1793. Mr. Blanchard, the French æronaut, made the first balloon ascension in the United States, at Philadelphia, in the presence of General Washington.
1795. Thiel in Holland taken by the French under Macdonald.
1799. The habeas corpus act suspended in Great Britain.
1805. Noble Wimberly Jones, a revolutionary character, died. He came to America under Gen. Oglethorpe, and at the breaking out of the war was a practicing physician in Savannah. He was elected to the Georgia legislature a number of years and then resumed his practice again, at the solicitation of many of his former patients.
1809. Congress passed laws to enforce the embargo.
1810. The Diocesan court of the officiality of Paris pronounced a nullity of marriage between Bonaparte and Josephine.
1811. The Spanish cortes published a manifesto declaring their determination not to enter into a treaty with Bonaparte until his troops should have entirely evacuated the Peninsula.
1811. The whole militia of New Orleans ordered into immediate service by Gov. Claiborne to suppress a negro insurrection.
1812. Valentia in Spain surrendered to the French under Suchet, with 374 cannons, 18000 troops and stores of all kinds.
1813. British manifesto against the United States.