1808. The bones of the American prisoners who had perished on board the Jersey and other British prison ships at New York during the revolutionary war, solemnly inhumed in a vault erected at the Wallabout.
1808. Richard Hurd, bishop of Worcester, died, aged 89. He was a learned man, author of several literary productions, and was offered the primacy, which he declined.
1810. The crown prince of Sweden killed by a fall from his horse. A circumstance which led the way for the elevation of Bernadotte.
1818. First steam boat on lake Erie (Walk in the Water), launched at Black Rock.
1839. Michael Buff, a soldier of the revolution, died in Oglethorpe co., Ga. He was under Gen. Forbes, 1758, and fought at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
1840. Thomas Harvey, a distinguished officer in the British navy, died at Bermuda, aged 65.
1841. Capitulation of the city of Canton, which had forfeited previous stipulations with the British and resumed hostilities. The Chinese agreed to pay six millions of dollars in one week as a ransom for the city, and that their troops should be withdrawn 60 miles into the interior, and that all losses sustained by the partial destruction of the factories, should be paid. The sum was paid as stipulated.
1843. Noah Webster, the American lexicographer, died, aged 85.
1850. John N. Maffit, the well known and eccentric methodist preacher, died at Mobile.
1852. Thomas Francis Meagher, a political exile from Ireland, and convict at Van Dieman's land, arrived at New York.