In December 1851, the town was home to a movement of republican resistance towards Napoleon III's coup.

This move incited protests around the colony, including the Forest Creek Monster Meeting of December 1851.

Washington Crossing the Delaware, December 25, 1776, by Emanuel Leutze, 1851

Thus, Louis Bonaparte would be unable to succeed himself and after 20 December 1851 wold no longer be President.

Thus, on 2 December 1851, shortly before the end of his single three-year term in office was to expire, Louis Bonaparte staged a coup against the Second Republic in France, disbanded the elected Constituent Assembly, arrested some of the Republican leaders and declared himself Emperor Napoleon III of France.

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.

Because of the controversy surrounding Palmerston's removal as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because of his letter to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, Palmerston could not now be appointed Foreign Minister again so soon after his removal from the same position.

From December 1851 to March 1852 Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, a work on the French Revolution of 1848, in which he expanded upon his concepts of historical materialism, class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat, advancing the argument that victorious proletariat has to smash the bourgeois state.

* December 2 – Vincent d ' Indy, French composer ( b. 1851 )

* December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification ( b. 1851 )

* December 10 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator ( d. 1851 )

* December 4 – Charles Dow, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company ( b. 1851 )

* December 16 – Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović, Serbian inventor ( b. 1851 )

* December 26 – Daniel Frohman, American theater producer ( b. 1851 )

* December 25 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer ( b. 1851 )

* December 10 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician ( d. 1851 )

* December 19 – Marie Thérèse Charlotte ( d. 1851 )

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

When Louis Bonaparte carried out a coup against the French government and made himself president for life on December 2, 1851, Marx and Engels, like many people, were shocked.

In condemning this action, Engels wrote to Marx about the coup on December 3, 1851.

* Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte ( 19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851 )

* Hugo himself joined the revolutionaries against Napoleon III on the barricades in December 1851.

His attitude contributed greatly to give popular confidence to his cousin Louis Napoleon ( Napoleon III of France ), of whose coup d ' état on 2 December 1851 he disapproved ; but he was soon reconciled to the emperor, and accepted the title of prince.

Elected President by popular vote in 1848, he initiated a coup d ' état in 1851, before ascending the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation.

In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold ( along with her two children, six-year-old James Alfred, and baby Araminta ) in Cambridge.

Jackson soon fled North with Tubman and her brothers in December 1854 ; Bailey would wait another two years before the right time presented itself.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

On 26 December 2008, the PLAN dispatched a task group consisting of the guided missile destroyer Haikou ( flagship ), the guided missile destroyer Wuhan, and the supply ship Weishanhu to the Gulf of Aden to participating in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia.

The Defoe Shipbuilding Company, which ceased operations December 31, 1975 built destroyer escorts, guided missile destroyers, and patrol craft for the United States Navy.

In December 2002, the 524 FS deployed to Kuwait and participated in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, dropping nearly a million pounds of precision guided munitions, more than any other F-16 Block 40 squadron in history.

The first successful fully guided firing of the Storm Shadow / SCALP EG took place at the CEL Biscarosse range in France at the end of December 2000 from a Mirage 2000N.

On the morning of December 5, Maverick guided Milam's detachment into the city, while Smith guided a second detachment under Colonel Frank Johnson.

In a December 2007 response to questions from Norman Baker MP, the Solicitor-General said that the police investigation, guided by the opinion of a senior barrister, had produced " sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction " on charges of forgery, using a forged document and criminal damage but it had been decided that it was not in the public interest to proceed.

In December 1995, Atkinson guided the Sky Blues to one of their best results of the 1990s – a 5 – 0 home win over defending champions Blackburn Rovers.

Terrace Hill is open for guided tours from 10: 00am to 1: 30pm, Tuesday through Saturday, March through December.

His Auxiliary Bishop, Bishop Mervyn Alexander was appointed eighth Bishop of Clifton in December 1974 and guided the Diocese for the next 27 years.

In September 2001, Clive Jones rejoined Pontypridd as Director of Rugby, and had, by December 2001, brought Lynn Howells back from Cardiff, who then proceeded to marshal the club to become Principality Cup winners in May 2002 and guided the team to the final of the Parker Pen European Shield days later.

The Hall has a programme of events, including the annual Regency Ball, a Christmas Fair each December and guided tours, workshops and children's activities throughout the year.

In October 1835, he discovered the mule train that brought on the Grass Fight and in December 1835 he guided troops into San Antonio in the Siege and Battle of Bexar where he was wounded atop the Veramendi House at the same time that Ben Milam was killed.

This culminated in December 1990, with Operation Night Camel in which air crews of the F-111 evaluated the ability of aircraft to use guided munitions with the LANTIRN and Pave Tack target designation systems from medium altitude.

Strickman joined Florida International University in January, 2001, and has since successfully guided the law school to provisional accreditation at the earliest possible time, in August 2004, and to full accreditation in December 2006.

* The /( CG-22 ) was a guided missile cruiser, was commissioned on December 7, 1963, and decommissioned on January 21, 1994.

In December Darwin completed extensive revisions of the Origin, using the word " evolution " for the first time and adding a new chapter to refute Mivart's guided jumps, tackling the argument of uselessness of part-evolved organs with myriad examples of gradual development or organs changing function.

In December 2006, Larry DuPraz, the beloved long-time employee of the newspaper who directed its publication and guided its editors from 1946 to 1987, died from heart disease at the age of 87.

In December 1979, McLean guided his team to triumph in the League Cup and retained it a year later.