1811. The British ships Cerberus and Active captured 22 vessels from Otranto, with provisions and troops.
1812. Ogdensburg, New York, attacked by the British and Indians under Frazer and McDonnell. Forsythe was compelled to evacuate it. The British took 12 cannons, 1400 stands of arms, 300 tents, some provisions, and all the vessels and boats. American loss 27; British loss 64 killed and wounded.
1814. Blucher defeated by the French under Boyer; the former set the bridge and town of Mery on fire and fled.
1816. Adam Ferguson, an eminent Scottish writer, died. He was sent to America as secretary to the mission in 1778 to effect a reconciliation between the two countries.
1835. Jane Jarmon died near Wadesborough, N. C., aged 105.
1836. Joice Heth died at New York; a blind negro woman, who had been carried about the country as a show, under the pretence that she was 162 years of age and had been the nurse of General Washington. On a post mortem examination it was found that she could not have been more than 80 years old.
1841. A land slide in the commune of Gregano in Italy, by which 113 persons lost their lives. The town of Reggio, in Calabria, nearly destroyed by an earthquake.
1855. The San Francisco bankers suspended payment, causing a panic.
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303. The soldiers of Diocletian demolished the principal church of Nicomedia, and committed the sacred volumes to the flames.