About December 26
December 26, 2025 is the 360th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 5 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 53 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 26
- 1481 –Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
- 1613 –Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
- 1792 –The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris, France.
- 1799 –Four thousand people attend George Washington’s funeral where Henry Lee declares him as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
- 1811 –A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
- 1825 –Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
- 1860 –The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
- 1870 –The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
- 1883 –The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
- 1919 –Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
- 1925 –Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 1945 –CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
- 1948 –Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
- 1996 –Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
- 1997 –The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
- 1999 –The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
- 2003 –A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
- 2004 –Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
- 2006 –A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, killing two people and causing severe communication disruptions in southeast Asia.
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