On 2 December 1805, Napoleon defeated a numerically superior Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz, forcing Austria's withdrawal from the coalition ( see Treaty of Pressburg ) and dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

On 2 December 1805, Napoleon defeated a numerically superior Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz, forcing Austria's withdrawal from the coalition ( see Treaty of Pressburg ) and dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

* December 29 – Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist ( d. 1805 )

* December 23 – James Bronterre O ' Brien, Chartist ( b. 1805 )

* December 10 – Henry Wells, American businessman ( b. 1805 )

* December 25 – Claude Chappe, French telecommunication pioneer ( d. 1805 )

* December 31 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general ( d. 1805 )

* December 27 – Arthur Murphy, Irish writer ( d. 1805 )

* December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter ( d. 1805 )

As a reward for his services at Austerlitz ( 2 December 1805 ) he became the 1st Sovereign Prince of Ponte Corvo ( 5 June 1806 ), but during the campaign against Prussia, in the same year, was severely reproached by Napoleon for not participating with his army corps in the battles of Jena and Auerstädt, though close at hand.

The Battle of Trafalgar ( 21 October 1805 ) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition ( August – December 1805 ) of the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).

Austria signed the Treaty of Pressburg ( 26 December 1805 ) and left the Coalition.

Thomas Graham FRS ( 21 December 1805 – 16 September 1869 ) was a nineteenth-century Scottish chemist who is best-remembered today for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases.

Frederick Augustus I ( full name: Frederick Augustus Joseph Maria Anton Johann Nepomuk Aloys Xavier ) (; 23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827 ) was King of Saxony ( 1805 – 1827 ) from the House of Wettin.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin ( December 6, 1805 – June 13, 1871 ) was a French magician.

Master of magic Robert-Houdin was born Jean Eugène Robert in Blois, France, on 6 December 1805 — a day after his autobiography said he was.

On Thursday, December 12, 1805, in the ninth Congress, Senator Stephen Row Bradley of Vermont gave notice that he would, bring in a bill to prohibit the importation of certain persons therein described " into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January ", which will be " in the year of our Lord 1808 ", The " certain persons " were described as being slaves on Monday, December 16, 1805.

It is the second date, December 7, 1805, that the county chose to observe as the creation date.

In exchange for providing France with a large auxiliary force, Napoleon recognized the Elector as King of Württemberg on 26 December 1805.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.

Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a ceremony held in Holyrood Abbey, and was created Duke of Albany, Marquess of Ormond, Earl of Ross and Lord Ardmannoch.

The wedding was deferred until Anne was 15 and finally took place along with that of Lady Elizabeth Hastings and Lord Herbert, on 16 December 1571 at Whitehall, with the Queen in attendance.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

Following the downfall of the Tory / Conservative minority government under Lord Derby in December 1852, Lord Aberdeen formed a new government from the coalition of Free Traders, Peelites and Whigs that had voted no confidence in the minority government.

Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

Another problem facing the Earl of Aberdeen in the formation of his new government in December 1852, was Lord Russell himself.

Consequently, Lord Aberdeen, was required to appoint Lord Russell as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he had done on 29 December 1852.

Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.

Henry Home, Lord Kames ( 169627 December 1782 ) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver.

In December 2010, a committee chaired by Lord Carswell recommended changes to the role of the Bailiff — in particular that the Bailiff should cease to the presiding officer over the States assembly.

* Download: Lord Stevens ' 832-page Operation Paget Report Into The Deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed & Henri Paul 14 December 2006

In December 1834 he was appointed as a Junior Lord of the Treasury in Sir Robert Peel's first ministry.

In December 1893 an Opposition motion proposed by Lord George Hamilton called for an expansion of the Royal Navy.

In December 1916 on unveiling a statue of Gladstone, Lord Rosebery speculated that Gladstone's view of British involvement in the Great War would not have been favourable.

* December 17 – Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer ( b. 1824 )

* December 30 – Jack Lord, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* December 27 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher ( b. 1697 )

* December 1 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England ( d. 1764 )