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This is a list of selected December 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1492Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. article says Dec 25, but not cited
1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati became Pope Gregory XIV, succeeding Pope Urban VII who died two months earlier. needs more footnotes
1757Seven Years' War: Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine at the Battle of Leuthen in Leuthen, present-day Poland. refimprove
1766 – In London, James Christie founded what is today the world's leading art business and fine arts auction house. refimprove section
1776 – The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the first collegiate organization to adopt a Greek-letter name, was founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. multiple issues
1791Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died without completing his Requiem. needs more footnotes, also should find a better date for this, as this sneaks in Mozart's death around the rule of featuring natural deaths only on centennials
1958Subscriber trunk dialling was inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she dialled a phone call from Bristol to Edinburgh. refimprove

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Notes

December 5: International Volunteer Day; St Nicholas's Eve in various European countries; The King's birthday, National Day and Father's Day in Thailand (1927)

Henry Knox's noble train of artillery
Henry Knox's noble train of artillery
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