Historical Events
- Dec 5 Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
Famous Deaths
- Dec 6 Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
- Dec 8 Charles Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Derwentwater, British politician, dies at 53
- Dec 10 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), dies at 75