THE DAY IN HISTORY · DECEMBER 6
December 6 in history
What happened on December 6: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1240, 1865 and 1916, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Siege of Kiev
6 Dec 1240 — The mother of Rus cities, four hundred years old, refuses surrender and is stormed; the last defenders die under the collapsing roof of the Church of the Tithes. Six years later a papal envoy counts two hundred houses standing. Remember Kiev.
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— Thirteenth Amendment
6 Dec 1865 — Ratified: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States.” Slavery is dead in constitutional text, everywhere, forever — and the struggle over what freedom means begins at once.
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— Fall of Bucharest
6 Dec 1916 — Three months after Romania joins the Allies, Falkenhayn and Mackensen converge on its capital from north and south. The rump army winters in Moldavia; Germany spends the rest of the war running Romanian grain and oil west.
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