Historical Events
- Dec 2 First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
James Monroe
Dec 4 James Monroe is elected to become the 5th President of the United States, defeating Rufus King of the Federalist Party
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 6 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Rutherford County, Tennessee (d. 1895)
- Dec 8 August Belmont, Prussian-American financier and diplomat (U.S. Minister to the Netherlands 1853-57), born in Alzey, Hesse, Germany (d. 1890)
- Dec 13 Clement Claiborne Clay, American politician (U.S. Senator from Alabama), born in Huntsville, Alabama (d. 1882)
Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)
Dec 13 German inventor (siemens electrical conductance unit) and industrialist (Siemens corporation), born in Lenthe, German Confederation
Famous Weddings
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dec 30 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft
Famous Deaths
- Dec 15 Charles Stanhope, 3rd earl Stanhope, English radical politician and scientist, dies at 63
- Dec 15 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, Bohemian aristocrat and composer, dies at 44
- Dec 16 Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomasselli], Italian dancer, ballet master (Royal Danish Ballet, 1775-1816), and choreographer (Amors og Balletmesterens Luner (The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master)), dies at 73
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