Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

In 1894 and 1895 he filed patents and addenda in various countries for his Diesel engine ; the first patents were issued in Spain ( No. 16, 654 ), France ( No. 243, 531 ) and Belgium ( No. 113, 139 ) in December 1894, and in Germany ( No. 86, 633 ) in 1895 and the United States ( No. 608, 845 ) in 1898.

The club gained professional status on 12 December 1898, in the same year that they were admitted into the Southern League's Second Division.

Saints Sergius of Valaam | Sergius and Herman of Valaam | Herman of Valaam Chapel, built in 1898 over the site where St. Herman was buried on Spruce Island in December 1836.

The first tram line in Seoul started operation between Seodaemun and Cheongnyangni in December 1898.

William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS ( 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898 ) was a British Liberal statesman.

* December 14 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1898 )

* December 24 – Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher and writer ( b. 1898 )

* December 26 – Erich Bey, German admiral ( b. 1898 )

* December 10 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet ( b. 1898 )

* December 19 – Martin Savage, IRA commander ( b. 1898 )

* December 9 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer ( b. 1898 )

* December 12 – Eleanor Boardman, American actress ( b. 1898 )

* December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1898 )

* December 25 – Agnes Ayres, American actress ( b. 1898 )

* December 20 – Emil Artin, Austrian mathematician ( b. 1898 )

* December 8 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel ( b. 1898 )

* December 23 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector ( b. 1898 )

* December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( b. 1898 )

* December 30 – Theodor Fontane, German writer ( d. 1898 )

* December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

Sometime before December 1837, Anne became seriously ill with gastritis and underwent a religious crisis.

This foray into government policy making, however, ended in a new currency crisis that December and the failure ( compounded by the company's lackluster business performance ) resulted in Born's 1991 ouster from the board ; he was replaced by Chief Operations Officer Octavio Caraballo.

Long-time President Houphouët Boigny, in power since the 1960s, passed away in December 1993, unleashing a succession crisis which quickly involved the power institutions of the state.

In December 1917 the Bolsheviks were themselves under intense pressure from the Germans to conclude peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, and Russia Bolshevism was in deep crisis, with a demoralized army and the fate of the October Revolution in doubt.

After the crisis was resolved, family members were allowed to return to the base in December 1962.

Indonesia regained its investment grade rating from Fitch Rating in late 2011, and from Moody's Rating in early 2012, after losing its investment grade rating in December 1997 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis which Indonesia spent more than Rp450 trillion ($ 50 billion ) to bail out lenders from banks.

During the abdication crisis of December 1936, Ribbentrop reported to Berlin that the reason the crisis had occurred was an anti-German Jewish-Masonic-reactionary conspiracy to depose Edward ( whom Ribbentrop represented as a staunch friend of Germany ), and that civil war would soon break out in Britain between the King's supporters and those of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's.

* 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

In late December 1999, Musharraf's dealt with his first international crisis when India accused Pakistan's involvement in the Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking.

In December 1836, the Michigan territorial government, facing a dire financial crisis and pressure from Congress and President Andrew Jackson, called another convention ( called the " Frost-bitten Convention ") which accepted the compromise which resolved the Toledo War.

A crisis erupted over the writs of assistance on December 27, 1760 when the news of King George II's October 23 death arrived in Boston.

The Constitution was amended in December 2004 to ease the resolution of the 2004 presidential election crisis.

* December 16 – 19 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U. S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

The King's desire to marry a woman with two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, and ultimately led to the King's abdication in December 1936 to marry " the woman I love ".

A six-month political crisis triggered by a dispute over the outcome of the presidential elections held in December 2001 virtually halted economic activity in much of the country in the first half of 2002.

When President Taylor in his December 1849 message to Congress urged the admission of California as a free state, a state of crisis was further aggravated.

During the aftermath of this crisis, on 21 December 1963, intercommunal violence broke out between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

* On December 3, 2009, U. S. Congressman Peter DeFazio, who blamed " reckless speculation " for the 2008 financial crisis, proposed the introduction of a financial transaction tax, which would specifically target speculators by taxing financial market securities transactions.

Several economists and historians, amongst them Hufbauer and Schoot ( 2005 ), have analyzed some of the events and policy mistakes that precipitated the crisis of December 1994.

With respect to the collapse of the economy, he rapidly responded by blaming Zedillo's " inept " handling of the situation, coining the term " December Mistake " to refer to the crisis and Zedillo's mistakes.

The latter was the only important piece he composed between December 1860 and August 1863: the reasons for this probably lie in the painful re-emergence of his subjective crisis in 1860 and the purely objective difficulties which resulted from the emancipation of the serfs the following year – as a result of which the family was deprived of half its estate, and Mussorgsky had to spend a good deal of time in Karevo unsuccessfully attempting to stave off their looming impoverishment.

After the retreat of De Gaulle in 1968, the EEC Summit of The Hague in December 1969 ended the long crisis of the EEC integration process, opened the way to British membership and agreed on new venues for political cooperation, a common market and monetary union.

De la Rúa, however, could not manage an economic crisis and finally resigned on December 21, 2001, amid violent riots.