1833. Elizabeth Pearce died in Johnson county, North Carolina, aged 111.
1833. The spasmodic cholera appeared at Havana, and in about one month from that time had destroyed 7000 persons.
1834. Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography, died at Munich, aged 63.
1852. Thomas Moore, the celebrated Irish poet, died, aged 73.
1854. The gallery of the French opera house at New Orleans fell during the performance, carrying away the second tier, by which the occupants were precipitated into the parquette, killing 3, and badly wounding 56 persons.
1854. Three shocks of an earthquake at Manchester, Kentucky, by which the houses were violently shaken.
1855. Gen. Jackson's sword presented to congress by the heirs of Gen. Armstrong.
1855. Henry Pierpont Edwards, an American judge, died at New York, aged 46.
1856. At the breaking up of the ice on the Mississippi at St. Louis, 23 steam boats were wrecked.