ante diem vii idus decembres
- 424 B.C. — accession of Darius II (according to one reckoning)
- 424 B.C. — battle of Amphipolis (according to one reckoning)
- 424 B.C. — battle of Delium (according to one reckoning)
- 43 B.C. — death of Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) as he half-heartedly fled the proscription of Marcus Antonius et al.
- 1985 — death of Robert Graves (I Claudius, among others)