1813. Violent eruption of mount Etna.
1816. Treaty between the United States and the dey of Algiers.
1822. A hurricane in Iceland, which overthrew the churches. The new volcano of Oefields Jokkelen, spouted burning stones and ashes.
1827. Enrico Acerbi, an Italian surgeon and medical writer, died.
1837. John Austin died at Philadelphia, aged 67; a native of Barbadoes, formerly a surgeon in the British army, and a practitioner at Barbadoes and Demarara, where he was greatly esteemed.
1853. John Macrae Washington, a brave American military officer, was swept from the wreck of the San Francisco, aged 60. After the close of the Mexican war he commanded an expedition across the plains of Mexico to the Pacific, and acted as military governor one year.
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795. Adrian I, pope, died. He was a Roman patrician, who on his elevation to the pontificate highly embellished St. Peter's church, and displayed his benevolence and humanity during a famine occasioned by the inundation of the Tiber.
1135. Stephen crowned king of England on St. Stephen's day.
1292. John Baliol performed homage to Edward of England at New Castle.