1806. Battle of Kursonet, on the Wrka; 15,000 Cossacks defeated by the French under Nansouty.
1808. Thomas Beddoes, an eminent English physician, died. He is known by his perseverance in making experiments to cure consumption by the application of pneumatics.
1814. Preliminaries of the treaty of peace between England and the United States signed at Ghent.
1824. Christopher Aretin, a learned German writer, died. On the abolition of the monastries in 1803 he was appointed to examine their libraries.
1830. Stephania Felicite de Genlis, a celebrated French authoress, died, aged 84. For the last thirty years of her life, her inexhaustible pen continued to pour forth a variety of works of which space is here wanted to enumerate even their names. The whole of her literary progeny falls little short of an hundred volumes, and are characterized by fertility of imagination and purity of style.
1831. A volcanic island, recently formed near Sicily, disappeared.
1832. The citadel of Antwerp, with 3,500 troops, surrendered to the French, after a brave resistance of 26 days. The French had thrown up 14,000 metres of trenches, and fired 63,000 rounds, by which 695 were wounded and 108 killed.
1836. Francisco Espoz y Mina, a distinguished Spanish constitutional general, died.
1836. Great snow storm in England, which blocked up the roads so as to prevent all traveling, and many lives were lost. In some places the snow drifted to the depth of forty feet, and in others avalanches buried houses and their inhabitants.
1846. Erastus Root, a distinguished statesman in the state of New York, died while on a visit to New York city, aged 74.