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* [[December 1]] – [[Charles Dickens]] publishes the first installment of ''[[Great Expectations]]'' in his magazine ''[[All the Year Round]]''.
* [[December 7]] – After a fiercely contested campaign, [[Monier Monier-Williams]] [[Boden Professor of Sanskrit election, 1860|is elected]] as the new [[Boden Professor of Sanskrit]], at Oxford University.
* [[December 20]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[South Carolina in the American Civil War|South Carolina]] becomes the first state to secede from the United States.
*[[December 24]] – Mexico's interim president [[Miguel Miramón]] flees the country after being defeated in battle.<ref name="miramon">{{cite web|title=Miguel Miramón|url=https://presidentes.mx/miguel-miramon|website=Presidentes.mx|language=es|access-date=June 8, 2019|archive-date=June 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608191655/https://presidentes.mx/miguel-miramon|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured [[battleship]], the (British) [[HMS Warrior (1860)|HMS ''Warrior'']], is launched.
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