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On December 19, 653: Pope Martin I, having been abducted by Byzantine authorities from Rome for his opposition to Monothelitism, is tried in Constantinople.

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Pope Martin I, having been abducted by Byzantine authorities from Rome for his opposition to Monothelitism, is tried in Constantinople.

Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to his death 16 September 655. He had served as Pope Theodore I's ambassador to Constantinople, and was elected to succeed him as pope. He was the only pope when Constantinople controlled the papacy whose election had not awaited imperial mandate.

People

Born on December 19

King Princess 1998– American musician (born 1998)
Gabriel Magalhães 1997– Brazilian footballer (born 1997)
Fikayo Tomori 1997– English footballer (born 1997)
Franck Kessié 1996– Ivorian footballer (born 1996)
Maudy Ayunda 1994– Musical artist
M'Baye Niang 1994– Senegalese footballer (born 1994)
Young K 1993– South Korean singer (born 1993)
Isiah Koech 1993– Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1993)
Iker Muniain 1992– Spanish footballer (born 1992)
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Raphael Spiegel 1992– Swiss footballer (born 1992)
Steven Berghuis 1991– Dutch footballer (born 1991)
Declan Galbraith 1991– English musician (born 1991)
Josh Huestis 1991– American basketball player (born 1991)
Keiynan Lonsdale 1991– Australian actor and singer
Sumire Uesaka 1991– Japanese voice actress and singer
Greg Bretz 1990– American snowboarder (born 1990)
Torrey Craig 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)
Yong Jun-hyung 1989– South Korean musician and actor (born 1989)

People

Died on December 19

Michael Leunig Australian cartoonist (1945–2024)
Wincey Willis British broadcaster (1948–2024)
Sally Ann Howes British actress and singer (1930–2021)
Johnny Isakson American politician (1944–2021)
Rosalind Knight English actress (1933–2020)
Andrei Karlov Russian diplomat (1954–2016)
Jimmy Hill English association football personality (1928–2015)
Greville Janner British politician and barrister (1928–2015)
Karin Söder Swedish politician (1928–2015)
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S. Balasubramanian Indian journalist, filmmaker, and analyst (1935–2014)
Philip Bradbourn British politician (1951–2014)
Arthur Gardner American actor and film producer
Igor Rodionov Soviet and Russian general and politician
Dick Thornton American football player
Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman Lewin) British novelist and television writer (1926–2014)
Winton Dean English musicologist
Al Goldstein American pornographer (1936–2013)
Ned Vizzini American writer

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Every December 19 on record

  1. 653 Pope Martin I, having been abducted by Byzantine authorities from Rome for his opposition to Monothelitism, is tried in Constantinople.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 649 to 655

    Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to his death 16 September 655. He had served as Pope Theodore I's ambassador to Constantinople, and was elected to succeed him as pope. He was the only pope when Constantinople controlled the papacy whose election had not awaited imperial mandate.

  2. 1154 Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

    King of England from 1154 to 1189

    Henry II was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France, an area that was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland for a time and the Duchy of Brittany.

  3. 1187 Pope Clement III is elected.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 1187 to 1191

    Pope Clement III, born Paolo Scolari, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 December 1187 to his death in 1191. He ended the conflict between the Papacy and the city of Rome, by allowing the election of magistrates, which reinstalled the Papacy back in the city after a six-year exile. Clement, faced with a deplete college of cardinals, created thirty-one cardinals over three years, the most since Adrian IV.

  4. 1490 Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.

    Queen of France (1491–1498; 1499–1514) and Duchess of Brittany (1488–1514)

    Anne of Brittany was reigning Duchess of Brittany from 1488 until her death, and Queen of France from 1491 to 1498 and from 1499 to her death. She was the only woman to have been queen consort of France twice. During the Italian Wars, Anne also became Queen of Naples, from 1501 to 1504, and Duchess of Milan, in 1499–1500 and from 1500 to 1512.

  5. 1562 The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.

    1562 battle in the French Wars of Religion

    The Battle of Dreux was fought on 19 December 1562 between Catholics and Huguenots. The Catholics were led by Anne de Montmorency while Louis I, Prince of Condé, led the Huguenots. Though commanders from both sides were captured, the French Catholics won the battle which would constitute the first major engagement of the French Wars of Religion and the only major engagement of the first French War of Religion.

  6. 1606 The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
  7. 1675 The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
  8. 1688 Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing James II to flee England.
  9. 1776 Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
  10. 1777 American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
  11. 1783 William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 24.
  12. 1793 War of the First Coalition: The Siege of Toulon ends when Napoleon's French artillery forces the British to abandon the city, securing southern France from invasion.
  13. 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
  14. 1828 Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the Nullification Crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
  15. 1900 Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
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  1. 1900 French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as Dreyfus affair.
  2. 1907 Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
  3. 1912 William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3+1⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
  4. 1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
  5. 1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
  6. 1924 German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
  7. 1927 Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
  8. 1929 The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
  9. 1932 BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
  10. 1940 Risto Ryti, the Prime Minister of Finland, is elected President of the Republic of Finland in a presidential election, which is exceptionally held by the 1937 electoral college.
  11. 1941 World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
  12. 1941 World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
  13. 1945 John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.
  14. 1946 Start of the First Indochina War.
  15. 1956 Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

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