Editing December 25 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of [[Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91|''Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ'', BWV 91]], in [[Leipzig]], based on Luther's 1524 [[Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ|Christmas hymn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000115?lang=en|title=Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ [later version] BWV 91.2; BWV 91; BC A 9b|website=[[Bach Digital]]|year=2024|access-date=2024-12-13}}</ref>
*[[1758]] &ndash; [[Halley's Comet]] is sighted by [[Johann Georg Palitzsch]], confirming [[Edmund Halley]]'s prediction of its passage.  This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Messier's "Notes on my comets" |url=http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/history/notes-c.html |quote=It was discovered, [...] at Aprohlis, near Dresden, by a farmer named Palitzsch, on the 25th of December 1758[...]}}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Mapuche]]s in [[Colonial Chile|Chile]] launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the [[Mapuche uprising of 1766]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barros Arana |first=Diego |url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-9008.html |title=Historia General de Chile |publisher=[[Editorial Universitaria]] |year=2000 |edition=2 |volume=VI |location=Santiago, Chile |page=235 |language=es |author-link=Diego Barros Arana |orig-year=1886}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: General [[George Washington]] and the [[Continental Army]] [[George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River|cross the Delaware River]] at night to [[Battle of Trenton|attack]] [[Hessian (soldier)|Hessian]] forces serving [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] at [[Trenton, New Jersey]], the next day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Washington Crossing Historic Park |url=http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330060254/http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/ |archive-date=2010-03-30 |access-date=2010-01-27 |publisher=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission}}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Northwest Indian War]]: General [[Anthony Wayne|"Mad Anthony" Wayne]] and a [[Legion of the United States|300 man detachment]] identify the site of [[St. Clair's defeat|St. Clair's 1791 defeat]] by the large number of unburied human remains at modern [[Fort Recovery, Ohio]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 January 2021 |title=Corps of Discovery. United States Army. |url=https://history.army.mil/LC/The%20People/Frontier.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102142456/http://www.history.army.mil/LC/The%20People/Frontier.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 2, 2017 |access-date=2 July 2021 |website=U.S. Army Center of Military History}}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; Dr. [[Ephraim McDowell]] performs the first [[ovariotomy]], removing a 22-pound [[Neoplasm|tumor]].<ref name="PMID30670290">{{Cite journal |last=Cirocco |first=WC |date=March 2019 |title=The Christmas miracle of 1809: How a "backwoodsman without a diploma to practice" became the father of abdominal surgery. |url=https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(18)31710-0/fulltext |journal=American Journal of Surgery |volume=217 |issue=3 |pages=578–589 |doi=10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.01.003 |pmid=30670290 |s2cid=58947639 |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; Rev. [[Samuel Marsden]] holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at [[Rangihoua Bay]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Story: Missions and missionaries |encyclopedia=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/missions-and-missionaries/page-2 |access-date=6 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; The [[Handel and Haydn Society]], oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
*[[1826]] &ndash; The [[Eggnog Riot]] at the [[United States Military Academy]] concludes after beginning the previous evening.
*[[1831]] &ndash; The [[Baptist War|Great Jamaican Slave Revolt]] begins; up to 20% of [[Jamaica]]'s slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Mary |title=Slaves and Missionaries |date=1998 |publisher=Press University of the West Indies |isbn=9789766400453 |page=154}}</ref>
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Second Seminole War]]: American general [[Zachary Taylor]] leads 1,100 troops against the [[Seminole]]s at the [[Battle of Lake Okeechobee]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Katz |first=William Loren |title=Resistance To US Occupation, Florida, 1837 |url=http://www.williamlkatz.com/Essays/CurrentEvents/FloridaResistance.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026144304/http://www.williamlkatz.com/Essays/CurrentEvents/FloridaResistance.php |archive-date=26 October 2007 |access-date=September 6, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Pardons for ex-Confederates]]: United States President [[Andrew Johnson]] grants an unconditional [[pardon]] to all [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] veterans.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Randall |first1=J. G.|title=The Civil War and Reconstruction |last2=Donald |first2=David |date=1966 |publisher=D.C. Heath and Company |edition=2nd |pages=560{{hyphen}}561}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Wagner]]'s ''[[Siegfried Idyll]]'' is first performed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://francisbarnhart.com/projects/siegfried-idyll/|url-status=dead|title=The Siegfried Idyll: Jewel of the Wagner Romance|first=Francis|last=Barnhart|website=francisbarnhart.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211050734/http://francisbarnhart.com/projects/siegfried-idyll/|archive-date=2007-12-11|accessdate=2024-12-20|via=Wayback Machine}}</ref>