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• 16th December 1431: Henry VI became the only English monarch to be crowned King of France

  Henry was crowned by the Bishop of Paris, as the Archbishop of Reims was aligned with the French crown. Attendance was limited, and the event failed to generate significant support among the French ...

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• 15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

  Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster ...

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• 14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

  Amundsen’s team arrived five weeks ahead of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova ...

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• 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

  Drake’s fleet consisted of five ships, with the flagship Pelican later renamed Golden Hind, and it departed Plymouth on 13 ...

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• 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

  Literally translated as ‘Fount of Life’, Lebensborn was designed to harness apparent racial purity through the birth of children conceived between Aryan women and members of the SS, often as a result of extramarital ...

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