Historical Events
Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction
Dec 6 Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction with the Diet of Hungary recognizes the King's daughters as successors
Famous Birthdays
Famous Deaths
- Dec 1 Susanna Centlivre, English actress known as "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century", dies at 66 (approximately)
- Dec 2 Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of France (1715-23), dies at 49
- Dec 7 Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
- Dec 20 Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist, dies at 71
- Dec 22 Jacques Basnage, French historian and vicar (History of the Reformed Churches), dies at 70
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