December 31 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 New Year’s Eve. May the new year be a happy one for everyone!
🌏 World Day of Peace Meditation.
🔹NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Customs Officers’ Day.
🇹🇱 East Timor – National Heroes’ Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis around the world.
👉 EVENTS:
– 406 – Vandals, Alans, Suevi and other barbarian tribes invaded the Roman province of Gaul.
– 1600 – The English East India Company was established by decree of Elizabeth I.
– 1621 – The Treaty of Mikulov (Nikolsburg) between the Prince of Transylvania Gabor Bethlen and Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg.
– 1695 – A window tax was introduced in Britain, which resulted in many windows being covered with bricks.
– 1741 – The Leyb campaign was introduced in Russia.
– 1799 – All privileges of the East India Company were completely abolished.
– 1800 – The last day of the existence of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
– 1857 – Queen Victoria of England declared Ottawa the capital of the British colony.
– 1869 – British amateur archaeologist John Wood discovered the ruins of the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, located south of Izmir, at a depth of 7 meters.
– 1888 – The founding congress of the Austrian Social Democratic Party opened.
– 1899 – Akhalkalaki earthquake.
– 1915 – Produgol ceased its activities.
– 1917 – Soviet power was established in Rostov-on-Don.
– 1917 – Russia granted independence to Finland.
– 1930 – The Papal Court condemned contraception.
– 1943 – The city of Zhytomyr was liberated.
– 1944 – The liberation of Montenegro by the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Army.
– 1946 – The evacuation of British and French troops from Lebanon was completed.
– 1963 – The Central African Federation was created.
– 1963 – The last day of the existence of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
– 1968 – The first flight of the Tu-144 aircraft.
– 1990 – The Silk Road Bank and the Turonbank Open Joint-Stock Commercial Bank began their operations.
– 1992 – The last day of the existence of the Czechoslovak state.
– 1994 – The siege of Grozny began.
– 1999 – Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia.
