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- 1726
- Montevideo in Uruguay is founded.
- 1874
- Nanaimo becomes the sixth incorporated municipality in British Columbia.
- 1886
- A new bridge is formally opened in Ashfield, New South Wales.
- 1908
- Train service is extended to Antipolo, Philippines.
- 1951
- The Kingdom of Libya becomes independent, combining the Emirate of Cyrenaica with British-administered Tripolitania and the French-administered Fezzan.
- 1969
- Cine Condal opens in Burgos, Spain.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on December 24, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on December 24 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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