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December 25

4 sourced moments from December 25 in history: Charlemagne was crowned emperor in 800, but not 'Holy Roman'; Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642 (Old Style); Enemy soldiers stopped fighting to share Christmas in 1914, plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on December 25

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1991 History · Modern

Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the Soviet Union dissolved

On Christmas Day 1991 the Soviet president resigned on live television, and the red flag came down over the Kremlin for the last time.

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1914 History · War & Conflict

Enemy soldiers stopped fighting to share Christmas in 1914

On the first Christmas of the First World War, British and German troops climbed out of their trenches to meet in no man's land.

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1642 Science · Physics

Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642 (Old Style)

Newton arrived at Woolsthorpe on 25 December 1642 by England's calendar, three months after his father's death, and not, as the trivia goes, the year Galileo died.

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800 History · Medieval

Charlemagne was crowned emperor in 800, but not 'Holy Roman'

Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day 800. Byzantium took twelve years to accept it.

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