December 13

December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 18 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600 1294 ??? Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. 1545 ??? The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. 1577 ??? Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. 1601???1900 1623 ??? The Plymouth Colony establishes the system of trial by 12-men jury in the American colonies. 1636 ??? The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians, a date now considered the founding of the National Guard of the United States. 1642 ??? Abel Tasman...

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