The December 17th is the 351e Jour of the Année (352e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . It remainder 14 days before the end of the year.

Events

  •    546: Catch of Rome by Totila, king of the Ostrogoths, after a one year old seat.
  •     942: Assassination of the second duke of Normandy, Guillaume I {{er}} '' Long-Sword '' by the men of the count de Flandre Arnoul I {{er}} with Picquigny.
  • 1398 : Tamerlan gains with Panipat a victory Mohammed Toughklak (sources to be checked)
  • 1498: Cancellation of the marriage of Louis XII and Jeanne de France.
  • 1531 : Installation of the Enquiry to Lisbon by the Pope Clement VII
  • 1538: Excommunication of the king Henri VIII of England by the Pope Paul III
  • 1600: Marriage in Lyon of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis, girl of François Ier de Médicis large-duke of Tuscany and Jeanne de Habsbourg
  • 1718: The Great Britain declares the war with the Spain.
  • 1789 :
    • has Paris, the constituent Assembly decides to sponge the national Debt by selling the goods of the Clergé.
    • Louis XVI recognizes the anglophone independence of the colonies of America and gives its agreement for a negotiation between the two parts. The France promises subsidies, weapons, soldiers and opens its ports with the American trade. The Americans won their bet: to insulate the England. Nothing any more seems to oppose to their victory.
  • 1807 : Napoleon 1 {{er}} sign the Decree of Milan prohibiting any trade with the the United Kingdom
  • 1819: The Colombia is formed by Simon Bolivar.
  • 1864 : First representation, with the theater of the Varieties, Paris, of the Beautiful Helene , Opera-puffs out in three acts composed by Jacques Offenbach, on a booklet of Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, one of the most successful works and most famous of Offenbach.
  • 1885 : Madagascar: By the signed treaty with Tamatave, the France obtains the protectorate of the Grande-Ile, which it is “charged” to represent in all the foreign relations.
  • 1903 :
    • has Kitty Hawk (the United States), Orville and Wilbur Wright, at one time editors of a small newspaper then manufacturers of bicycles, take as of now place, at the sides of the French Clément Ader, with the first rank of the pioneers of the sky.
    • First Patent of process of Photography color
  • 1907: Independence of the Bhutan: Ugyen Wangchuk is elected and becomes the first hereditary king of Bhutan, melting a dynasty which always reigns on the country.
  • 1917 : Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister (preserving) for the Canada is re-elected after the victory of the Conservative party, which obtains 153 seats at the Parliament against only 82 with the Libéraux.
  • 1935 : At the time of the thirty-second birthday of the first flight of the Brothers Wright, the American Donald Wills Douglas launches a new plane, the DC-3 which will be the plane high-speed motorboat of the years 1930; he will be used for military transport and will become after the war the type even of the airliner.
  • 1941 : The Japan board unload in the North of Borneo.
  • 1953 : With Washington, the federal authorities approve the technical standards of television colors.
  • 1957 :
    • With Cap Canaveral, in Florida, first test of the missile Atlas .
    • Creation of the Partido Acción Nacional, Mexican political party
  • 1961: Nehru takes again the last Portuguese possession in India, Goa. It is the end of the European presence in the Indian continent.
  • 1969: Signature of a treaty of 20 years friendship between the Algeria and the Tunisia.
  • 1971 : Ninety thousand soldiers Pakistani go to the Indians to the Eastern Pakistan, become thus independent under the name of Bangladesh.
  • 1972 : With Saint-Ouen, at the time of the twentieth congress of the French Communist party, Georges Marchais is elected with the head of the party.
  • 1973 : With the airport of Rome, an attack with the machine-gun and the grenade of Arab terrorists makes thirty-two dead.
  • 1976 : The dissident Vladimir Boukovsky is released by Moscow, against the release of the Communist Luis Corvalán by the dictatorship of the Chile.
  • 1981 : Foundation of the federation of Sénégambie.
  • 1982 : Calling upon the cruelty of this hunting, the European Union prohibits the importation of skins of Phoque of the Canada.
  • 1983 :*
  • 1985:
    • In front of a department store with London, six people are killed by a bomb of the WILL GO.
    • the Incendie of a Discothèque with Madrid makes eighty-three dead.
  • 1989 :
    • Fernando Collor of Mello gains the first free presidential election in twenty-nine years with the Brésil.
    • Insurrection with Timisoara, beginning of the Rumanian revolution.
    • First diffusion of Simpson.
  • 1995 : in Austria, victory with legislative of the outgoing chancellor Franz Vranitzky; Viktor Klima will succeed two years later to him.
  • 1996 :
  • 1998 :
    • In Iceland, the Parliament adopts a law allowing pointing Génétique of the population.
    • Beginning of Anglo-American bombardments in Iraq, aiming at nuclear and chemical equipment.
  • 1999 : With the Venezuela, assessment after three weeks of pouring rain: hundred thirty-seven died in the area of Caracas.
  • 2002 : Peace agreement in Democratic republic of Congo
  • 2006 :

Births

Death

Celebrations

16 and December 17th: Kazakhstan, Day of Independence (into Cyrillic: Тәуелсіздіккүні)

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Daniel the Prophet
  • Ananias, Azarias and Misaël
  • Holy Judicaël († 658), (or Holy Gaël)
  • Holy Lazare
  • Holy Briac († 555), abbot in the Coast-with Armor.

See too

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