The December 25th is the 359e Jour of the Année (360e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 6 days before the end of the year.

Events

1st century

  •     1: traditional date of the birth of the Christ, with Bethlehem; the festival of Christmas constituted the beginning of the New Year's Day in certain parts of Europe; the Holy years catholic begin (since 1300) this day.

3rd century

  •    274: The shortly after its triumph, Aurélien inaugurates the Temple of the Sun . Built on the Champ de Mars, decorated with the brought back spoils of Palmyre, the temple is served by the college of the priests of the Sun, chosen among the senators. Honore by an annual festival at the time of the Solstice of winter (December 25th) and by plays every four years.

4th century

  • 354 : the Pope Libère (Libérius) founds the date of birth of Christ at December 25th, day when pagan Rome celebrates the birth of Mithra, " Ground Invinctus" (Unconquered God), Persian god of the light in the old Iranian religion.

  • 390 : Roman Empire, the day of Christmas, the bishop of Milan, Ambroise, constrained Théodose to be subjected to public penitence like a simple Christian.

5th century

  •    438: Roman Empire, the Sénat of Rome records officially the code of laws written by a commission of lawyers named by the emperor Théodose II in 429. This code is the first legal and official collection laws promulgated by the emperors since 312.

  •    496: Baptism of Clovis, king of the Frank .

6th century

  •    537: Inauguration of the Holy-Sophie basilica by the emperor Justinien in Constantinople. The " Large Église" is placed under the term of divine Wisdom (Christ).

  •    597: Baptism of Éthelbert, king of Kent, in Canterbury.

7th century

  •    604: Battle of Étampes, Clotaire II overcome by Thierry.

8th century

  •    800: Crowning of Charlemagne, emperor of Occident : Charlemagne, king of the Francs, is crowned emperor of Occident in the Basilique Saint-Pierre of Rome, by the Pope Leon III, then acclaimed by crowd. The Pope kneels in front of the new emperor.

    • According to its biographer Eginhard, Charlemagne leaves furious this ceremony: by initially crowning Charlemagne, before the acclamations, Leon III affirms that all to be able comes from God, by his intermediary, and not of the people.
    • Charles, oldest son of Charlemagne, is crowned the same king day of Neustrie.
    • Charlemagne remains with Rome until Easter 801, clearly affirming its sovereignty on the Eternal City.

9th century

  •    820: Constantinople (the night of Christmas), Leon V is assassinated in the church of Holy-Sophie by her favorite Michel II, the Stammerer, who founds the Phrygian dynasty.

  •    854: The clerks and the noble ones of the Norfolk assembled with Attleborough, elect for king of East Anglia Edmond (14 years), nephew of Athelstan, eighth king d' Est-Anglie, left in Holy Land to finish there its days in the prayer and penitence.

  •    856: Crowning, in the church of Bore-holes (Suffolk), of Edmond (16 years), new king of East Anglia, which succeeded in 854 his/her uncle Athelstan, left in Holy Land.

  •    875: Charles the Bald person is crowned emperor from Occident in Rome by the pope Jean VIII.

10th century

11th century

  • 1025 : Crowning of Mieszko II Lambert of Poland.

  • 1076 : Crowning of Boleslas II the Generous, king of Poland.

12th century

  • 1120 : Shipwreck with Barfleur of the White-Nave with on its board large the noble Norman ones and the heir to the throne of England, Guillaume Adelin. For some this shipwreck took place on November 25th, 1120?. (this November 25th is checked: to follow this bond

  • 1169 : Constancy of Brittany, heiress of the duke of Brittany, Conan IV Small the, is forced to marry Geoffroy II, third wire of the king d' Angleterre Henri II Plantagenêt, 9 years old. The Brittany passes thus under the cut of the England.

16th century

  • 1524 : The pope Clément VII opens solemnly the ninth Jubilé (Holy year).

  • 1541 : A terrible natural phenomenon - one does not know with precision if it were of an earthquake or a tidal wave, or perhaps two compounds - devastates the small island of Cubagua - one of the two islands attached to the island of Margarita, near to the coast to what will become the Venezuela - shaving many houses, destroying the city incipient from Nueva Cádiz in its totality, water involving the debris towards the sea.

