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1601–1900. 1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola. 1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
t. e. The Eighteenth Amendment ( Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919.
Date. 18 December. Next time. 18 December 2024. ( 2024-12-18) Frequency. Annually. Qatar National Day ( Arabic: اليوم الوطني لقطر, romanized : Al-Yawm al-Waṭani li-Qaṭar) is a national commemoration of Qatar 's unification in 1878. It is celebrated annually on 18 December.
The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.
This feast can fall between 11 and 17 December. This feast includes the ancestors of Mary, mother of Jesus and various prophets. A customary day for the celebration of fatherhood in Catholic Europe is known to date back to at least 1508.
December. December 7 – Marshal Ney is executed in Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg. December 23 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published, anonymously in London, dated 1816. December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance, in ...
December 14 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia. December 20 – The first volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales is published in Germany. December 29 – War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Java, off the coast of Brazil.
October 28 – American Civil War. Second Battle of Fair Oaks: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia. Second Battle of Newtonia: Union forces defeat the remnants of Price's Missouri Expedition.
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which began in March.
1831 ( MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1831st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 831st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1830s decade.