1818. Field marshal Colloredo, Austrian minister of state, and director-general of artillery, died at Vienna, aged 84.
1826. John Nichols, printer and editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, died at London.
1827. Jose Alvarez, a famous Spanish sculptor, died at Madrid.
1829. Bushrod Washington died; one of the judges of the supreme court of the United States.
1829. Great inundation of the Nile began, by which 30,000 persons perished.
1836. John Loudon McAdam, died in Scotland, aged 80; the celebrated introducer of the system of road making which bears his name. He was 60 years of age when he commenced his public career as a reformer of roads; yet he became so great a benefactor that the British government made him a grant of nearly $50,000.
1842. Robert Smith, a cabinet minister under presidents Jefferson and Madison, died at Baltimore, aged 85.
1851. Preissnitz, founder of the system of hydropathy, died at Graefenberg, in Bavaria, aged 52.
1851. Marshal Soult, duke of Dalmatia, died in France, aged 82; terminating a long public career, both military and civil.
1852. An earthquake greatly damaged the city of St. Jago de Cuba.