On December 25
On December 25, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Charlemagne crowned Emperor of the Romans (800 CE).
On this day
On Christmas Day 800, during Mass at St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne 'Emperor of the Romans' (Imperator Romanorum).
Also this week in history (Dec 22 – Dec 28)
On 27 December 537 the emperor Justinian I inaugurated the rebuilt church of Hagia Sophia, the Church of Holy Wisdom, in Constantinople, less than six years after fire had destroyed its predecessor during the Nika riots of 532.
The Mau ("firmly held opinion") was a nonviolent independence movement that arose in Western Samoa against New Zealand's League of Nations mandate administration, drawing on earlier Mau a Pule resistance and uniting Samoan matai chiefs…
On 26 December 2004 a magnitude 9.1-9.3 megathrust earthquake ruptured the seafloor off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where the India Plate subducts beneath the Burma Plate.