2nd » At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Coronation of Napoleon I or Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself List of French monarchs or Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1804
10th » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (d. 1851)
13th » Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1873)
16th » Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1889)
21st » Benjamin Disraeli, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
23rd » Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French author, critic, and academic (d. 1869)