Historical Events
- Dec 19 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
Famous Birthdays
Rowland Hill (1795-1879)
Dec 3 English inventor who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840), born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Dec 4 Scottish essayist and historian (The French Revolution), born in Ecclefechan, Scotland
- Dec 8 Jacques-François Gallay, French horn player and composer, born in Perpignan, France (d. 1864)
- Dec 8 Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (Hansen hypothesis), born in Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark (d. 1874)
Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886)
Dec 21 German historian who founded the modern concept of source-based history, born in Wiehe, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
