533 CE
Battle of Tricamarum
Battle · North Africa
On this day
15 December
430 events in the atlas are dated to 15 December, from 19 CE to 2025. The best known come first; below them is every one, age by age, the most significant first.
- 430 events
- 19 – 2025 CE
The best known
From every age and part of the world1788
1788–89 United States presidential selection
Election · North America · 1788 – 1789
1894
First Italo-Ethiopian War
War · Sub-Saharan Africa · 1894 – 1896
1989
Romanian Revolution (1989)
Rebellion · Europe
2011
2008–2011 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
Event · Southeast Asia
2014
2014 Sydney hostage crisis
Natural disaster · Oceania
Antiquity
to 500 CE · 1 eventThe Middle Ages
501 – 1500 CE · 6 eventsEarly modern times
1501 – 1800 · 23 events- 17881788–89 United States presidential selectionElection · North America · 1788 – 1789
- 1796Expédition d'IrlandeBattle · Europe
- 1745Battle of KesselsdorfBattle · Europe
- 1749Third Javanese War of SuccessionWar · Southeast Asia · 1749 – 1757
- 1778Battle of St. LuciaBattle · Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
- 1786Founding of MilagroFounding · South America
- 1701Battle of TryszkiBattle · Europe
- 1526Siege of KamakuraSiege · East Asia
- 1650Bataille de Rethel-BeaulieuBattle · Europe
- 1764Founding of OstroveniFounding · Europe
The 19th century
1801 – 1900 · 35 events- 1894First Italo-Ethiopian WarWar · Sub-Saharan Africa · 1894 – 1896
- 1864Battle of NashvilleBattle · North America
- 1899Battle of ColensoBattle · Sub-Saharan Africa
- 18361836 U.S. Patent Office fireEvent · North America
- 1889Founding of MatsuyamaFounding · East Asia
- 1877Battle of AladzhaBattle · Middle East
- 1805Treaty of SchönbrunnTreaty · Europe
- 1803Capture of GawilghurBattle · South Asia
- 1835Fall of Coahuila y TejasCollapse · Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
- 1887Construction of Fukushima StationConstruction · East Asia
The 20th century
1901 – 2000 · 253 events- 1989Romanian Revolution (1989)Rebellion · Europe
- 1937Battle of TeruelBattle · Europe · 1937 – 1938
- 1942Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea HorseBattle · Oceania · 1942 – 1943
- 2000Ukraine without KuchmaProtest · Europe · 2000 – 2001
- 1943New Britain campaignWar · Oceania · 1943 – 1945
- 1989KLM Flight 867Accident · North America
- 19866th National Congress of the Communist Party of VietnamPolitical · Southeast Asia
- 1993Downing Street DeclarationTreaty
- 1995Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone TreatyTreaty · Southeast Asia
- 1954Founding of Netherlands AntillesFounding · South America
The 21st century
since 2001 · 112 events- 20142014 Sydney hostage crisisNatural disaster · Oceania
- 2013South Sudanese Civil WarWar · Sub-Saharan Africa · 2013 – 2020
- 20112008–2011 Cambodian–Thai border crisisEvent · Southeast Asia
- 2014Umbrella MovementEvent · East Asia
- 2003Operation All ClearEvent · 2003 – 2004
- 2023Killing of Alon Shamriz, Yotam Haim, and Samer TalalkaEvent · Middle East
- 20122012 Egyptian constitutional referendumElection · North Africa
- 2013Juba Nuer MassacreAttack · Sub-Saharan Africa
- 2014Loganair Flight 6780Accident · Europe
- 2019Shaheen Bagh protestsProtest · South Asia · 2019 – 2020
About the dates
Each event is listed under the date its sources give, as its page shows it. Before 1582, and in some countries later (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918), that is a date of the Julian calendar, as on Wikipedia’s pages for each day.