| 147091 | December 30 | Death | 2014 – Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1936) |
| 147092 | December 30 | Death | 2014 – Luise Rainer, German-English actress (b. 1910) |
| 147093 | December 30 | Death | 2014 – B. G. Verghese, Indian journalist (b. 1927) |
| 147094 | December 30 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Anysia of SalonikaEgwin of EveshamLiberius of RavennaPope Felix IRalph of VaucellesRoger of CannaeFrances Joseph-Gaudet (Episcopal Church (USA))December 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
| 147095 | December 30 | Holiday and observance | Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province (Slovakia) |
| 147096 | December 30 | Holiday and observance | Freedom Day (Church of Scientology) |
| 147097 | December 30 | Holiday and observance | Rizal Day (Philippines) |
| 147098 | December 30 | Holiday and observance | The sixth of the Twelve Days of Christmas. (Western Christianity) |
| 147099 | December 31 | Event | 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul. |
| 147100 | December 31 | Event | 535 – Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year. |
| 147101 | December 31 | Event | 1225 – The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần dynasty. |
| 147102 | December 31 | Event | 1229 – James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca. |
| 147103 | December 31 | Event | 1501 – The First Battle of Cannanore commences. |
| 147104 | December 31 | Event | 1600 – The British East India Company is chartered. |
| 147105 | December 31 | Event | 1660 – James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France. |
| 147106 | December 31 | Event | 1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope. |
| 147107 | December 31 | Event | 1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. |
| 147108 | December 31 | Event | 1757 – Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia. |
| 147109 | December 31 | Event | 1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness. |
| 147110 | December 31 | Event | 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery. |
| 147111 | December 31 | Event | 1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time. |
| 147112 | December 31 | Event | 1796 – The incorporation of Baltimore as a city. |
| 147113 | December 31 | Event | 1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City. |
| 147114 | December 31 | Event | 1853 – A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England. |
| 147115 | December 31 | Event | 1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada. |
| 147116 | December 31 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two. |
| 147117 | December 31 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. |
| 147118 | December 31 | Event | 1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. |
| 147119 | December 31 | Event | 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. |
| 147120 | December 31 | Event | 1906 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906. |