WHAT HAPPENED ON 11. DECEMBER
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Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the Han Dynasty throne. The Cao Wei empire is established. The Three Kingdoms period begins. (11. December 220)

Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire. (11. December 361)

Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca. (11. December 630)

Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes. (11. December 969)

Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, in mid-Wales. (11. December 1282)

A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.) (11. December 1602)

Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, allegedly throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. (11. December 1688)

The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly. (11. December 1789)

French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention. (11. December 1792)

The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance. (11. December 1815)

Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state. (11. December 1816)

Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay. (11. December 1868)

A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic. (11. December 1905)

The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire. (11. December 1907)

World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law. (11. December 1917)

Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for an IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces. (11. December 1920)

Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King. (11. December 1925)

Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet. (11. December 1927)

Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland. (11. December 1931)

Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time. (11. December 1934)