29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee
2025/12/29
More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee ...
28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier
2025/12/28
The Ordonnance de Montpellier required printers and booksellers to deposit a copy of every book published in the kingdom with the royal ...
27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’
2025/12/27
The Soviet dekulakisation campaign began when Joseph Stalin announced the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a ...
26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet
2025/12/26
As it became obvious that the USSR was falling apart, on 25 December Gorbachev resigned as President and the Soviet Union was formally dissolved the next ...
25th December 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III during Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica
2025/12/25
The coronation of Charlemagne established the precedent for what later became known as the Holy Roman Empire and reinforced the idea of a Christian emperor as protector of the ...

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