1835. Edmund Fry died in London, at a very advanced age. He was a member of the society of Friends, originally bred to the medical profession, but was more generally known as an eminent and learned type founder.
1835. David Hosack, an eminent physician, died at New York, where he was professor of the theory and practice of physic, and was held in high estimation as a man of talent, learning and worth.
1838. Hugh James Rose, a talented and eloquent English divine, died. Besides numerous works of which he was the author, he projected the British Magazine, and edited the Theological Library.
1842. 250 troops from Texas invading Mexico, were defeated and taken prisoners.
1854. Martin Joseph Routh, president of Magdalen college, died at Oxford, England, aged 99; a man of great learning, talent and virtues.
1854. The British parliament passed a law permitting the enlistment of foreigners, as officers and soldiers, in her majesty's service.
1855. Valerian Krasinski, one of the most distinguished members of the Polish emigration, and an eminent author, died at Edinburgh, Scotland.
DECEMBER 23.
486 B. C. The accession of Xerxes the magnificent to the Persian throne, Nar. Era, 263. When Darius Hystaspes, his father, was cut off, he had reigned 36 years, from the thoth of N. E. 227, corresponding with the first day of January B. C. 521. The year 485, in which he died, is remarkable for two facts, the conquest of Syracuse under Gelon, and a comic work by Epicharmus, who added the Greek letters chi and theta to his native alphabet.
176. Marcus Antoninus entered Rome in triumph, after his German victories on the Danube, accompanied by his monstrous son Commodus.