December 3

December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

915 – Pope John X crowned Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor.

1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.

1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden: French General Moreau decisively defeats the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war.

1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.

1834 – The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.

1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.

1898 – The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated an all-star collection of early football players 16-0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.

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December 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Dec 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec 4

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 20.

Saints

Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias) (635-605 BC)

Martyrs Agapius, Seleucus, and Mamas, Indus, Domna, Glycerius, and 40 Martyrs, in Sofianá.

Venerable Theodoulos (Theodoulus the Stylite), Eparch of Constantinople (440)

Venerable Theodoulos the Cyprian, monk.

Saint John the Silent (John Hesychastes), Bishop of Colonia (Taxara) in Armenia, and later a monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (558)(see also: March 30)

Hieromartyr Patriarch Theodore I of Alexandria, Archbishop of Alexandria (607-609)