1847. Daniel O'Connel, the Irish agitator, died at Genoa, on his way to Rome. His heart was sent forward and his body carried back to Ireland.
1848. Attempted communist counter revolution in Paris.
1848. Richard H. Toler, a distinguished writer and for 23 years editor of the Lynchburgh Virginian, died at Richmond.
1854. George Perkins, a retired Boston merchant, was murdered by the Chinese crew of a boat which he had engaged to take him ashore at Macao, whither he had just arrived from San Francisco.
1854. The ship Townsend, from Boston to San Francisco destroyed by fire, and several lives lost.
1854. An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.
1855. The universal industrial exhibition was opened at Paris by Louis Napoleon.
1855. A destructive tornado swept over a portion of Lapeer county, Michigan.
MAY 16.
1277. John XXI, pope, killed by the fall of a building. He was a Portuguese, and wrote on philosophy, medicine, &c.