WHAT HAPPENED ON 31. DECEMBER
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Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul. (31. December 406)

Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year. (31. December 535)

The Lý Dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần Dynasty. (31. December 1225)

James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca. (31. December 1229)

The First Battle of Cannanore commences. (31. December 1501)

The British East India Company is chartered. (31. December 1600)

James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France. (31. December 1660)

The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope. (31. December 1687)

A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. (31. December 1695)

Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia (31. December 1757)

Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness. (31. December 1759)

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery. (31. December 1775)

Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time. (31. December 1790)

The incorporation of Baltimore as a city. (31. December 1796)

Gramercy Park is deeded to New York, New York. (31. December 1831)

A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England, United Kingdom (31. December 1853)

Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada. (31. December 1857)

American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two. (31. December 1862)

American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. (31. December 1862)

Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. (31. December 1878)