This week's installment of a sampling of events occurring throughout history for this week of December.
December 9
1212 AD - Frederik II crowns himself the Roman Catholic King
1640 AD - Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from the Massachusetts Colony after declaring himself free of
original sin
1658 AD - Dutch troops occupy the harbor city of Quilon (Coilan) in India
December 10
1520 AD - Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant
1582 AD - France begins use of the Gregorian Calendar
December 11
1282 AD - Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, is assassinated
1572 AD - Spanish troops begin the siege of Haalem
1620 AD - 103 pilgrims on board the ship Mayflower land at Plymouth Rock in what is now Massachusetts
December 13
1294-AD - St. Celestine V abdicates as pope after only 5 months
1577 AD - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
1636 AD - the Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes 3 militia regiments to defend against the Pequot
Indians--recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard
1642 AD - New Zealand is discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1643 AD - the Battle of Alton is fought in the English Civil War
December 14
1287 AD - Storms cause St. Lucia's flood, which collapses the Zuyderzee (Netherlands) seawall, resulting
in the death of an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 people in the 5th largest flood of recorded history
1547 AD - Mary Stuart succeeds her father, James V, and becomes Mary Queen of Scots at 6 days old
1656 AD - Artificial pearls are first manufactured in Paris of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
December 15
1256 AD - The Mongols capture and destroy the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran
1612 AD - The Andromeda Galaxy is first observed through a telescope
1664 AD - the British colonize what is now Connecticut
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