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- 786
- The first mention of the settlement of Wendlingen, present-day Sankt Georgen, Germany is made.
- 1635
- The municipality of San Vicente in El Salvador is founded.
- 1791
- The British Parliament splits the province of Quebec into Lower and Upper Canada.
- 1878
- A fire that started late on Christmas Day sweeps through Hong Kong, destroying hundreds of buildings including the Hotel d'Europe.
- 1990
- The Supreme Soviet formally dissolves the Soviet Union, one day after the resignation of President Gorbachev.
- 2012
- The Beijing–Shijiazhuang high-speed railway is opened.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on December 26, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on December 26 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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We appreciate your help in curating these events from OpenHistoricalMap data. Items should be based on fully qualified start_date=* and end_date=* tags, plus any other metadata tagged on features in OpenHistoricalMap. To the extent possible, the list should feature a wide range of years and include events from different continents.