Editing December 14 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1751]] &ndash; The [[Theresian Military Academy]] is founded in [[Wiener Neustadt]], Austria.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Király|first1=Béla K.|last2=Rothenberg|first2=Gunther E.|title=War and Society in East Central Europe|location=New York|publisher=Brooklyn College Press|date=1988|oclc=63437018|page=99}}</ref>
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father]] [[Alexander Hamilton]] marries [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]] at the [[Schuyler Mansion]] in [[Albany, New York]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Newton|first=Michael E.|title=Discovering Hamilton: New Discoveries in the Lives of Alexander Hamilton, His Family, Friends, and Colleagues, From Various Archives Around the World|location=Phoenix, Ariz.|publisher=Eleftheria Publishing|date=2019|isbn=9780982604045|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5oOiDwAAQBAJ|page=250}}</ref>
*[[1782]] &ndash; The [[Montgolfier brothers]] first test fly an unmanned [[hot air balloon]] in France; it floats nearly {{convert|2.5|km|mi|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gillispie|first=Charles Coulston|title=The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784: With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads|location=Princeton, N.J.|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=2014|isbn=9780691613321|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gNX_AwAAQBAJ|page=21}}</ref>
*[[1812]] &ndash; The [[French invasion of Russia]] comes to an end as the remnants of the [[Grande Armée]] are expelled from Russia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hartley|first=Janet M.|chapter=War, Economy and Utopianism: Russia After the Napoleonic Era|title=War, Demobilization and Memory The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions|editor-last1=Forrest|editor-first1=Alan|editor-last2=Hagemann|editor-first2=Karen|editor-last3=Rowe|editor-first3=Michael|location=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|date=2016|isbn=9781137406491|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xa7tCwAAQBAJ|page=84}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[War of 1812]]: The [[Royal Navy]] [[Battle of Lake Borgne|seizes control]] of [[Lake Borgne]], [[Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Office of the Chief of Naval Operations|title=Riverine Warfare: The U.S. Navy's Operations on Inland Waters|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Naval history Division, United States Navy|date=1968|oclc=712698|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeZHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP1|page=11}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Alabama]] becomes the 22nd [[U.S. state]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Herbert James|title=Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State|location=Tuscaloosa|publisher=The University of Alabama Press|date=2018|isbn=9780817319830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ys9ZDwAAQBAJ|page=86}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; The [[Toledo War]] unofficially ends as the "Frostbitten Convention" votes to accept Congress' terms for admitting [[Michigan]] as a U.S. state.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fuller|first=George Newman|title=Historic Michigan" Land of the Great Lakes|location=Dayton, Ohio|publisher=National Historical Association|date=1924|oclc=632517669|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRwFtBSbFoYC|pages=63–65}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] victory under General [[James Longstreet]] at the [[Battle of Bean's Station]] in [[East Tennessee]] ends the [[Knoxville Campaign]], but achieves very little as Longstreet returns to [[Virginia]] next spring.<ref>{{cite web|title=Battle of Bean's Station|url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/battle-of-beans-station/|author=King, Spurgeon|website= Tennessee Encyclopedia|date= October 8, 2017|access-date= December 7, 2020}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; The [[Glasgow Subway|Glasgow Underground Railway]] is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wills|first=Elspeth|title=Scottish Firsts: A Celebration of Innovation and Achievement|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|date=2002|isbn=9781840186116|page=126}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Quantum mechanics]]: [[Max Planck]] presents a theoretical derivation of his [[Planck's law|black-body radiation law (quantum theory)]] at the Physic Society in Berlin.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=22|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>