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In December 1680, a prominent member of the county and professed Anglican, William Stevens of Rehoboth settlement, sent a request to the Presbytery of Laggan in northern Ireland to consider sending a Presbyterian minister to Somerset county ; and the first Presbyterian minister, Reverend Francis Makemie, arrived in early 1683, quickly followed by a growing list of additional Irish Presbyterian ministers and missionaries.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo ) ( Naples, 7 December 1598 – Rome, 28 November 1680 ) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome.
* December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor ( d. 1680 )
* December 9 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer ( d. 1680 )
* December 4 – Samuel Butler, English satirist ( d. 1680 )
* December 12 – Simeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet ( d. 1680 )
Anne's second cousin George of Hanover ( her eventual successor ) visited London for three months from December 1680, sparking rumours of a potential marriage between them.
* December 16-Lady Elizabeth Germain, aristocratic philanthropist, correspondent of Jonathan Swift ( born 1680 )
* December 4-Samuel Butler, poet ( died 1680 )
Some of his sermons, which John Evelyn found dull, were printed, including Character of the Last Daies, preached before the king, 1675, and a sermon preached before the House of Peers on 22 December 1680.
* December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome ( died 1680 )
On 7 December 1679, a petition signed by Shaftesbury and fifteen other Whig peers calling on Charles to meet parliament, followed up with a 20, 000-name petition on 13 January 1680.
On 23 December 1680, Shaftesbury gave another fiery pro-Exclusion speech in the Lords, in the course of which he attacked the Duke of York, expressed mistrust of Charles II, and urged the parliament to not approve any taxes until " the King shall satisfie the People, that what we give is not to make us Slaves and Papists.
Thomas Bartholin ( Latinized: Bartolinus ) ( 20 October 1616 – 4 December 1680 ) was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian.
* William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford ( 1614 – 1680 ) ( attainted 7 December 1680 )
* December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer ( born 1680 )
* Ponce, Pedro, " Trouble for the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 ", Humanities, November / December 2002, Volume 23 / Number 6.
Roger Long ( 1680 – 16 December 1770 ) was an English astronomer, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge between 1733 and 1770.
On December 20, 1680, the House of Commons of England petitioned the King to give his assent to a Bill of Exclusion to disinherit the Duke of York ; adding that, unless and until the bill was passed, Parliament could not give any supplies to Charles.
On December 28, 1680 Colonel Percy Kirke was appointed Colonel and Governor.
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC, FRS ( March 1606 – 8 December 1680 ) was an English peer, the son of the Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Dorchester survived his sons and when he died in London on 8 December 1680 the Marquessate of Dorchester became extinct.
Josiah Winslow was born in Plymouth Colony in 1629 and died on December 18, 1680 in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Willem Claeszoon Heda ( December 14, 1593 / 1594 – c. 1680 / 1682 ) was a Dutch Golden Age artist from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still lifes.
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On December 10, 1810 he married the socially prominent Countess Marie von Brühl and socialized with Berlin's literary and intellectual elite.
Menachen Begin was called a terrorist and a fascist by Albert Einstein and 27 other prominent Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times which was published on December 4, 1948.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873 ) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.
* December 23 – Duncan Hallas, prominent member of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain ( d. 2002 )
Anders Hejlsberg ( born December 1960 ) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools.
Sergei Mironovich Kirov (; – 1 December 1934 ), born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.
Expelled from the PT in December 2003, she helped found PSOL, in which various Trotskyist groups play a prominent role.
Jacob Bernoulli ( also known as James or Jacques ) ( 27 December 1654 – 16 August 1705 ) was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
In December 2001, a number of prominent Afghans met under the United Nations auspices in Germany to decide on a plan for governing the country.
William Stephen " Billy " Wright ( 7 July 1960 – 27 December 1997 ) was a prominent Ulster loyalist during the period of violent ethno-political conflict known as " The Troubles ".
During the December 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Germany, Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six month term as Chairman of the Interim Administration.
Friedrich Wilhelm " F. W ." Murnau ( born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe ; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931 ) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s.
In December 2011, The Daily Mail published an article detailing the arrests of two Hollywood players who were accused of pedophilia: Martin Weiss, who a prominent manager of child actors, and convicted sex offender / kidnapper Jason James Murphy, who had been working as a casting director and had helped place child actors in Bad News Bears, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and Super 8, " films with predominantly young casts ".
Santa Claus Town attractions included a red-brick Candy Castle, sponsored by Curtiss Candy and dedicated December 22, 1935, and the Toy Village, a series of miniature fairytale buildings sponsored by prominent national toy manufacturers.
Diego María de la Concepción Juan epomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez ( December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957 ) better known simply as Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, and husband of Frida Kahlo ( 1929 – 1939 and 1940 – 1954 ).
On 7 and 8 December 1982, 15 young prominent Surinamese men who criticized Bouterse's military dictatorship were snatched from their beds and brought to Fort Zeelandia ( then headquarters of dictator Bouterse ) where they were tortured and shot dead.
This led internationally to great controversy, since all nine are accused of involvement in the December murders of 1982, when 15 prominent young Surinamese men were tortured and murdered because they criticized the then military dictatorship in Suriname.
The town's most prominent role in national affairs took place in early December 1066.
* John Willoughby " Johnny " Jones ( October 26, 1934 — December 12, 2008 ) was a prominent Brady banker and rancher and a former regent of his alma mater, Texas Tech University of Lubbock.
William Lloyd Garrison ( December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879 ) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
Some prominent gentlemen of the county of Cheshire met in Bunbury on December 23, 1642 and drew up the Bunbury Agreement.
John Pym ( 1584 – 8 December 1643 ) was an English parliamentarian, leader of the Long Parliament and a prominent critic of James I and then Charles I.
In December 1955 Burke and the Gospel Cavaliers performed at the Liberty Baptist Church, at 5944 Larchwood Avenue, West Philadelphia, and so impressed Viola Williams, wife of Kae " Loudmouth " Williams, a prominent African American Philadelphia deejay.
Willie Gary " Bunk " Johnson ( December 27, 1879-July 7, 1949 ) was a prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s.
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