| 141511 | December 15 | Holiday and observance | Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty (Russia) |
| 141512 | December 15 | Holiday and observance | Zamenhof Day (International Esperanto Community) |
| 141513 | December 16 | Event | 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. |
| 141514 | December 16 | Event | 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China. |
| 141515 | December 16 | Event | 1431 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. |
| 141516 | December 16 | Event | 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. |
| 141517 | December 16 | Event | 1575 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 strikes Valdivia, Chile. |
| 141518 | December 16 | Event | 1598 – Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang – The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory. |
| 141519 | December 16 | Event | 1653 – English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. |
| 141520 | December 16 | Event | 1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. |
| 141521 | December 16 | Event | 1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. |
| 141522 | December 16 | Event | 1761 – Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg. |
| 141523 | December 16 | Event | 1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. |
| 141524 | December 16 | Event | 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. |
| 141525 | December 16 | Event | 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. |
| 141526 | December 16 | Event | 1838 – Great Trek: Battle of Blood River – Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
| 141527 | December 16 | Event | 1850 – The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. |
| 141528 | December 16 | Event | 1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. |
| 141529 | December 16 | Event | 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville – Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee. |
| 141530 | December 16 | Event | 1903 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to the guests. |
| 141531 | December 16 | Event | 1907 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. |
| 141532 | December 16 | Event | 1912 – First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli. |
| 141533 | December 16 | Event | 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough. |
| 141534 | December 16 | Event | 1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
| 141535 | December 16 | Event | 1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. |
| 141536 | December 16 | Event | 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. |
| 141537 | December 16 | Event | 1927 – Donald Bradman makes his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales against South Australia. Batting at No. 7, he scores a century. |
| 141538 | December 16 | Event | 1930 – Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana. |
| 141539 | December 16 | Event | 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay neither is ever seen again. |
| 141540 | December 16 | Event | 1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother. |