  • 1559 : Jean Ange of Médicis is elected Pape under the name of Pie IV

  • 1597 : With the Native Brazil, foundation of the town of .

17th century

  • 1688 : The king of England Jacques II takes refuge in France.

18th century

  • 1705 : The Halley's Comet is exact with his first go, the Christmas Day, fixed by the calculation of the British Astronome Edmund Halley, when he discovered it in 1705.

  • 1745 : Dresden: The peace signed with Charles VII having given him the Silesia, Frederic II hastens with dead of this one to recognize as emperor of Germany François of Lorraine.

  • 1757 : The Prussians beat the French with Leuthen.

  • 1758 : The Christmas Day, as envisaged by the British Astronomer Edmund Halley, the Comet which bears its name made its appearance.

  • 1800 : To save its capital, the Austria sign the armistice of Steyr and grants a separate peace.

19th century

  • 1809 : Illyrie. The provinces illyriennes are organized by Napoleon.

  • 1825 : Alexandre Ier abdicates the September 13rd to die on February 1st. His/her Constantin brother leaves the throne to Nicolas, which accepts it the December 24th. The 25, the regiment of Moscow refuses to lend oath to the new tsar, and it is the beginning of the insurrection.

20th century

  • 1936 : " lords of guerre" Chinese in rebellion releases the general Tchang Kaï-chek, whom they had removed 12 days earlier.

  • 1953 : First Clerc's Office of Kidney succeeded.

  • 1963 : at Cyprus, a common command is set up to put an end to the confrontations between Greeks and Turks.

  • 1969: Six fast patrol boats, ordered by Israel but placed under Embargo by the French government, succeed in leaving Cherbourg clandestinely to gain Haïfa.

  • 1986 :

    • an Iraqi plane, diverted by " pirates of the air" with 107 people on board, explodes and takes fire while trying to be posed in catastrophe on a track of the desert of Saudi Arabia: 62 dead.
    • 2 Americans make a success of the 1st round the world tour in the plane without stopover (11 days).

  • 1991 : Mikhail Gorbatchev resigns of his post of “president” of the Soviet Union. The red flag is descended from the Kremlin.

  • 1999 :

    • the tablecloths of fuel of the tanker Erika touch the Finistere and the Morbihan.
    • in India, of the hijackers hijacks a plane towards the Afghanistan. They require India the release of Moslem separatists of the Cachemire.

21e century

  • 2003 :

    • the probe Mars Express was put into orbit around planet.
    • an earthquake with Bam, in Iran, makes 50.000 dead.
    • Eleven days after a first assassination attempt, the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf escapes a new car bomb attack, which makes 14 dead, in the same town of Rawalpindi, close to Islamabad.

  • 2006 : four condemned to dead Japanese was carried out by hanging, thus raising a Moratoire de facto on the capital punishment which had been in force for 15 month with the Japan.

Births

According to various traditions:

In the History:

Death

Celebrations

  • Christmas Day.
  • For the followers of Mithriacisme or Mithraïsme, in the Roman empire, celebration of the birth of the solar god Mithra, and celebrates most important of this worship.
  • the date of the December 25th coincides with that of the pagan festivals older, related to the Winter solstice: this day was in the beginning a religious festival pagan Celtic (festival of the maternity).
  • Starting from 274 in the Calendar Julien, the Roman Emperor Aurélien founds with the winter solstice the celebration of Sol Invictus (unconquered sun), evolution towards a solar monotheism.
  • For the Christians, celebrates Christmas which celebrates the birthday of the birth of Jesus. This date was fixed in the year 354 by the Liberus pope who chooses also the winter solstice in the place of other evoked dates: January 6th, March 28th, April 19th, and May 29th.
  • Following the importance of Christmas for the Christianity, this day is non-working in the majority of the countries of Christian tradition: country of Europe, Mexico, Canada, etc

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

See too

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