1797. Joseph Milner, a learned Scottish divine and historian, died, aged 54.
1802. George Romney died; an eminent English painter.
1811. Frederick James Bast, an eminent German scholar, died. He took advantage of a diplomacy at Paris to make some valuable researches among the treasures of the Vatican which had recently been transported there.
1812. The Cossacks under Platoff fell in with 12 pieces of French cannon, and an immense train of carriages filled with plunder, abandoned by the French army. The horses lay dead in their harnesses, and mingled with them lay hundreds of human bodies, which had perished from the intense severity of the cold, from hunger and fatigue, in their retreat from Moscow.
1816. The bells of Notre Dame, Paris, were formally baptized under the names of the duke and Duchess of Angouleme.
1827. George Tomline, an eminent English bishop, died. His works display great erudition.
1828. Cayuga and Seneca canal completed.
1848. General Messenhausen, the commander of the national guard at Vienna, executed.
1849. The steam boat Louisiana exploded her boilers at New Orleans, when 60 persons were killed, and a great many wounded who afterwards died.
1852. The Lobos islands difficulty between the United States and Peru was settled, by the withdrawal of the American pretensions.