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==Events== * 333 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of ''Caesar''. * 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome. * 350 – Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension. * 496 – Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius. * 597 – Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons. * 800 – The Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. * 1000 – The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. * 1025 – Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as king of Poland. *1066 – William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. *1076 – Coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland. *1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity. *1130 – Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first king of Sicily. *1261 – John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos. *1492 – Carrack ''Santa María'' captained by Christopher Columbus runs onto reefs off Haiti due to a proper watch not being kept. Local natives help to save food, armory and ammunition but not the ship. *1553 – Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. *1559 – Pope Pius IV is elected. *1643 – Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean found and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company vessel, the ''Royal Mary''. *1776 – George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day. *1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor. *1814 – Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. *1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance. *1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening. *1837 – Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. *1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. *1914 – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas. *1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa. *1927 – The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded. *1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. *1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet * 1941 – World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. * 1941 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. *1946 – The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet F-1 nuclear reactor. *1947 – The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect. *1950 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. *1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. *1963 – Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. *1965 – The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz *1968 – Apollo program: ''Apollo 8'' performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. * 1968 – Kilvenmani massacre, 44 Dalits (untouchables) burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers. *1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. * 1974 – Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. *1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat. *1989 – Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. *1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. *2000 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. *2003 – The ill-fated ''Beagle 2'' probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing. *2004 – Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. *2009 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253 *2012 – An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「December 25」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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