This Day in History
Today: December 5, 2025
-63
Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.[1]
633
Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville.[2]
1033
The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities across the Levant, triggers a tsunami and kills many.[3]
1082
Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated, most likely by his brother, Berenguer Ramon II.[4]
1408
Seeking to resubjugate Muscovy, Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow, burning areas around the city but failing to take the city itself.[5]
1456
The first of two earthquakes measuring Mw 7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme...
1484
Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.[7]
1496
King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jews from the country.[8]
1560
Thirteen-year-old Charles IX becomes king of France, with Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici as regent.[9]
1578
Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan, raids Valparaiso.[10]
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