Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 28
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December 28: Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836); Day of the Holy Innocents in Western Christianity
- 1768 – Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom in the new capital at Thonburi, present-day Thailand.
- 1836 – At the Old Gum Tree near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear-Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British province of South Australia.
- 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Messina, Italy, killing more than 100,000 people.
- 1918 – Irishwoman Constance Markiewicz (pictured) became the first female Member of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons, although she never served.
- 1943 – World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division captured the Italian town of Ortona.