What happened on 12 December?

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

1. 2015 Paris Agreement on climate Almost every country agrees to keep global warming below 2°C, aiming for 1.5°C.
2. 1915 Born: Frank Sinatra American singer and actor; defining popular vocalist of the mid-20th century.
3. 1864 War of the Triple Alliance Paraguay fights Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay; perhaps the deadliest war in Latin American history.
4. 1936 The Xi'an Incident Ordered to fight Communists while Japan swallows the north, the Manchurian marshal Zhang Xueliang instead kidnaps his own commander-in-chief. Chiang is released only after agreeing
5. 1911 Delhi Durbar of 1911 George V is proclaimed Emperor of India and announces the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi.
6. 1942 Winter Storm fails to reach the pocket Manstein's relief drive claws to within 30 miles of the encircled Sixth Army — whose 250,000 men are living on Göring's broken promise of supply by air — and is stopped. Paulus, fo
7. 1964 Presidency of Jomo Kenyatta Kenya's founding president: land settlement, one-party drift and a long balancing act between ethnic blocs.
8. 1964 Jomo Kenyatta becomes Kenya's first president Kenyatta leads Kenya to independence and serves as first president from 1964.
9. 1899 Churchill's escape from a Boer prison As a young war correspondent, Churchill is captured and then daringly escapes, making his name in Britain.
10. 1901 Marconi's transatlantic radio signal Marconi receives the first transatlantic wireless signal, proving radio could span oceans and shrinking the world.
11. 627 Battle of Nineveh (627) Heraclius's decisive victory over Persia recovers the True Cross and exhausts both empires on the eve of Islam.
12. 1098 The atrocity at Ma'arra After storming the Syrian town of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, starving crusaders massacre the inhabitants — and, by their own chroniclers' horrified admission, eat some of the dead. In Ara
13. 2015 Saudi women vote and stand for office Women cast ballots and run for the first time in Saudi municipal elections.
14. 1863 Born: Edvard Munch Norwegian Expressionist painter best known for The Scream.