1828. William Congreve, a British officer, died; inventor of the Congreve rocket, a hydro-pneumatic canal lock, and a new method of manufacturing gun powder, &c.
1830. The bill to remove the civil disabilities of the Jews rejected in the British parliament by a vote of 288 to 165.
1830. Great eruption of mount Ætna; seven new craters were formed, and eight villages were destroyed, to which the lava had never before extended.
1835. Felicia Dorothea Hemans, a celebrated English poetess, died. Her poems were extremely popular during her lifetime, and have been published in 2 vols.
1838. New York state banks resumed specie payment.
1841. A constitution of the republic of Yucatan decreed by the legislature and published at Merida, the capital; Yucatan having declared its absolute independence of the republic of Mexico.
1842. Count de Las Casas, author of the Memoirs of Napoleon, died near Paris.
1849. The city of Bologna capitulated to the Austrians after a conflict of eight days.
1850. William Hendricks, for some time governor of Indiana, died at Madison, aged 67.
1854. Tornadoes occurred in Alabama, Missouri and Illinois, accompanied with extensive damage to property.