1817. Two shocks of earthquake at Charleston, S. C, and at Savannah, Ga.
1825. Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, died.
1848. The lives of thirty persons lost by the bursting of the boilers of the steamer Blue Ridge on the Ohio river. The boilers had been in use nine years.
1849. The pope threatened all who should take part in electing a new assembly, with excommunication.
1850. First ship in the United States dry dock at Brooklyn.
1853. Charles Humphrey Atherton, an eminent New Hampshire lawyer, died, aged 79.
1854. William Carr Berresford, a distinguished British field officer and nobleman, died, aged 85.
1854. Metropolitan hall and Lafarge hotel, two of the finest buildings in New York destroyed by fire.
JANUARY 9.
1514. Anne of Bretagne, queen of France died, aged 37.