WHAT HAPPENED ON 5. DECEMBER
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Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations. (5. December 63. BC)

Fourth Council of Toledo takes place. (5. December 633)

Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated. (5. December 1082)

Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow. (5. December 1408)

Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany. (5. December 1484)

Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). (5. December 1492)

King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country. (5. December 1496)

Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. (5. December 1757)

In London, James Christie holds his first sale. (5. December 1766)

At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. (5. December 1775)

Foundation of Maceió, Brazil. (5. December 1815)

Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives. (5. December 1831)

Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. senate, his first political post. (5. December 1847)

California Gold Rush: In a message to the U.S. Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. (5. December 1848)

Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. (5. December 1865)

The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, New York. (5. December 1876)

Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece. (5. December 1920)

German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. (5. December 1932)

Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.) (5. December 1933)

Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. (5. December 1934)