1847. A volcano burst forth with great violence on one of the high peaks of Lookout mountain, in the Alleghanian chain, in Georgia.
1847. The corner stone of a monument to the memory of general Washington laid in the city of New York.
1848. The Mormon temple at Nauvoo was fired by an incendiary, and totally destroyed.
1849. Frederick Strickland, a young Englishman, son of Thomas Strickland, bart., perished in the snow near the Notch house, in New Hampshire.
1852. A decree of the president issued for the convoking of the French senate for the purpose of deliberating on the restoration of the empire.
1853. Ichabod Bartlett, a New Hampshire statesman, died at Portsmouth, aged 67.
OCTOBER 20.
480 B. C. The battle of Salamis is, by respectable authority, placed upon this day. (See [Sept. 30].)
1422. Charles VI of France, died. He succeeded to the kingdom at the age of 13, and during a reign of 42 years the kingdom, by foreign invasions and internal factions, was ruined, and passed into the hands of the English.
1524. Thomas Linacre, a learned English physician and divine, died. He was the best Greek and Latin scholar of his age, and founded the college of physicians.