* December 17 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman ( b. 1783 )

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco ( July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830 ), commonly known as Simón Bolívar (), was a Venezuelan military and political leader.

On December 17, 1830, at the age of forty-seven, Simón Bolívar died after a painful battle with tuberculosis in the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino in Santa Marta, Gran Colombia ( now Colombia ).

Upon petitioning the Assembly for a town charter, the citizens of Mudfort chose to name their town for the South American revolutionary leader, Simón Bolívar ( July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830 ).

* December 17 – Boca Juniors defeats Bolívar 2-1 on aggregate to win the Copa Sudamericana final in Buenos Aires

On December 3, 1933 the first PCE parliamentarian, Cayetano Bolívar Escribano, was elected.

Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé ( born December 23, 1945 in San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar ) is a Colombian boxing trainer and former two time world Jr. Welterweight champion.

Bolívar and other republican leaders returned to Venezuela in December 1816, leading a largely unsuccessful insurrection against Spain from 1816 to 1818 from bases in the Llanos and Ciudad Bolívar in the Orinoco River area.

It is said that the Liberator Simón Bolívar stayed there on December 23 of 1826 and from the balcony greeted the patriots who gathered outside to greet him.

Simón Bolívar died at an estate named Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino on the outskirts of Santa Marta on December 17, 1830.

In December 1889, the entity that conformed Bolívar, was renamed to Miranda, being its capital Bolivia.

The military and political career of Simón Bolívar, ( July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830 ), which included both formal service in the armies of various revolutionary regimes and actions organized by himself or in collaboration with other exiled patriot leaders during the years from 1811 to 1830, was an important element in the success of the independence wars in South America.

The delegation did not have much success, but Bolívar did return in December 1810 with Francisco de Miranda, who saw an opportunity in the political turmoil to return to Venezuela.

In the weeks before arriving in Cartagena in October 1812, Bolívar began to analyze the collapse of the Venezuelan republic and published his thoughts in December in his Cartagena Manifesto.

In Haiti Bolívar gathered new supplies and organized a second expedition, named by history as the Jacmel Expedition for the city from which it departed, and on December 31, 1816, landed in Barcelona controlled by Mariño, who by this point barely accepted Bolívar as head of the republicans.

Bolívar himself died in the same year at age 47 on December 17.

Bolívar would never set sail, and instead, died in Santa Marta of tuberculosis on December 17, 1830.

Ayacucho was chosen for symbolic reasons: it was there that Antonio José de Sucre, fighting under the banner of Simón Bolívar " the Liberator ", defeated the last Imperial Spanish troops in South America on 9 December 1824.

Currently operates the Municipal Government, served to accommodate Bolívar and Nariño amongst others, built by Father Fray Thomas Morales on December 13, 1610, this was the first colonial building of the town, around which was developed gradually people.

Bolívar summoned from Lima the Panama Congress, on December 7, for the unión of the new independent countries.

On December 17 of 1830, at the age of forty-seven, Simón Bolívar died after a painful battle with tuberculosis in the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino in Santa Marta, Gran Colombia ( now Colombia ).

While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.

Marlborough returned to England on 14 December ( O. S ) to the acclamation of Queen Anne and the country.

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.

The Spanish musician probably wrote the work by 1827, the date he returned to Barcelona, and his hymn debuted in Santiago, in the Arteaga theater, 23 December 1828.

Charlton finally returned to The Valley in December 1992, celebrating with a 1 – 0 victory against Portsmouth.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents ' house in Southwold, which was to remain his base for the next five years.

The few survivors were evacuated when the ships returned on 15 December 1609.

Following a defeat of his forces at the Battle of Reading on 9 December, James and his wife fled the nation ; James, however, returned to London for a two-week period that culminated in his final departure for France on 23 December.

After his discharge on 18 December, he returned to Landshut.

In December that year, however, Williams was dismissed for irregularities in his qualifications and Wells was returned to Uppark.

The team returned in December.

After a short season, Robinson returned to California in December 1941 to pursue a career as running back for the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the Pacific Coast Football League.

He also returned to Comerica Park on August 12 and 13. In December he went a 12 city club tour and donated proceeds to various charities in each city to support his single " Care ".

It returned to Broadway in 1904, where it played from March to May and again from November to December.

In December 1988, he returned to Warsaw, due to his promotion to the position of the Secretary of the PZPR Central Committee.

In December 1995, the MLP returned to power, this time in coalition with the MMM.

Trained by the British Special Operations Executive ( SOE ), the pair returned to the Protectorate by parachute, jumping from a Handley Page Halifax, on 28 December 1941.

However, they vanished in December 2004 while on bail and returned to Ireland.

Therefore, when Zimbabwe Rhodesia returned to colonial status from December 1979 to April 1980, it was named " Southern Rhodesia " ( which had always been the official British government name for Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia ).

This new order also failed to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the world, and British control returned to the country in December 1979, following the Lancaster House Agreement.

According to the Ministry of Resettlement, most of the displaced persons had been released or returned to their places of origin, leaving only 6, 651 in the camps as of December 2011.

The party was returned to power under the same leadership in December 2005, holding the same twelve seats in Parliament.

Elections held in December 2000 returned the UNC to power when they won 19 seats, while the opposition PNM won 16, and the NAR 1.