Editing December 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1660]] &ndash; A woman (either [[Margaret Hughes]] or [[Anne Marshall]]) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of [[Desdemona]] in a production of Shakespeare's play ''[[Othello]]''.
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Pelucones|Conservative]] [[Santiago]]-based government troops defeat rebels at the [[Battle of Loncomilla]], signaling the end of the [[1851 Chilean Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite book | isbn = 978-956-282-232-9 | title = Historia del pueblo mapuche: Siglo XIX y XX | language = es | trans-title = Mapuche History: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | last1 = Bengoa | first1 = José | author-link1 = José Bengoa | year = 2000 | orig-year = 1985 | edition = 6th | publisher = [[LOM Ediciones]] | location = [[Santiago de Chile]] | url = {{google books|id=k_E3aAiunm8C|plainurl=yes}} | series = Biblioteca del bicentenario  | pages =163–165  }}</ref>
*[[1854]] &ndash; In his [[Apostolic constitution]] ''[[Ineffabilis Deus]]'', [[Pope Pius IX]] proclaims the [[dogmatic definition]] of [[Immaculate Conception]], which holds that the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] was conceived free of [[Original Sin]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; Between two and three thousand churchgoers die during the [[Church of the Company Fire]]. Deemed as probably the largest single building fire by number of victims in modern history,<ref>{{cite book |last=Lambert |first=David |title= Repairing the Damage. Fires & Floods |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2DK6tElfKswC |access-date=22 December 2015 |date=2003 |publisher=GRAFO, S.A |location=Bilbao |isbn=0-237-51798-1 |chapter=Chapter two: Cities on Fire - Blazing buildings |page=12 |quote=Perhaps the deadliest of all church fire disasters occurred in 1863, in a Jesuit church in Santiago, Chile. Some records say that 2500 people perished}}</ref> it began at the start of a [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] held at the Church of the [[Society of Jesus]] in [[Santiago]], [[Chile]], during the celebration of the recently proclaimed [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius IX]] promulgates the encyclical ''[[Quanta cura]]'' and its appendix, the ''[[Syllabus of Errors]]'', outlining the authority of the [[Catholic Church]] and condemning various [[liberalism|liberal]] ideas.