This Day in History
Today: December 19, 2025
1154
Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.[1]
1187
Pope Clement III is elected.[2]
1490
Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.[3]
1562
The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.[4]
1606
The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.[5]
1675
The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.[6]
1776
Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".[7]
1777
American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.[8]
1783
William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 24.[9]
1793
War of the First Coalition: The Siege of Toulon ends when Napoleon's French artillery forces the British to abandon the city, securing southern France from invasion.[10]
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