What happened on 9 December?

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

1. 1987 First Intifada Palestinian uprising in West Bank and Gaza against Israeli occupation; lasts nearly six years; sets stage for Oslo Accords.
2. 1917 Capture of Jerusalem (Allenby) British forces take Jerusalem from the Ottomans.
3. 1824 Battle of Ayacucho The decisive battle ending Spanish rule in South America.
4. 1905 Separation of Church and State in France Loi de séparation des Églises et de l'État establishes French secularism (laïcité).
5. 536 Belisarius enters Rome Sixty years after the last western emperor fell, an eastern Roman army marches through the Asinarian Gate and Rome is Roman again — taken by a general with 5,000 men and held, thro
6. 1961 Tanganyika becomes independent Britain hands over Tanganyika peacefully to Nyerere's TANU; a torch is lit on the summit of Kilimanjaro.
7. 1854 Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade 'Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred' — written weeks after Balaclava, the poem that turned a blunder into a legend.
8. 2012 Messi scores 91 goals in a year Messi breaks Gerd Müller's 40-year-old record for goals in a calendar year, finishing 2012 with 91 for club and country.