1848. A very destructive fire occurred in Detroit, Michigan. The houses were of wood principally on leased land.
1849. The city of Leghorn taken by the Tuscan troops.
1849. Astor house opera riot in the city of New York.
1853. Ashbel Strong Norton, an American preacher, died, aged 87. He was born in Farmington, Ct., graduated at Yale college in 1790; filled the pastoral office at Clinton, N. Y., with distinguished usefulness and success forty years, during which he was largely concerned in laying the foundations of social and religious institutions in central New York.
1853. The pope prohibited the circulation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, an American novel, in his dominions.
1855. A mob of armed men destroyed the Birch creek reservoir, in Clay county, Indiana, connected with the Wabash and Erie canal.
MAY 11.
1491 B. C. The Egyptians under Pharaoh drowned in the Red sea.
1153. David I, of Scotland, died. He was earl of Northumberland and Huntington, and married the daughter of the king of England, for whom he claimed the throne on the death of her father. He was a mild and popular king.
1310. James de Molai, grand master, and 54 knights of the temple, publicly burned at Paris, under the decree of an archiepiscopal council. They were condemned on confessions of Islamism and paganism, extorted by the rack, and afterwards retracted.