1812. Wilna entered by the Russians, where they found vast magazines, 30 cannon, upwards of 5,000 in the hospitals, including some distinguished officers, and took about 10,000 prisoners.
1813. The French, under Soult, again repulsed in an attempt to force the British under lord Wellington to repass the Nieve.
1816. Indiana admitted as a new state into the Union of the United States.
1828. Beranger was sentenced by the French court of correctional police, to pay 10,000 francs ($1,800) fine, and to undergo nine months' imprisonment, for having attacked the dignity of the church, and of the king, in his poems.
DECEMBER 12.
1656 A. M. The rain of the deluge having ceased to fall, having continued 40 days, from the 17th of the 2d month, answering to our 2d Nov., q. v.
404 B. C. Darius II (Nothus), king of Persia, died, after a reign of nineteen years, and was succeeded by Artaxerxes Mnemon, his son. Cyrus, the younger, another of his sons, carried on several successful wars during the reign of Darius.
1271. Richard, king of the Romans, died, at Berkhamstead, England.
1600. John Craig, a Scottish ecclesiastic, died. He was at first a Dominican, and by his talents recommended himself to cardinal Pole. But, becoming a heretic, narrowly escaped being burnt. He afterwards became the coadjutor of Knox, the great reformer.
1611. Thomas Sutton, a rich English bachelor, died. He was the founder of the Charter house.