Russia (born in 1777) | |
| December 1st, 1824 (December 01 1824) | Event | U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution). | |
| December 1st, 1822 (December 01 1822) | Event | Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil. | |
| December 1st, 1821 (December 01 1821) | Event | The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued. | |
| December 1st, 1792 (December 01 1792) | Birth | Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (died in 1856) | |
| December 1st, 1768 (December 01 1768) | Event | The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromoy in Norway. | |
| December 1st, 1767 (December 01 1767) | Death | Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (born in 1710) | |
| December 1st, 1766 (December 01 1766) | Birth | Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (died in 1826) | |
| December 1st, 1761 (December 01 1761) | Birth | Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (died in 1850) | |
| December 1st, 1755 (December 01 1755) | Death | Maurice Greene, English composer (born in 1696) | |
| December 1st, 1750 (December 01 1750) | Death | Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born in 1671) | |
| December 1st, 1743 (December 01 1743) | Birth | Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (died in 1817) | |
| December 1st, 1729 (December 01 1729) | Death | Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (born in 1665) | |
| December 1st, 1723 (December 01 1723) | Death | Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress | |
| December 1st, 1716 (December 01 1716) | Birth | Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (died in 1791) | |
| December 1st, 1709 (December 01 1709) | Death | Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (born in 1644) | Abraham Quotes |
| December 1st, 1707 (December 01 1707) | Death | Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (born in 1674) | |
| December 1st, 1690 (December 01 1690) | Birth | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (died in 1764) | |
| December 1st, 1660 (December 01 1660) | Death | Pierre d Hozier, French historian (born in 1592) | |
| December 1st, 1640 (December 01 1640) | Event | End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King Joao IV of Portugal, thus ending a 60 year period of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal s new dinasty, the House of Braganza, until 1668. | |
| December 1st, 1633 (December 01 1633) | Death | Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (born in 1566) | |
| December 1st, 1602 (December 01 1602) | Death | Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (born in 1582) | |
| December 1st, 1581 (December 01 1581) | Death | Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (born in 1540) | |
| December 1st, 1581 (December 01 1581) | Death | Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (born in 1550) | |
| December 1st, 1581 (December 01 1581) | Death | Alexander Briant, English saint (born in around 1556) | |
| December 1st, 1580 (December 01 1580) | Birth | Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died in 1637) | |
| December 1st, 1580 (December 01 1580) | Death | Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (born in 1509) | |
| December 1st, 1530 (December 01 1530) | Death | Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (born in 1480) | |
| December 1st, 1525 (December 01 1525) | Birth | Tadeas Hajek, Czech physician and astronomer (died in 1600) | |
| December 1st, 1521 (December 01 1521) | Birth | Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (died in 1573) | |
| December 1st, 1521 (December 01 1521) | Death | Pope Leo X (born in 1475) | |
| December 1st, 1455 (December 01 1455) | Death | Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (born in 1378) | |
| December 1st, 1433 (December 01 1433) | Death | Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (born in 1377) | |
| December 1st, 1420 (December 01 1420) | Event | Henry V of England enters Paris. | |
| December 1st, 1377 (December 01 1377) | Death | King Magnus II of Sweden (born in 1316) | |
| December 1st, 1241 (December 01 1241) | Death | Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1214) | |
| December 1st, 1167 (December 01 1167) | Event | The Lombard League is formed in northern Italy. | |
| December 1st, 1135 (December 01 1135) | Death | Henry I of England | |
| December 1st, 1083 (December 01 1083) | Birth | Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (died in 1153) | Anna Comnena Quotes |
| December 1st, 1081 (December 01 1081) | Birth | Louis VI of France (died in 1137) | |
| December 1st, 0800 (December 01 0800) | Event | Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. | Charlemagne Quotes |
