1832. Baron Cotta died. He was the originator of the daily political paper, the Algemeine Zeitung, so extensively circulated in Europe.
1832. James Hillhouse, an American statesman, died at New Haven, Ct., aged 79. He took an active part in the revolution, and was eighteen years a member of congress. He was entrusted with the construction of the Farmington canal.
1834. T. R. Malthus, an English writer on political economy, died. His most celebrated work is an Essay on Population, which has passed through many editions, and been translated into various languages.
1836. Deborah Tripp died at Poughkeepsie, aged 10 years and six months, and weighing 360 pounds. A few years before, herself and a younger sister were exhibited about the country for their extraordinary fatness. The younger sister died two or three years previous.
1837. William Mavor, a popular English author and compiler, died, aged 80. His Voyages and Universal History, in 25 vols. each, are well known, and his English Spelling Book passed through between four and five hundred editions.
1837. The imperial palace at St. Petersburg burnt, the weather at the time being 22° below zero. The palace was built in the reign of Elizabeth, at a cost of upwards of $5,000,000, and was the largest in Europe, sufficient to lodge 12,000 persons. The loss of treasures, pictures, statues, ornaments and furniture was immense.
1837. Steamer Caroline, a vessel in the service of the Navy island patriots, destroyed.
1839. Battle of Cagancha between the forces of Uruguay, under Rivera, and those of Buenos Ayres under Echague. The latter had an army of 5,000 men, and was defeated with the loss of 800 killed, and prisoners, baggage, &c., taken. Rivera's loss about 200.
1845. Texas admitted into the union.
1848. Wisconsin admitted into the union.