What are the important events that happened on December 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 19 is the 353^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 6, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 490,584 hours 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 ‘trihectapentacontatrigon’ day.

Sagittarius 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 60 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 4,746 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 19 Historical Events

• 324 –
  Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
• 1490 –
  Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
• 1606 –
  The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
• 1843 –
  Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol goes on sale.
• 1900 –
  Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
• 1907 –
  A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
• 1912 –
  William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
• 1964 –
  The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyen Khanh dissolved the High National Council and arrested some of the members.
• 1975 –
  John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of The United States Supreme Court.
• 2001 –
  A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.

Who were born on December 19?

• 1587 –
  Dorothea Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1645)
• 1796 –
  Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (d. 1873)
• 1875 –
  Carter Woodson, American historian and author, founder of Black History Month (d. 1950)
• 1923 –
  Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
• 1925 –
  William Schutz, American psychologist (d. 2002)
• 1934 –
  Al Kaline, American baseball player
• 1944 –
  Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist, conservationist and politician
• 1957 –
  Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
• 1969 –
  Richard Hammond, English television presenter
• 1970 –
  Tyson Beckford, American model

Who died on December 19?

• 1327 –
  Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
• 1751 –
  Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
• 1927 –
  Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian independence movement figure (b. 1900)
• 1982 –
  Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 –
  Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
• 2001 –
  Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (b. 1901)
• 2004 –
  Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
• 2008 –
  Carol Chomsky, American linguist (b. 1930)
• 2008 –
  Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)
• 2008 –
  Kenny Cox, American jazz musician (b. 1940)