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- December 31, 1801 Heinrich Olbers observes Ceres very close to where Gauß predicted it would be.
- December 31, 1830 King Louis-Phillipe dissolves the Artillery of the National Guard. (This later leads to Évariste Galois being arrested on at least two separate occasions).
- December 31, 1894 Thomas Jan Stieltjes dies in Toulouse, France.
- December 31, 1917 Comptes Rendus publishes letters from Gaston Julia and Georges Humbert claiming that Julia had priority regarding a result on a topic of iteration for which Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou had also claimed credit.
