1855. Battle at the river Ingour; Omar Pasha with 20,000 Turks defeated 10,000 Russians.
NOVEMBER 6.
606 B. C. The memory of the book of Jeremiah torn and burnt by king Jehoiakim, was observed as a fast, on the 6th of the Hebrew month Caslew.
63 B. C. Cataline assembled the conspirators on the evening of this day, to fire the capital and cut off the principal citizens and the senate.
644. Omar I, the second caliph after Mahomet, assassinated. His reign was signalized by many important events. The most extraordinary success attended the arms of the new religion; 36,000 towns and villages were conquered; the Alexandrian library and 4,000 Christian temples were destroyed; 400 mosques were built, and the ancient canal between the Nile and the Red sea was restored.
1406. Pope Innocent VII died.
1457. Gutenberg ceded to Faust all the moulds, types, presses and utensils of the office, as surety for the sums advanced by the latter to carry on the business of printing and experimenting. The partnership was dissolved, and Gutenberg, with the assistance of Conrad Humery, opened another office in the same city.
1460. John Fastolff, a brave English general, died, aged 80. Shakspeare has abused the character of this brave, generous and wealthy man, under the name of Falstaff. It is impossible for two characters to be more at variance than the real and fictitious Falstaff.
1620. Richard Carew, an English antiquary, died. His memory is extravagantly lauded, as another Livy, &c.
1622. King James issued "a proclamation, prohibiting interloping and disorderly trading to New England, in America." This remarkable edict was intended to protect the trade of the colony, but so far from proving beneficial to the company, really brought on its dissolution.