What is December 4?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[771]] &ndash; [[Austrasia]]n King [[Carloman, son of Pippin III|Carloman]] dies, leaving his brother [[Charlemagne]] King of the now complete [[Frankish]] Kingdom. * [[963]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo VIII]] is elected. * [[1110]] &ndash; [[First Crusade]]: The [[Crusade]]rs conquer [[Sidon]]. * [[1154]] &ndash; Nicholas Breakspear is elected to become [[Pope Adrian IV]], and is the only Englishman to have been [[Pope]]. * [[1259]] &ndash; Kings [[Louis IX of France]] and [[Henry III of England]] agree to the [[Treaty of Paris (1259)|Treaty of Paris]], in which Henry renounces his claims to [[France|French]]–controlled territory on continental [[Europe]] (including [[Normandy]]) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels. * [[1563]] &ndash; The final session of the [[Council of Trent]] is held (it opened on [[December 13]], [[1545]]). * [[1619]] &ndash; 38 [[colony|colonists]] from Berkeley Parish in [[England]] disembark in [[Virginia]] and give thanks to [[God]] (this is considered to be the first [[Thanksgiving]] in the [[Americas]]). * [[1639]] &ndash; [[Jeremiah Horrocks]] made the first observation of a [[transit of Venus]]. ([[November 24]] under the [[Julian calendar]].) * [[1674]] &ndash; Father [[Jacques Marquette]] founds a mission on the shores of [[Lake Michigan]] to minister to the [[Illiniwek]] (the mission would later grow into the city of [[Chicago, Illinois]]). * [[1676]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lund]]: A Danish army under the command of King [[Christian V of Denmark]] engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal [[Simon Grundel-Helmfelt]]. * [[1745]] &ndash; [[Charles Edward Stuart]]'s [[army]] reaches [[Derby]], its furthest point during the second [[Jacobite]] Rising. * [[1783]] &ndash; At Fraunces Tavern in [[New York City]], United States General [[George Washington]] formally bids his officers farewell. * [[1791]] &ndash; The first issue of ''[[The Observer]]'', the world's first Sunday [[newspaper]], is published.