1492: 1st Spanish settlement La Navidad in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas in Haiti)
1792: Trial of French King Louis XVI, court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze
1825: Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December]
2004: 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and edges of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people
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