Historical Events
Napoleon Bonaparte
Dec 2 General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII
Thomas Jefferson Re-elected
Dec 5 Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President, and George Clinton elected Vice-President
Humboldt's Magnetic Field Discovery
Dec 7 Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute
Famous Birthdays
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Dec 21 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1868, 1874-80) and writer, born in London
- Dec 23 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic and writer (Informal Talk), born in Boulogne, France (d. 1869)
Famous Deaths
- Dec 19 Mary Bright, British PM Rockingham, dies
