December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is one of seven months with the length of 31 days. December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
December symbols: Its birth flower is the narcissus. The birthstones of December are the turquoise, zircon, and tanzanite. The zodiac signs for the month of December are Sagittarius (until December 21) and Capricorn (December 22 onwards).
Historical Events for December, 1853
Day of Week 30th » Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate Rail transport or railroad building in the Southwestern United States named Southwest.
Day of Week 31st » 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 called London, England.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1853
6th » Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
14th » Errico Malatesta, Italian activist (d. 1932)
17th » Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933)
19th » Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th List of lieutenant governors of Quebec known as Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
22nd » Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1917)
22nd » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (d. 1919)
22nd » Sarada Devi, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1920)
26th » René Bazin, French author and academic (d. 1932)
30th » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1929)