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 — Kiev, the four-hundred-year-old mother of Rus cities, refuses to surrender and is stormed. Its last defenders die when the roof of the Church of the Tithes collapses over them. Six years later, a papal envoy counts two hundred houses still standing.
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— Thirteenth Amendment
6 Dec 1865 — The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States.” Slavery is ended in the constitutional text throughout the country, even as the struggle over the meaning of freedom begins.
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— Fall of Bucharest
6 Dec 1916 — Romania has been an Allied belligerent for three months when Falkenhayn and Mackensen converge on Bucharest from north and south. The remaining Romanian army spends the winter in Moldavia. For the rest of the war, Germany sends Romanian grain and oil west.
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