MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · December 6

THE DAY IN HISTORY · DECEMBER 6

December 6 in history

1240 — The sack 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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1865 — The 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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1916 — The 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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