1809. The French under Suchet attacked the Spaniards under Gen. Blake, posted on the heights of Beclhithe, and forced them to fall back.
1811. All differences between the United States and Great Britain on account of the attack made on the United States frigate Chesapeake amicably adjusted.
1813. Americans under general White, with a few Cherokee Indians, attacked Grayson's Farm, one of the Hillibee towns, of 20 houses, which they burnt, and killed 60 Creek warriors and captured about 256 more, without the loss of a man.
1824. Destructive hurricane on the coast of England. The river Neva overflowed its banks, and damaged the city of St. Petersburg.
1832. Violent eruption of mount Etna; the town of Bronte, containing 10,000 inhabitants, destroyed.
1848. The great dam at Hadley Falls, in Massachusetts, near Springfield, carried away by a flood.
1849. Benjamin Smith, a very eminent and industrious American statesman, of Rhode Island, died at North Kingston.
1851. Ernest Augustus, duke of Cumberland and king of Hanover, died, aged 81. He was the fifth son of George III, and distinguished himself as an officer on the continent during the last century.
1852. Duke of Wellington's funeral obsequies took place at London, with great pomp. The religious ceremonies were observed in St. Paul's cathedral, which was elaborately decorated for the purpose. The body was deposited in the crypt near that of Nelson.
1852. A convention was signed at London by England, France, Prussia, Bavaria and Greece, by which none but a prince of the Greek religion was thereafter to ascend the throne of Greece.