1851. Richard Cowling Taylor, an English naturalist and antiquary, died at Philadelphia, aged about 60.
1852. A violent storm at Athens; one of the columns of the temple of Jupiter Olympus overthrown.
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42 B. C. Battle of Philippi, and death of Marcus Junius Brutus. This eventful day threw into the hands of two autocratical magistrates, of no tried reputation, and rivals by nature, the universal rule, with the liberties of their country. There were just twenty days between the deaths of Cassius, "the last of the Romans," and his friend Brutus, in the two great battles of Philippi.
251. Valerian elected in full senate to the restored Roman censorship, an office which had dropt with the life of Titus, from the modesty of his successors. The Roman virtue stood below correction.
1492. Columbus discovered Cuba, and made a landing on the following day.
1553. Michael Servetus, a learned and ingenious Spaniard, burnt at Geneva by the Calvinists, for the heresy of Arianism.
1617. Ralph Winwood died; an English statesman, and secretary of state under James I.
1644. Second battle of Newberry, in England; the royalists under Charles I defeated by the parliament army. Night favored the escape of the vanquished.
1650. The prince of Orange died of the small pox.