WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. DECEMBER
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Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. (1. December 800)

Henry V of England enters Paris. (1. December 1420)

Francis Walsingham is knighted. (1. December 1577)

End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty. (1. December 1640)

The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway. (1. December 1768)

Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil. (1. December 1822)

United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (1. December 1824)

French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege. (1. December 1826)

Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution. (1. December 1828)

Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. (1. December 1834)

In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. (1. December 1862)

Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. (1. December 1865)

First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas. (1. December 1885)

The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation. (1. December 1913)

The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. (1. December 1913)

Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. (1. December 1913)

Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union. (1. December 1918)

The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. (1. December 1918)

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. (1. December 1918)

Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.) (1. December 1919)