Historical Events
- Dec 2 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
- Dec 9 Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
- Dec 26 France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
- Dec 26 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
- Dec 31 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
Famous Birthdays
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-1871)
Dec 7 French watchmaker and illusionist considered the father of modern magic, born in Blois, France
- Dec 10 Johannes Elias Feisser, Dutch theologist and founder of 1st Dutch baptist church, born in Winsum, Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1865)
- Dec 10 Joseph Škoda, Bohemian physician, born in Pilsen, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1881)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
Dec 10 American abolitionist, and publisher ("The Liberator"), born in Newburyport, Massachusetts
- Dec 12 Henry Wells, American businessman and founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co), born in Thetford, Vermont (d. 1878)
- Dec 21 Thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
- Dec 22 John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist, born in Sheffield, United Kingdom (d. 1893)
Joseph Smith (1805-1844)
Dec 23 American founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Sharon, Vermont
Famous Deaths
- Dec 10 Friedrich Franz Hůrka, Bohemian operatic tenor, conductor, and composer, dies at 43
- Dec 23 Francis Masson, Scottish botanist (1st plant hunter for Kew Gardens, in South Africa), dies at 64
- Dec 23 Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
- Dec 27 Belle van Zuylen, Dutch-Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65
