1853. A party of 45 men under colonel Walker, sailed from San Francisco for the purpose of establishing a republic in lower California.
1854. The allies opened their first fire from the fleet and batteries upon Sebastopol. The loss of the Russians was 500 killed; of the allies 90, and 300 wounded.
OCTOBER 18.
447 B. C. Battle of Coronea; the Bœotians gained a great and most important victory over the Athenians. Clinias, the father of Alcibiades, and Tolmides, fell.
33. Agrippina, the virtuous wife of Germanicus Cæsar, died in exile of starvation. She was banished after the death of her husband.
1216. John (Lackland), king of England, died, aged 47. No prince in English history has been transmitted to posterity in darker colors; ingratitude, cruelty, and perfidy, were habitual in his character.
1547. James Sadolet, a polite and learned Italian writer and cardinal, died.
1564. Captain John Hawkins sailed from Plymouth, England, with four sail for the African coast; which was the first slave trade adventure, and the opening of that infernal commerce. The negroes were taken to Hispaniola, and sold to the Spaniards.
1605. John Riolan died; a Paris physician and writer on anatomy and medicine.
1631. Corn made a legal tender in Massachusetts, unless money or beaver were expressly stipulated.