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

• 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.
• 1000 –
  The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
• 1100 –
  Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
• 1599 –
  The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
• 1776 –
  George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain’s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1914 –
  World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
• 1941 –
  Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
• 1963 –
  Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
• 1968 –
  42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
• 1974 –
  Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.

Who were born on December 25?

• 1250 –
  John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. c. 1305)
• 1829 –
  Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (d. 1892)
• 1887 –
  Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)
• 1919 –
  Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)
• 1935 –
  Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (d. 2009)
• 1942 –
  Francoise Durr, French tennis player
• 1943 –
  Hanna Schygulla, German actress
• 1944 –
  Kenny Everett, British entertainer (d. 1995)
• 1958 –
  Konstantin Kinchev, Russian singer (Alisa)
• 1984 –
  Georgia Moffett, British actress

Who died on December 25?

• 1784 –
  Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
• 1824 –
  Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764)
• 1868 –
  Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)
• 1961 –
  Owen Brewster, American politician (b. 1888)
• 1993 –
  Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
• 1998 –
  Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
• 1999 –
  Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2005 –
  Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
• 2010 –
  Carlos Andrés Pérez, former President of Venezuela (b. 1922)
• 2011 –
  Ben Breedlove, YouTube Celebrity (b. 1993)