1814. Steam frigate Fulton launched at New York.
1814. The sloop of war Peacock, Capt. Warrington, returned from a cruise of 147 days, during which she had captured and destroyed 14 British vessels.
1824. Charles Pinckney, an American orator and statesman, died. He was a patriot of the revolution, and a member of the convention which framed the constitution.
1825. The first boat on the Erie canal, from Albany, reached Buffalo, on which occasion a celebration took place.
1828. Luke Hansard, a very eminent English printer, died; distinguished also for his piety.
1831. Riots at Bristol, England, during which the jails were broken open and burnt, the mansion house and custom house destroyed, the toll-gates pulled down, and many private houses plundered and set on fire, by which some hundreds of people were burnt to death.
1841. Thomas Philips, an eminent English vocalist, died by a rail road accident, aged 66.
1842. Allan Cunningham, an eminent Scottish poet, died in London, aged 56.
1850. The statue of John C. Calhoun, which had been lost by the wreck of a vessel, was recovered almost without injury.
1850. The Portuguese frigate Donna Maria II, of 32 guns, accidentally blown up in the harbor of Macao, and completely destroyed; of 244 men on board, 188 perished.