139321 | December 9 | Death | 2013 – Kees Brusse, Dutch actor and director (b. 1925) |
139322 | December 9 | Death | 2013 – Shane del Rosario, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1983) |
139323 | December 9 | Death | 2013 – John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909) |
139324 | December 9 | Death | 2013 – Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930) |
139325 | December 9 | Death | 2013 – Eleanor Parker, American actress and singer (b. 1922) |
139326 | December 9 | Death | 2013 – John Wilbur, American football player (b. 1943) |
139327 | December 9 | Death | 2014 – Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933) |
139328 | December 9 | Death | 2014 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (b. 1924) |
139329 | December 9 | Death | 2014 – Jorge María Mejía, Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923) |
139330 | December 9 | Death | 2014 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (b. 1937) |
139331 | December 9 | Death | 2014 – Blagoje Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947) |
139332 | December 9 | Death | 2014 – Jože Toporišič, Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926) |
139333 | December 9 | Holiday and observance | Anna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland) |
139334 | December 9 | Holiday and observance | Christian Feast Day:Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Orthodox Church)Juan DiegoLeocadiaNectarius of AuvergnePeter FourierDecember 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
139335 | December 9 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day, celebrate the independence of Tanganyika from Britain in 1961. (Tanzania) |
139336 | December 9 | Holiday and observance | International Anti-Corruption Day (International) |
139337 | December 9 | Holiday and observance | National Heroes Day, formerly V.C. Bird Day. (Antigua and Barbuda) |
139338 | December 9 | Holiday and observance | Yuri's Day in the Autumn (Russian Orthodox Church) |
139339 | December 10 | Event | 1041 – The son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. |
139340 | December 10 | Event | 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet" - King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Eric, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. |
139341 | December 10 | Event | 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. |
139342 | December 10 | Event | 1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule. |
139343 | December 10 | Event | 1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. |
139344 | December 10 | Event | 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. |
139345 | December 10 | Event | 1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter |
139346 | December 10 | Event | 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley. |
139347 | December 10 | Event | 1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. |
139348 | December 10 | Event | 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. |
139349 | December 10 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy. |
139350 | December 10 | Event | 1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance. |