Historical Events
- Dec 15 King Philip's War: After peace talk fail, Narraganset warriors attack the Jireh Bull Blockhouse, in South Kingston, Rhode Island, killing at least 15 colonists
- Dec 19 King Philip's War: Combined colonial millitias stake massive attack against the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts, totally destroying the settlement and killing or displacing hundreds of non-combatant women and children
Famous Deaths
- Dec 5 John Lightfoot, English theologist and scholar (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)
Dec 15 Dutch painter (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer), dies at 43
- Dec 23 Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
