Historical Events
Andrew Jackson
Dec 3 Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
VP Calhoun's Report
Dec 19 Report by US Vice President John C. Calhoun defending the rights of states to nullify federal laws is presented to the South Carolina legislature but it takes no action
- Dec 28 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 8 Clinton Bowen Fisk, American abolitionist, Brevet Major General (Union Army), helped establish 1st free public schools in the South, born in York, New York (d. 1890)
- Dec 8 Robert Bullock, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Greenville, North Carolina (d. 1905)
- Dec 16 John Beatty, American banker, statesman, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1914)
- Dec 23 Mathilde Wesendonck (née Luckemeyer), German writer, poet (Tagebuchblatter), and object of composer Richard Wagner's infatuation, born in Elberfeld, Rhenish Prussia (d. 1902)
- Dec 28 Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (pioneer in classifying mental health), born in Driesen, Prussia (d. 1899)
- Dec 30 Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1885)
Famous Deaths
- Dec 2 Simon Paap, Dutch dwarf (71 cm/28 inches tall) cabaret artist, dies at 39
Robert Jenkinson (1770-1828)
Dec 4 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Tory: 1812-27), dies of a stroke at 58
- Dec 22 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US President Andrew Jackson, dies of heart failure
- Dec 22 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium), dies at 62
- Dec 30 Waldemar Thrane, Norwegian violinist, composer (Fjeldeventyret), and conductor, dies at 38
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