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, 1,766,620,800 seconds 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

• 333 –
  Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
• 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.
• 1553 –
  Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
• 1643 –
  Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
• 1932 –
  A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
• 1950 –
  The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
• 1968 –
  Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
• 1974 –
  Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
• 2003 –
  The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.

Who were born on December 25?

• 1890 –
  Noel Odell, British mountaineer (d. 1987)
• 1935 –
  Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (d. 2009)
• 1944 –
  Kenny Everett, British entertainer (d. 1995)
• 1946 –
  Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
• 1950 –
  Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor
• 1957 –
  Chris Kamara, English footballer and commentator
• 1968 –
  Helena Christensen, Danish model
• 1970 –
  Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian footballer
• 1975 –
  Choi Sung-Yong, South Korean footballer
• 1980 –
  Locó, Angolan footballer

Who died on December 25?

• 795 –
  Pope Adrian I
• 1763 –
  Suraj Mal, Sinsiwar Jat ruler of Bharatpur (b. 1707)
• 1880 –
  Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss jurist (b. 1828)
• 1940 –
  Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1975 –
  Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
• 1989 –
  Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1916)
• 1989 –
  Nicolae Ceauşescu, former President of S.R.Romania (b. 1918)
• 1995 –
  Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (b. 1906)
• 2005 –
  Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer (b. 1918)
• 2007 –
  Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (b. 1927)