Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (; 1499 / 1500, Brescia – 13 December 1557, Venice ) was an Italian mathematician, engineer ( designing fortifications ), a surveyor ( of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense ) and a bookkeeper from the then-Republic of Venice ( now part of Italy ).

Pius IV ( 31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565 ), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565.

* December 13 – Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician ( b. 1499 )

* December 9 – Pope Pius IV ( b. 1499 )

* December 20 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther ( b. 1499 )

The book was printed by Aldus Manutius in Venice in December 1499.

* December 8-Piero Vettori, Italian humanist philologist and writer ( born 1499 )

In December 1499 the Venetians attacked Lepanto with the hope of regaining the territories which they lost with the Battle of Zonchio.

The price of the camera dropped over time to $ 1699 in May 2003, and $ 1499 in December 2003.

Among the significant events organised by Burchard as Ceremoniere were: the visit of Don Federigo de Aragon to Rome ( December 1493 to January 1494 ); the coronation of Alfonso II of Naples ( May 1494 ); the reception of Charles VIII of France in Rome ( November 1494 to February 1495 ); the Papal Embassy to the Emperor Maximilian in Milan ( July – November 1496 ); the Proclamation of the Jubilee ( Christmas 1499 ); the visit of Alexander VI to Piombino ( January – March 1502 ); and obsequies of Pope Alexander VI ( August 1503 ).

He was Chorąży of Kraków since 20 February 1484, starost of Belz since 28 December 1485, Stolnik of the Royal court since 27 May 1494, castellan of Lublin since 27 December 1497, voivode of Lublin Voivodeship before 28 May 1499, voivode of Sandomierz Voivodeship since 6 March 1501, voivode of Kraków Voivodeship and starost of Horodło since 1 September 1505.

In December 1498, he obtained, for reasons of state, the annulment of the marriage of the king to Jeanne de Valois ; the king married Anne de Bretagne, widow of the king, in January 1499.

Justus Menius ( 13 December 1499 – 11 August 1558 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, whose name is Latinized from Jost or Just ( i. e. Jodocus ) Menig.

* December 24 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer ( b. c. 1469 )

D. Vasco da Gama () ( c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524 ), 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.

In 1519, after years of ignoring his petitions, King Manuel I finally hurried to give Vasco da Gama a feudal title, appointing him the first Count of Vidigueira, a count title created by a royal decree issued in Évora on December 29, after a complicated agreement with Dom Jaime, Duke of Braganza, who ceded him on payment the towns of Vidigueira and Vila dos Frades.

The first European visitor to the vicinity was Vasco da Gama on December 28, 1497.

In 1925, a commemorative stamp marked the 400th anniversary of the death of Vasco da Gama and in December 1931 a set of six promoted the Exposition of St. Francis Xavier held at Goa.

On December 11, 1934, Botafogo, Vasco, Bangu, São Cristóvão, Andaraí, Olaria, Carioca and Madureira founded the professional Federação Metropolitana de Desportos ( which means Sports Metropolitan Federation, in English ), usually known as FMD, replacing AMEA as the official Rio de Janeiro league affiliated to CBD.

Javier Aguirre Onaindía ( born December 1, 1958 in Mexico City ), popularly nicknamed El Vasco ( The Basque ), is a Mexican football manager and former midfielder.

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* December 30 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet ( d. 1707 )

* December 13 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 ( or the Fifth Institutional Act ), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

* December 13 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, and archivist ( d. 1950 )

* December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law ( d. 1889 )

* December 27 – Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect ( b. 1453 )

* December 14 – Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist ( b. 1370 )

Felice Peretti was born on December 13, 1521 at Grottammare, in the Papal States, to Pier Gentile ( also known as Peretto Peretti ), and Marianna da Frontillo.

After having sailed past Angola, Dias reached the Golfo da Conceicão ( Walvis Bay ) by December.

* Rammstein: The band's first performance in America in 10 years as part of their Liebe ist für alle da Tour on December 11, 2010.

As for João Rodrigues da Silva and his wife, both were born in Seville, and were married, also at the church of St Peter, on December 28, 1597.

As a guest of the King, Leonardo da Vinci came to Château Amboise in December 1515 and lived and worked in the nearby Clos Lucé, connected to the château by an underground passage.

Guarino da Verona ( 1374 – December 14, 1460 ) was an early figure in the Italian Renaissance.

Since 1996, The Raincoats have played some special events such as Robert Wyatt's Meltdown in 2001, at Chicks on Speed's 99 Cents album release in Berlin in December 2003. da Silva and Birch recently recorded a cover version of " Monk Chant " for a compilation album of The Monks songs called Silver Monk Time, and performed the song live with the Monks in the Volksbuehne, Berlin in October 2006.

In December 2005, BBC Saturday morning show Dick and Dom in da Bungalow featured a thirty year old man singing ' Bright Eyes ' with his friends as part of a talent spot.

* December 18-Francisco Manuel da Silva, songwriter and music professor ( b. 1795 )

* December 30-Vincenzo da Filicaja, poet ( died 1707 )

Eventually the case went to trial, and Puwak's husband, Iosif Mihai Puwak, was sentenced in December 2007 to a 30-month suspended sentence for embezzling 39, 000 euros from the EU da Vinci funds.

On December 10, 1956, in Portuguese Angola ( during the Estado Novo regime ) the tiny underground Angolan Communist Party ( PCA ) merged with the Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola ( PLUA ) to form the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, with Viriato da Cruz, the President of the PCA, as Secretary General.

* December 13, 2005: Lula da Silva, President of Brazil.

On 4 December 1755, little more than a month after the earthquake, Manuel da Maia, chief engineer to the realm, presented his plans for the re-building of Lisbon.