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 )

In December 1851, Tubman guided an unidentified group of 11 fugitives, possibly including the Bowleys and several others she had helped rescue earlier, northward.

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.

Louis H. Grenier, clerk of the board, said that the appeals will be reviewed in December at the time the board is visiting new construction sites in the town for assessment purposes.

The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.

* 1470 20 December – A new charter was granted to the town of Gibraltar, now a nobiliary town, based in the Antequera charter.

* 1501 2 December – Acknowledging the importance of the town, the Catholic Monarchs asked the Duke of Medina Sidonia for the return of Gibraltar to the domains of the crown.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

Christopher Columbus established a small settlement called La Navidad, near the modern town of Cap Haitien, built from the timbers of his wrecked ship Santa María, during his first voyage in December 1492.

On December 20, 1959, a Muay Thai among Thai fighters was held at Tokyo Asakusa town hall in Japan.

On December 30, 2005 the Lebanese army dismantled two other Katyusha rockets found in the border town of Naqoura, an action suggesting increased vigilance following PM Saniora's angry remarks.

Zamenhof was born on December 15 ( December 3 OS ), 1859 in the town of Białystok in the Russian Empire ( now part of Poland ).

Since December 1994 the old town of Quedlinburg and the castle mount with the collegiate church are listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

Robert Gordon Menzies was born to James Menzies and Kate Menzies ( née Sampson ) in Jeparit, a town in the Wimmera region of northwestern Victoria, on 20 December 1894.

From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg.

He and his troops did not stay for long, however, as the town was quickly engulfed by the plague, which ultimately killed Piccolomini himself in December 1689.

* On 2 December 1959, Malpasset Dam in southern France collapsed and water flowed over the town of Frejus, killing 412.

* December 2 – Malpasset Dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Frejus, killing 412.

* December 15 – Women of Fredonia, New York, march against the retail liquor dealers in town to inaugurate the Woman's Crusade of 1873 – 74.

* December 7 – A 5. 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys most of the Bulgarian town of Strajica, killing 2 people.

* December 20 – The town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, is incorporated.

* The Puritan minister Richard Baxter, ( born 12 November 1615 – died 8 December 1691 ) began his ministry in Kidderminster in April 1641 and spent the next 19 years in the town.

* December 8 – the first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana ( Ashmyany ), launching the most active phase of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

On December 28, 1908, at exactly 5: 21 AM, the town was hit by a heavy earthquake and shook violently for 31 seconds.

In December 1499, Vasco da Gama was rewarded by King Manuel I of Portugal with the town of Sines as a hereditary fief ( the very town which his father, Estêvão, had once held as a commenda ).