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NAMvEx1492Dec05Christopher Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti), at Mole Saint Nicolas
NAMvEx   Christopher Columbus’ ship Santa Maria lands at Santo Domingo
EUMvRl1496Dec05Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel of Portugal
ITScRn1590Dec05Niccolò Sfondrati chosen as Pope Gregory XIV
ITMeMu1602Dec05Giulio Caccini’s Euridice premieres in Florence
EUCfSy1757Dec05Battle of Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians
GBScCm1766Dec05London auctioneers Christie’s hold their first sale
NAScEd1776Dec05First U.S. fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (at William and Mary College), forms
EUScBd1791Dec05Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies at 35 in his home in Prague, after an extended illness
NAScGv1792Dec05George Washington re-elected U.S. president
??????1798Dec05Government troops occupy Hasselt
NAScGv1804Dec05Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. president/George Clinton2 vice-president
??????1813Dec05Lubeck surrenders to allied armies
FRMeMu1830Dec05Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique premieres in Paris
NAScGv1831Dec05Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives
NAScGv1832Dec05Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US
FRMeMu1837Dec05Hector Berlioz’s Requiem premieres
NA????   Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
EUSeIv1846Dec05Christian Friedrich Schonbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
NAMvEp1848Dec05President James K. Polk triggers Gold Rush of ’49, confirms California gold discovery
NASeIv1854Dec05Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair
NAMeTh1859Dec05Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon premieres in New York City



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