Historical Events
- Dec 25 Jupiter Hammon, an African American slave, composes poetry broadside "An Evening Thought" (1st poetry published by an African American 1761)
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 2 John Breckinridge, American lawyer (5th United States Attorney General) and politician (U.S. Senator from Kentucky), born in Augusta County, Virginia (d. 1806)
- Dec 2 Joseph Graetz, German organist, composer, and music educator, born in Vohburg on the Danube, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1826)
- Dec 18 Knud Lyne Rahbek, Danish literary figure (Om sku skuespillerkunsten) (d. 1830)
Famous Deaths
- Dec 14 Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies at 56
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