The December 24th is the 358e Jour of the Année (359e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 7 days before the end of the year.

Events

  •    562: Constantinople: The emperor Justinien, octogenarian, governs the new dedication of the masterpiece of his life, the basilica Holy-Sophie. The cupola, which had collapsed the May 7th 558, has just been rebuilt.

  • 1165 : New the king d' Écosse Guillaume I {{er}} '' the Lion '', which succeeds his/her brother Malcolm (Máel Coluim) IV, is crowned with the Abbaye of Scone, in the Perthshire.
  • 1294 : Election of Benedetto Caetani, which takes the name of pope Boniface VIII.
  • 1539 : Stay of the emperor Charles Quint with the Castle of Fontainebleau, during its voyage in France (until the December 30th).
  • 1588 : Assassination, with the Castle of Blois, the shortly after that of his/her brother the duke Henri of Lorraine, chief of the holy League, Louis II, Cardinal of Own way, archbishop-duke of Rheims of 1574 with 1588, on order of the King de France Henri III.
  • 1747 : Bay shipwreck of Morlaix, the boat “Alcide”, corsair with Saint-Malo.
  • 1770 : By laconic a ticket , Louis XV orders with the duke of Choiseul to be dislocated of all its loads and to be withdrawn on its tourangelles grounds of Chanteloup.
  • 1773 : Ottoman Empire, Abdülhamid Ier succeeds his/her father Mustafa III.
  • 1789 : With Paris, the Assemblée adopts a decree recognizing the Protestants suited to all civil and military employment. She also ensures to them the right of election and eligibility.
  • 1794 :
  • 1798 : The Great Britain and the Russia make alliance against the France
  • 1800: the First Consul Bonaparte escapes an attack street Saint-Nicaise with Paris. (see repression éphéméride January 9th 1801)
  • 1802: In France (3 nivôse), a stop organizes the creation of the chambers of commerce in twenty-two cities.
  • 1805 : The painter David begins his monumental composition of the the Sacring of Napoleon .
  • 1814 : to Ghent, signature of a peace treaty enters the England and the the United States.
  • 1825 : In Russia, after having abdicated the September 13rd, thus opening a period of successional uncertainty, Alexandre Ier dies suddenly in Taganrog on February 1st. Nicolas Ier goes up on the throne only this day December 24th, the day before revolt decabrist.
  • 1865 : Foundation of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
  • 1866: The the Schleswig-Holstein is attached to the Prussia.
  • 1871 : Cairo, to inaugurate the Opera of Cairo, Ismaël Pasha, khedive of Egypt, order a work with Made green: Helped.
  • 1881 : Ngaliema De Swata sign the “treaty of the friendship” with Henry Morton Stanley, granting to him a right of establishment in the west of what will become Léopoldville finally Kinshasa.
  • 1896 : Anatole France, writer between with the French Academy
  • 1906: Since Brant Rock'n'roll , with the Massachusetts, the Canadian Reginald Aubrey Fessenden makes a success of the first radio operator transmission combining the voice and the music.
  • 1914 :
  • 1924 : The Republic is proclaimed in Albania
  • 1937: The army Japan ease enters to Hang-Tchéou.
  • 1941 : the Free French Army (FFL), opposed to the mode in title pro-Nazi, take the islands of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon.
  • 1942 :
  • 1951 :
    • a first opera made up for television is diffused by the night NBC, Amahl and Visitors ( Amahl and the Night Visitors ), of Gian Carlo Menotti.
    • the Libya becomes an independent federation.
  • 1970 : to Leningrad, two Russians who had tried to hijack a plane are condemned to death.
  • 1979 : The first launching of the European rocket ARIANE. The 1st commercial flight will take place later 4 years.
  • 1986 : After those of Shanghai, students of Beijing more claim communist dictatorship democracy.
  • 1988 : with Ottawa, the law of free trade with the the United States is adopted.
  • 1989 : with Panama, the dictator and trafficker Manual Noriega, continued by American justice, takes refuge with nonciature of the the Vatican.
  • 1990 : Loading with Toulon of 1st and 2nd squadrons of the Regiment of infantry-tanks of navy (RICM), first elements of the French Army leaving for Yambu, in Saudi Arabia, within the framework of the preparations of the War of the Gulf.
  • 1994 : with Algiers, four islamist takes as an hostage the flight Vol AF 8969.
  • 1997 : The terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos, is condemned to the life imprisonment with Paris.
  • 1999 :
  • 2000 : Attacks against Christian churches, in Indonesia, make a score of deaths.
  • 2006 : The Prime Minister Ethiopia N Meles Zenawi announced that its country had been in Guerre against the islamist Somalia NS officializing the intervention already in progress for several weeks.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Catholic saints of the day

  • Holy Charbel Makhlouf, monk and hermit Lebanon board.

See too

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