December

December is the 12th and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. right|thumb|December, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry thumb |In recent decades, the number of warm temperature records in December has outpaced cold temperature records over a growing portion of Earth's surface. thumb |Chart shows changes in global average temperature annually in December of each year

The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower, the parent body of which is 3200 Phaethon (which is thought to be an Apollo asteroid with a "rock comet" orbit). Because of this, it would make this shower, along with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. The meteors from this shower are slow; they can be seen in December and usually peak around December 4–16, with the date of highest intensity being the morning of December 14. Current showers produce up to 120–160 meteors per hour under optimal conditions, peaking at around 2:00 or 3:00. Geminids were firs

carrack used by Christopher Columbus

The Quadrantids (QUA) are a meteor shower that peaks in early January and whose radiant lies in the constellation Boötes. The zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of this shower can be as high as that of two other reliably rich meteor showers, the Perseids in August and the Geminids in December, yet Quadrantid meteors are not seen as often as those of the two other showers because the time frame of the peak is exceedingly narrow, sometimes lasting only hours. Moreover, the meteors are quite faint, with mean apparent magnitudes between 3.0 and 6.0.

Nivôse (; also Nivose) was the fourth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word nivosus 'snowy'.

The Ursid (URS) meteor activity begins annually around December 17 and runs for over a week, until the 25th or 26th. This meteor shower is named for its radiant point, which is located near the star Beta Ursae Minoris (Kochab) in the constellation Ursa Minor.

Frimaire () was the third month in the French Republican calendar. The month was named after the French word frimas 'frost'.

The Andromedids meteor shower is associated with Biela's Comet, the showers occurring as Earth passes through old streams left by the comet's tail. The comet was observed to have broken up by 1846; further drift of the pieces by 1852 suggested the moment of breakup was in either 1842 or early 1843, when the comet was near Jupiter. The breakup led to particularly spectacular showers in subsequent cycles (particularly in 1872 and 1885).

Albanian song contest, organised by the Albanian national broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH)

time ball located in New York City's Times Square

December 1717 North Sea storm

celebration on December 8 in Lyon, France

solstice that occurs each December (winter solstice in Northern Hemisphere and summer solstice in Southern Hemisphere)

meteor shower

thumb|Dance of the Black Hats with Drums, Paro, Bhutan|Paro, April 2006 thumb|Dance of the Black Hats, Paro Tsechu festival of dances, 2006 A tshechu (, literally "tenth day") is any of the annual religious Bhutanese festivals held in each district or dzongkhag of Bhutan on the tenth day of a month of the lunar Tibetan calendar. The month depends on the place. Tshechus are religious festivals of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

annual yacht race from Sydney to Hobart

Japanese event

meteor shower

1776 military operation

'''''L'Escalade, or Fête de l'Escalade''''' (from escalade, the act of scaling defensive walls), is an annual festival in Geneva, Switzerland, held each December commemorating the defeat of an attempt to conquer the Protestant city-state by the Catholic Duchy of Savoy in 1602. The celebrations and other commemorative activities are usually held on 12 December or the closest weekend.

The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower, first noticed by observers in New Zealand, Australia, the Indian Ocean, and South Africa during an outburst of approximately 100 meteors an hour that occurred during December 1956. Like other meteor showers, the Phoenicids get their name from the location of their radiant, which is in the constellation Phoenix. They are active from 29 November to 9 December, with a peak occurring around 5/6 December each year, and are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere.

conclave

meteor shower

scientific lecture series aimed at children

annual festival in Nagaland, India

time period in which Hollywood studios release the films they consider most likely to be critically acclaimed, hoping to win at the Academy Awards

description of non-standard dates used in calendars for various reasons

annual banquet after the Nobel Prize ceremony

The Monocerotids refers to two separate meteor showers originating from the constellation of Monoceros. The Alpha Monocerotids, the more prominent of the two showers, takes place in November, while the second, lesser-known December Monocerotids shower takes place in December and appears to have an orbit similar to that of comet C/1917 F1 (Mellish).

1554 battle

battle of flour and eggs in Spain

Chichibu Shrine's annual festival celebrated on the nights of December 1-6

road running event in Houilles, France

annual religious congregation

speculative archetype of modern studies of folklore and mythology which has been popularized in some Neopagan religions

traditional Advent novena in Madeira and Portugal