What happened on 6 December?

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

1. 1916 David Lloyd George's premiership The man who won the war takes Britain through victory, Versailles, votes for women and the Irish Treaty.
2. 1865 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in US US slavery formally abolished by constitutional amendment.
3. 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty The treaty ends the war and creates the Irish Free State, while letting Northern Ireland opt out.
4. 1922 Irish Free State established The Irish Free State comes into being a year after the Anglo-Irish Treaty, as a self-governing dominion; Northern Ireland opts out the next day.
5. 1745 The Jacobites turn back at Derby A hundred and twenty-five miles from a panicking London — the king's yacht loaded, the Bank paying out in sixpences — the chiefs overrule their prince: no English Jacobites have ri
6. 1914 Villa and Zapata take Mexico City With Huerta beaten and the victors split, the two peasant armies of the revolution ride into the capital together — Villa in the presidential chair for the photograph, Zapata wary
7. 1648 Pride's Purge The New Model Army purges Parliament of MPs opposed to trying the King, leaving the Rump Parliament.
8. 1992 Babri Masjid demolition Hindu nationalists destroy the 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya; communal riots follow.
9. 1917 Halifax explosion Munitions-ship collision devastates Halifax; the largest man-made explosion of its time (~2,000 dead).
10. 1917 Finland declares independence As Russia dissolves into revolution, Finland's parliament declares independence; a brutal civil war follows within weeks, but the state holds.
11. 1998 Hugo Chávez elected in Venezuela Chávez wins the presidency, launching a 'Bolivarian Revolution' that reshaped Venezuela and the Latin American left.
12. 2001 Tora Bora battle US and Afghan forces assault al-Qaeda's mountain refuge in eastern Afghanistan; bin Laden escapes into Pakistan.
13. 1890 Split of the Irish Parliamentary Party Named in Captain O'Shea's divorce and disowned by Gladstone, Parnell refuses to stand down; after six days of bitter debate in Committee Room 15, most of his party walks out — the
14. 1273 Aquinas lays down his pen After an experience at Mass in Naples, Aquinas stops work on the Summa Theologica: all he has written, he says, 'seems like straw'. He dies three months later.
15. 1884 Representation of the People Act 1884 Third Reform Act extends male householder franchise to the counties; ~60% of adult men can now vote.
16. 1846 Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust Berlioz's 'dramatic legend' after Goethe, with its Hungarian March and headlong ride to the abyss, plays to a half-empty Opéra-Comique and leaves him deep in debt.