Anniversaries

3rd December 1919 (104 Years)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, known worldwide as a leading painter in the impressionist style, died.

3rd December 1956 (67 Years)

Alexander Rodchenko, Russian artist, one of the founders of constructivism, dies.

4th December 1892 (131 Years)

Generalissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Spanish dictator who ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975, was born.

4th December 1914 (109 Years)

Rudolf Hausner, an Austrian painter, draughtsman, print maker and sculptor, was born. Hausner has been described as the first psychoanalytical painter.

5th December 1443 (580 Years)

Pope Julius II, "The Warrior Pope", great patron for the arts (he commissioned the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica andMichelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel) was born.

5th December 1766 (257 Years)

In London, James Christie held his first sale.

5th December 1791 (232 Years)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer, died.

5th December 1830 (193 Years)

Christina Rossetti, one of the best-loved English poets, was born.

5th December 1839 (184 Years)

George Armstrong Custer, the American cavalry officer killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, was born.

5th December 1926 (97 Years)

Claude Monet, French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionism movement, dies.

5th December 1986 (37 Years)

Durham Cathedral is inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO.

5th December 2013 (10 Years)

Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate, died.

5th December 2013 (10 Years)

Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate, died.

6th December 1768 (255 Years)

The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

6th December 1917 (106 Years)

Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire.

6th December 1941 (82 Years)

WWII: Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbour.

6th December 1988 (35 Years)

Roy Orbison, singer of Pretty Woman, dies of heart attack at 52.

7th December 1817 (206 Years)

Vice admiral William Bligh, officer of the British Royal Navy and Capitan of the Bounty, died.

7th December 1941 (82 Years)

The Japanese forces attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack led to the United States' entry into WWII.

7th December 1941 (82 Years)

A second and less notorious surprise attack occurred the same day as Pearl Harbor's: the Japanese bombed Manila and the Philippines.

8th December 1793 (230 Years)

Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France, died.

8th December 1815 (208 Years)

Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel, German artist, is born.

8th December 1864 (159 Years)

Camille Claudel, the French sculptor, was born.

8th December 1922 (101 Years)

Lucian Freud, the German-English artist, was born.

8th December 1978 (45 Years)

Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel, died.

8th December 1980 (43 Years)

John Lennon shot dead outside his New York apartment.

9th December 1717 (306 Years)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian and archaeologist, was born.

9th December 1899 (124 Years)

Jean de Brunhoff, writer and illustrator of the BarBar series, was born.

9th December 1916 (107 Years)

Kirk Douglas, American actor, producer, director, and author, was born.

10th December 1475 (548 Years)

Paolo Uccello, the Italian painter and mathematician, dies.

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