* December 13 – Wold Newton meteorite: A meteorite falls at Wold Newton, a hamlet in Yorkshire in England.

The addition of the name " Cross " to the area's name originates from the Eleanor cross erected in 1291 – 94 by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile, and placed between the former hamlet of Charing and the entrance to the Royal Mews of the Palace of Whitehall ( today the top of Whitehall on the south side of Trafalgar Square ).

In the Aceramic Neolithic ( without pottery ), 7000 – 6000, a hamlet of 25-50 persons existed at the location of the Central Court.

This process would be extended by Nash in planning groups of buildings, the first example being Blaise Hamlet ( 1810 – 1811 ), here a group of nine asymmetrical cottages were laid out around a village green, Nikolaus Pevsner described the hamlet as ' the ne plus ultra of the Picturesque movement '.

* Berne – The largest hamlet in the Town, it is located at the intersection of New York State Route 443 and New York State Route 156.

* East Berne – A hamlet east of Berne village on New York State Route 443.

* Reidsville – A hamlet in the southeast part of the town.

* South Berne – A hamlet near the south town line.

* West Berne – A hamlet near the west town line and west of Berne village on New York State Route 443.

* East Township – A hamlet in the northeast part of the town on Route 146.

* Knox ( formerly " Knoxville ") – The hamlet of Knox is in the south part of the town, located at the junction of State Route 156 ( Berne-Altamont Road ) and County Road 252 ( Knox Cave Road ).

* West Berne – A hamlet at the town line in the southwest part of the town.

* West Township – A hamlet in the northwest part of the town on Route 146.

* Clarksville – A hamlet in the southwest part of the town on Route 443.

* Feura Bush – A hamlet in the southeast part of the town, south of Unionville.

* New Salem – A hamlet west of New Scotland village.

* Slingerlands – Part of this hamlet is in the Town of New Scotland that is south of Voorheesville.

* Onesquethaw – A hamlet south of Clarksville.

* Unionville – A hamlet by the east town line.

* Ford Corners – A location north of Westerlo hamlet.

* Lambs Corner – A hamlet in the southwest part of the town.

* Newry – A hamlet at the south town line.

* South Westerlo – A hamlet near the south town line.

* Westerlo – The hamlet of Westerlo is near the center of the town.

* 1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.

* 2009 – A 6. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L ' Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

* 1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5. 6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.

* 2010 – A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

* 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.

* 1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

* 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India

* 1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.

* 1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25, 000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

* 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution " Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH " to the constitutive congress of KPH ( Croatian Communist Party ) in woods near Samobor.

* 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

* 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.

* 2012 – 3 gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.

* 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

* 2008 – A commercial bus carrying Vietnamese Catholics crashed off a bridge of U. S. 75 near Sherman, Texas killing 17.

* 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

* 1999 – The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

* 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 on board.