What are the important events that happened on December 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 25 is the 359^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 12, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,443,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectapentacontaenneagon’ day.

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 54 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,752 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 25 Historical Events

• 350 –
  Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
• 1066 –
  William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
• 1261 –
  John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
• 1643 –
  Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
• 1850 –
  Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
• 1968 –
  42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
• 1991 –
  Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine’s referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
• 2000 –
  Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
• 2007 –
  A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
• 2009 –
  Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253

Who were born on December 25?

• 1776 –
  Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Irish writer (alleged date of birth) (d. 1859)
• 1899 –
  Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
• 1913 –
  Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966)
• 1915 –
  Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer (d. 2011)
• 1925 –
  Ned Garver, American baseball player
• 1935 –
  Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (d. 2009)
• 1942 –
  Francoise Durr, French tennis player
• 1946 –
  Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
• 1949 –
  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Singer and icon of the Brazilian music
• 1976 –
  Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer

Who died on December 25?

• 820 –
  Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 775)
• 1676 –
  William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
• 1758 –
  James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
• 1916 –
  St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
• 1926 –
  Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
• 1947 –
  Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician (b. 1886)
• 1949 –
  Leon Schlesinger, American film producer (b. 1884)
• 1979 –
  Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
• 1995 –
  Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (b. 1906)
• 2002 –
  William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)