1849. A remarkable meteoric stone fell at Charlotte, North Carolina.
1850. Queen Isabella opened the Cortez at Madrid in the new palace on the Plaza de Cervantes.
1855. Rivas sworn into office as president of Nicaragua, Walker declining in his favor at Grenada.
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NOVEMBER 1.
51 B. C. Cicero sat down before Pindenissum, a city in Cilicia.
79. Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by an eruption of Vesuvius.
1290. The persons of all the English Jews, 16,511, were banished, and their estates and treasures confiscated to the crown.