Historical Events
Rossini Moves to Bolongna
Dec 28 Italian opera composer Gioachino Rossini moves to Bologna, Papal States
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 2 Rufus Barringer, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Cabarrus County, North Carolina (d. 1895)
- Dec 8 Josip Runjanin, Croatian Serb composer (Croatian National Anthem) and soldier, born in Vinkovci (d. 1878)
- Dec 10 Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny), born in Nemyriv, Russian Empire (d. 1877)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Dec 12 French novelist (Madame Bovary), born in Rouen, France
- Dec 15 Auguste Vaucorbeil, French composer, born in Rouen, France (d. 1884)
- Dec 17 Frederick West Lander, American poet and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1862)
- Dec 19 Mary Ashton Livermore, American social reformer and women's suffrage leader (President of American Woman Suffrage Association 1878-95), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1905)
- Dec 22 Giovanni Bottesini, Italian Romantic composer, conductor and a double bass virtuoso, born in Crema, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (d. 1889)
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Dec 25 American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross, born in North Oxford, Massachusetts
- Dec 27 Jane Wilde, Irish poet, nationalist and mother of Oscar Wilde, born in Wexford (d. 1896)
Famous Deaths
- Dec 12 Phoebe Hessel, English woman who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British Army, probably to be with her lover, Samuel Golding, dies at 108
- Dec 20 Gian Francesco Fortunati, Italian opera composer and maestro di cappella of Parma, dies at 75
- Dec 29 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau, Dutch general, dies at 61
- Dec 30 Angelo Maria Benincori, Italian composer, dies at 42
