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December1812

Historical Events in December 1812

James Madison Re-elected

Dec 2 James Madison re-elected President of the US, Elbridge Gerry Vice-President

4th US President and Founding Father James Madison

Dec 4 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, patents a horse-drawn mower
Dec 11 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)

Napoleon Ends Invasion of Russia

Dec 14 The French invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, officially ends with the French having lost as many as 530,000 people

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

"Grimm's Fairy Tales"

Dec 20 "Grimm's Fairy Tales" or "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published

Illustration from Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book (1889)

Dec 29 The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle

Historical Figures