| Dec 1934 | Bill & Lois start attending Oxford Group meetings. |
| Dec 1934 to May 1935 | Bill works with alcoholics, but fails to sober any of them. Lois reminds him HE is sober. |
| Dec 1938 | Twelve Steps written. |
| Nov/Dec 1939 | Akron group withdrawals from association with Oxford Group. Meetings moved from T Henry & Clarence Williams to Dr Bob and other member?s homes. |
| Dec 1939 | First AA group in mental institution, Rockland State Hospital, NY. |
| Dec 1939 | 1st home meeting in Los Angeles at Kaye M.’s house. |
| Dec 1939 | Matt Talbot Club has 88 members, uses wagons to collect old furniture to recondition & sell, not A.A., used A.A. program, material, marked 1st effort reach alcoholics outside married middle-class category. |
| Dec 1940 | 1st AA group formed in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Dec 1940 | Group started Ashtabula, Ohio due to Plain Dealer articles. A.A. Cleveland has about 30 groups. |
| Dec 1948 | Dr. Bob’s last major talk, in Detroit. |
| Dec 1950 | Grapevine article signed by both Bill and Dr Bob recommend establishing AA General Service Conference. |
| Dec 1955 | ‘Man on the Bed’ painting by Robert M. first appeared in Grapevine. Painting originally called ‘Came to Believe’ |
| Dec 1982 | Nell Wing retires from GSO after 35 years of service. |
| Dec 1, 1940 | Chicago Daily Tribune begins a series of articles on AA by Nall Hamilton. |
| Dec 5, 1985 | Dave B, founder of Montreal Group dies weeks before 50th anniversary. His story added to the 4th Edition Big Book. |
| Dec 6, 1939 | Bert the Tailor lends Works Publishing $1000. |
| Dec 6, 1979 | Akron Beacon reports death of Henrietta Sieberling. |
| Dec 7, 1949 | Sister Ignatia received Poverello Medal on behalf of A.A. |
| Dec 10, 1975 | Birds of a Feather AA group for pilots is formed. |
| Dec 11, 1934 | Bill admitted to Towns Hosp 4th/last time (fall ’33, ’34 in summer, midsummer and final admittance). |
| Dec 11, 1941 | Dallas Morning News reports 1st AA group formed in Dallas. |
| Dec 12, 1934 | Bill has Spiritual Experience at Towns Hospital. |
| Dec 12, 1937 | Bill meets with Rockefeller Foundation and tries to get money. |
| Dec 13, 1937 | Rockland State Mental Hospital takes patients to meeting in New Jersey. |
| Dec 13 or 14, 1934 | Ebby visited Bill at hospital, brought William James’s book, “Varieties of Religious Experience”. |
| Dec 19, 1939 | Los Angeles hold their 1st AA meeting there. |
| Dec 20, 1945 | Rowland H dies (he carried the Oxford Group message to Ebby). |
| Dec 27, 1893 |