Template:On this day/25 Dizember

25 December: Christenmas

  • 336 – First documentary sign o Christenmas celebration in Roum.
  • 800 – The coronation o Charlemagne as Haly Roman Emperor, in Roum.
  • 1758 – Halley's Comet is sichtit bi Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirmin Edmund Halley's prediction o its passage. This wis the first passage o a comet predictit aheid o time.
  • 1776 – George Washington an the Continental Airmy cross the Delaware River (pentin picturt) at nicht tae attack Hessian forces servin Great Breetain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
  • 1950 – The Stane o Scuin, tradeetional coronation stane o Breetish monarchs, is taken frae Wastmeenster Aibey bi Scots naitionalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on 11 Apryle 1951.

Humphrey Bogart (b. 1899) · Anwar Sadat (b. 1918) · Charlie Chaplin (d. 1977)