* October 13 – Panic of 1857: New York banks close and do not reopen until December 12.

* December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet ( d. 1857 )

* December 17 – Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuelan military dictator ( b. 1857 )

* December 30 – Hunter Liggett, American general ( b. 1857 )

* December 12 – William L. Marcy, American statesman ( d. 1857 )

* December 15 – Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator and engraver ( d. 1857 )

* December 27 – Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer ( d. 1857 )

While the earliest extant sketches date from December 1856, it was not until August 1857, however, that Wagner began devoting his attention entirely to the opera, putting aside the composition of Siegfried to do so.

Before his departure for Rome in December 1857, Bizet's prize cantata was performed at the Académie to an enthusiastic reception.

Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet ( 27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857 ) was a prolific English engineer and one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics.

According to the December 1857 issue of Chess Monthly, " his genial disposition, his unaffected modesty and gentlemanly courtesy have endeared him to all his acquaintances.

Bee County was founded December 8, 1857.

It was formed on December 22, 1857 from parts of Irwin, Pulaski, and Dooly counties.

It was created on December 22, 1857, from part of Habersham County.

The County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 22, 1857, and is named for William Schley, United States representative and thirty-sixth governor of Georgia.

It was created December 18, 1857, from Appling and Ware counties.

It was created on December 21, 1857.

It was created on December 19, 1857.

It was created on December 3, 1857 from Gilmer and Lumpkin counties.

They were later admitted to the Capuchin Order on December 2, 1857 by Father Antoine Gauchet of the Swiss Province who had been sent to admit them, in order to establish the Order in the United States.

Conservatives led by General Félix María Zuloaga, with the backing of the military and the clergy, launched a revolt under the Plan of Tacubaya on 17 December 1857.

In December 1857, Andrew Barry Moore ( 1807-1873 ) of Marion was elected the sixteenth Governor of Alabama ( 1857-1861 ).

Incorporated on December 22, 1857, the city is named for Senator William Crosby Dawson.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

In December 1978, there was media speculation that Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, might marry a Roman Catholic, although the rumours were never verified.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

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.

* Review of Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals The Times Friday, December 13, 1872 ; pg.

Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE ( born 8 December 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire ) is a retired England footballer best remembered for making his mark in history as the only player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final.

A memorial service held at St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne on 22 December was attended by a number of international dignitaries including President Johnson and Charles, Prince of Wales.

The islands were not officially named until Captain Charles J. Johnston of the Royal Naval ship sighted them on December 14, 1807.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

They had two children, Tammy Sue " Sissy " Bakker Chapman ( born March 2, 1970 ) and Jamie Charles " Jay " Bakker ( born December 18, 1975 ).

On 24 December 1989, a small band of rebels led by Doe's former procurement chief, Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

* Douglas Charles Abbott ( 1 July 1954 – 23 December 1973 )

" Eventually King Charles the I's terms of reforming the government as proposed by the Long Parliament were accepted by the House at a vote of 129 to 83 on 1 December 1648 allowing for the King's restoration and the end of the stalemate between Parliament and the King.

She was deposed in December in favour of her agnate, King Charles III of Hungary, but his brief reign ended with his murder at Elizabeth's instigation in February 1386.

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Pope Celestine V abdicated on 13 December 1294 at Naples, where he had established the papal court under the patronage of King Charles II of Sicily.

On the death of Charles of Naples on 24 February 1386, Urban moved to Lucca in December of the same year.

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This year saw another set of elections ; on 6 December, with Dionisio Anzilotti elected President and Charles Andre Weiss elected Vice-President.