What happened on 5 December?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1791 Mozart's Requiem (unfinished) Mass for the dead left incomplete at Mozart's death; completed by Sussmayr.
2. 1933 End of US Prohibition 21st Amendment ends Prohibition.
3. 1955 Montgomery bus boycott Year-long boycott sparked by Rosa Parks; opening battle of the modern civil rights movement.
4. 1837 Berlioz's Requiem Massive funeral mass for the dead.
5. 1830 Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique Programme symphony depicting a poet's opium dreams of his beloved; defining work of musical Romanticism.
6. 1757 Battle of Leuthen Frederick's oblique attack defeats much larger Austrian army; embodies Prussian military art.
7. 1934 Turkish women gain the vote Atatürk's reforms grant Turkish women full suffrage, among the earliest in the world, part of the secular modernisation of the republic.
8. 1901 Born: Werner Heisenberg German physicist of the uncertainty principle, founding figure of quantum mechanics.
9. 1560 Catherine de' Medici becomes regent of France On Francis II's death, Catherine de' Medici takes the regency for the ten-year-old Charles IX, beginning three decades at the centre of French royal policy.
10. 1812 Napoleon abandons the Grande Armée At Smorgonie, Napoleon hands the wreck of his army to Murat and races for Paris by sledge and carriage, travelling incognito to outrun the news of the catastrophe. Of the 600,000 w
11. 1905 Henry Campbell-Bannerman's premiership A Liberal landslide brings self-government to South Africa and old-age pensions within reach.
12. 1938 Albert Namatjira's first solo exhibition Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira's Melbourne exhibition sells out - landmark of Indigenous Australian art.
13. 1839 Born: George Armstrong Custer Flamboyant Civil War cavalry general turned Indian-fighter, whose reckless attack at the Little Bighorn ended in the annihilation of his command — 'Custer's Last Stand', the most m