Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Alp Arslan ( ālp arslān ; ālb ārslān ; 1029 – 15 December 1072 ) was the third sultan of the Seljuq dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty.

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44, No. 4 ( December, 1972 ), pp. 468 – 479 in JSTOR

" Histoire et Science Sociale: La Longue Durée " ( 1958 ) Annales E. S. C., 13: 4 October – December 1958, 725 – 753

* Clay, Jenny Strauss, " Immortal and ageless forever ", The Classical Journal 77. 2 ( December 1981: pp. 112 – 117 ).

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Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910 ), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.

Alexios V Doukas, surnamed Mourtzouphlos (, d. December 1205, Constantinople ) was Byzantine Emperor ( 5 February – 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

Transmission, Gregory Chaitin also presents this theorem in J. ACM – Chaitin's paper was submitted October 1966 and revised in December 1968, and cites both Solomonoff's and Kolmogorov's papers.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

Nicolò Amati ( December 3, 1596 – April 12, 1684 ) was the son of Girolamo Amati.

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

Ghazi Mohammad Jan Khan Wardak staged an uprising and attacked British forces near Kabul in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879, but his defeat there resulted in the collapse of this rebellion.

In 1522 he participated in the Siege of Rhodes against the Knights of St. John, which ended with the island's surrender to the Ottomans on 25 December 1522 and the permanent departure of the Knights from Rhodes on 1 January 1523 ( the Knights relocated first ( briefly ) to Sicily and later ( permanently ) to Malta ).

* December 27 – Siege of Bilbao-Third Carlist War -( 27 December 1873-2 May 1874 )- Campaigning in Navarre, Pretender Don Carlos VII and General Joaquín Elío besiege Bilbao, held by General Ignacio del Castillo and 1, 200 men.

* December 9 – The fourth battle of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 1878 is fought, concluding the Siege of Plevna.

* December 4 – The Siege of Osaka begins.

* December 24 – The County of Edessa falls to Zengi of Mosul ( see Siege of Edessa ).

* December 30 – Siege of St. Augustine lifted.

A Revolutionary Army laid siege to the British positions for four months ( see the Siege of Toulon ), and finally, thanks to the enterprise of the young commander of artillery, Napoleon Bonaparte, defeated the British and drove them out in December 1793.

** The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood ( 1 December 2009 )

Photograph showing the aftermath of the Siege of Knoxville, December 1863

' Sepoys and the Siege of Kut-al-Amara, December 1915-April 1961 ', War in History, 11 ( 3 ): pp. 307 – 326.

He surrendered Portsmouth to the parliament in September 1642 after the Siege of Portsmouth and went to the Netherlands to recruit for the Royalist army, returning to England in December.

Having failed to conquer the USSR with Operation Barbarossa ( June – December 1941 ), the Siege of Leningrad ( September 1941 – January 1944 ), Operation Nordlicht (" Northern Light ", August – October 1942 ), and the Battle of Stalingrad ( July 1942 – February 1943 ), Nazi Germany found itself at a logistical disadvantage.

The Siege of Antioch lasted many months ; in December, Robert and Bohemund briefly left the army to raid the surrounding territory for food, and on December 30 they defeated an army sent to relieve Antioch, led by Dukak of Damascus.

The supplies captured by Patriots in December of 1774 were later used by New Hampshire's forces against the British military, including in the Siege of Boston.

This decision resulted in a string of disasters — the capitulation to the Austrians on 6 September 1746, the great popular insurrection of December 1746, and the Siege of Genoa in 1747 ( though Genoa retained Finale in the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ).

Ghazi Mohammad Jan Khan Wardak staged an uprising and attacked British forces near Kabul in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879.

The Balcombe Street Siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and the Metropolitan Police Service of London, England lasting from 6 December to 12 December 1975.

The lion symbolizes the heroic French resistance during the Siege of Belfort, a 103-day Prussian assault ( from December 1870 to February 1871 ).

Kiyomasa's most famous battle is the Siege of Ulsan ( 蔚山城の戦い ) on December 22, 1593.