In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

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.

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

Monet and Camille Doncieux had married just before the war ( 28 June 1870 ) and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they had moved to Argenteuil, in December 1871.

Consequently, Abbott studied in New York City under Achille Errani, and made her concert début there in December 1871.

* Aida, 24 December 1871

In December 1871 he made a second eight month excursion, known as the Hassler expedition under the command of Commander Philip Carrigan Johnson ( brother of Eastman Johnson ), visiting South America on its southern Atlantic and Pacific seaboards.

On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell ( 1855 – 1884 ), whom he had met two months earlier ; she was an employee at one of his shops.

* 28 December 1871 — Antonio Meucci files patent caveat No. 3335 in the U. S. Patent Office titled " Sound Telegraph ", describing communication of voice between two people by wire.

* Edward VII survived in December 1871.

The paper is now known for printing the first English version of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in its December 30, 1871 edition, and the paper " argued the cause of labor with eloquence and skill.

Grace and his brother Fred faced financial difficulty after their father died in December 1871 as they were still living with their mother who had been left just enough to retain the family home.

Grace endured a number of tragedies in his life beginning with the death of his father in December 1871.

* December 26 – Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor ( d. 1871 )

* December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( b. 1871 )

* December 25 – Newton D. Baker, United States Secretary of War ( b. 1871 )

* August 10 – At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held for the Imperial Natural History Museum (), begun in 1871 ; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175, 000 visitors.

* December 13 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1871 )

( Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz has argued that the scenario was actually written by Temistocle Solera ..) Aida was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.

Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871.

The Revised Version was finished in 1872 ( vocal score, 14 December 1871 ; full score 23 June 1872 ), and submitted to the Imperial Theatres in the autumn.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945 ) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

In December 1871 he left the railroad yards for work on the railways as a locomotive fireman for the same company.

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

He travelled to Russia in December 1871, spending nearly a year learning the language.

The London Universe devoted its centenary issue last December 8 to mapping out various aspects of Catholic progress during the last one hundred years.

* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

Alexios V Doukas, surnamed Mourtzouphlos (, d. December 1205, Constantinople ) was Byzantine Emperor ( 5 February – 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

She stayed for two years, winning a good-conduct medal in December 1836, and returning home only during Christmas and summer holidays.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

Baldassarre Cossa ( c. 1370 – 21 December 1418 ) was Pope John XXIII ( 1410 – 1415 ) during the Western Schism.

Autumn has a strong association with American football, as the regular season begins during September and ends with playoff competition in December or January, in the winter season.

The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:

Babrak Karmal (, born Sultan Hussein ; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War.

Congressman Cliff Stearns said in December 2007 that Selig should resign because of use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball during his tenure.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

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.

The other rainy season is between December and June, when the northeast trade winds are common during this season, only altitudes above 600m tend to receive regular rain.

Since the death of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar in a police shootout during December 1993, indiscriminate acts of violence associated with that organization have abated as the " cartels " have broken up into multiple, smaller and often-competing trafficking organizations.

cyclones possible during rainy season ( December to April ); Le Kartala on Grande Comore is an active volcano

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the Split Enz farewell tour, Enz with a Bang, during November and December 1984.

Traditional crib ( szopka ) at the Main Market Square, Kraków during szopka tournament on first Thursday of each December

* 1972 – Vijay Diwas: ( Victory Day ) is commemorated every 16 December in India as it marks its military victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

Thunderstorms: Activity is generally noticed during the afternoon and evenings during the summer months ( December through March ) and when the Intertropical Convergence Zone is in the vicinity of the island.

The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.