Historical Events
- Dec 6 Laurens Pieter van de Speigel is appointed Dutch pension advisor
Constitution of the United States
Dec 7 Delaware is the 1st state to ratify the US constitution
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 1 Pavel Ivanovich Dolgorukov, Russian composer, born in Moscow (d. 1845)
- Dec 9 John Dobson, English architect, born in High Chirton, North Shields, England (d. 1865)
- Dec 10 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American pioneer of educating the deaf, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1851)
- Dec 14 Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, born in Monza, Duchy of Milan (d. 1816)
- Dec 15 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor and Shakespearean critic, born in Enfield, Middlesex, England (d. 1877)
- Dec 16 Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
- Dec 28 Hermanus J. Abbring, Dutch engineer and writer on Curacao (d. 1874)
