Historical Events
NY's First Daily Newspaper
Dec 9 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, the "American Minerva"
Jefferson Warns of Slave Revolts
Dec 23 Thomas Jefferson warns of slave revolts in the West Indies
- Dec 26 Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians.
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 11 Pietro Antonio Coppola, Italian composer, born in Castrogiovanni, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1877)
- Dec 15 Henry Charles Carey, American economist (Principles of Poli Economy), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1879)
- Dec 26 Franz Hünten, German pianist and composer, born in Koblenz, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1819)
Famous Weddings
- Dec 26 The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
Famous Deaths
- Dec 6 Marie Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV, beheaded at 50
- Dec 7 Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
- Dec 9 Yolande de Polastron, Duchess de Polignac, French aristocrat, dies at 44
- Dec 13 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, German literary translator, dies at 63
- Dec 20 Joseph Legros, French singer and composer who was the most prominent haute-contres (operatic tenor) of his generation, dies at 54
- Dec 23 Abbé Prévost, French author and novelist (Manon Lescaut), dies at 66
- Dec 23 Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (Antonio e Cleopatra), dies at 74
- Dec 28 Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75
