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December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 26 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations. [1] 633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville. [2]
December 5: Krampusnacht in parts of Central Europe Henry Knox's noble train of artillery 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus , giving Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
December 5: Krampusnacht in parts of Central Europe Henry Knox's noble train of artillery 1757 – Seven Years' War : Prussian troops under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces at the Battle of Leuthen .
Dec 5, 2012 · Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus. 1496 Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I. 1590 Niccolo Sfondrati chosen as Pope Gregory XIV. 1602 Giulio Caccini and Ottario Rinuccini's opera "Euridice" premieres at the Pitti Palace, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) Shakespeare's First Folio Sold.
December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of the year. Events. Up to 1900. 1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1484. Witchcraft condemned by Pope Innocent VIII. Innocent VIII condemned witchcraft this day in 1484 via papal bull, and subsequently he dispatched inquisitors to Germany to try witches and persecuted a chief exponent of Renaissance Platonism, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Zentralbibliothek, Zürich. Featured Biography. Walt Disney.
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which began in March.
