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Historical Events that Happened on Christmas Day
Christmas Day Quiz
- Hailed as a triumph of scientific reasoning because it was predicted, what appeared in the sky on Christmas night, 1758?
- William the Conqueror was crowned at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066. Who did he defeat at the Battle of Hastings?
- Which legendary actor and film maker passed away on Christmas Day 1977?
- George Washington guided 24,000 troops across which river on Christmas Day in 1776?
- Who in 1991 resigned as leader of the Soviet Union?
- Known as the 'Father of Europe', who was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD?
- Which ship steered by a cabin boy run aground on a sandbank near Haiti and sank on Christmas Day, 1492?
- In which year did opposing German and British troops hold a Christmas Truce in no man's land?
- Name the first Christian emperor under which the first recorded celebration of Christmas occured in Rome on 25 December 336 AD?
- Which Apollo spacecraft was first to orbit the moon during the Christmas holiday period of 1968?
Answers
- Halley's Comet (confirming Edmund Halley's prediction)
- Harold II
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
- The Delaware River
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Charlemagne
- Santa Maria (Christopher Columbus’ flagship)
- 1914
- Constantine I
- Apollo 8