December 6 in History

6 December in History – 117 years ago

Consolidation of Ethiopia

Sub-Saharan Africa 1907: Consolidation of Ethiopia

By playing the European powers against one another as well as providing support to their... SEE MORE…

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Historical Atlas of Asia Pacific 1941: Eve of Pearl Harbor
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Eve of Pearl Harbor
Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June, but Japan declined to join her ally, resolving instead...
Historical Atlas of Asia Pacific 1911: Chinese Revolution
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Historical Atlas of Sub-Saharan Africa 1907: Consolidation of Ethiopia
Sub-Saharan Africa 1907
Consolidation of Ethiopia
By playing the European powers against one another as well as providing support to their wars in...
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In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening them...
 

on 6 December 402

Western imperial court moves to Ravenna*

All Events on 6 December

ends   2016
Daesh defeated in Libya
  1998
Chávez elected president of Venezuela
  1917
Finland declares independence from Russia
  1916
Central Powers occupy Bucharest
ends   1914
Villa & Zapata take Mexico City
  1907
Britain and Ethiopia agree on East Africa border
ends   1844
Revolt overthrows Santa Anna
  1521
Cortés refounds Tenochtitlan as Mexico City*
  402
Western imperial court moves to Ravenna*
  376
Tervingi revolt, defeating Romans at Marcianople*
ends   80
Pacorus II overthrows Vologases II of Parthia*
  37
Caligula imprisons Mithridates of Armenia*
*Actual date uncertain; set to 6 December for purposes of Omniatlas

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