1802. British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner £10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.
1803. Thomas Pett, an English miser, died. He went to London at the age of 10, with a solitary shilling in his pocket. He lodged 30 years in one gloomy apartment, which was never lighted up with coal, candle, or the countenance of a visitant. It is said he never eat a morsel at his own expense, and left about $35,000 to relatives whom he had never seen.
1805. British surrendered Diamond rock, Martinique, to the French.
1811. Christoph, and Maria Louisa, his sable consort, crowned at Cape Francois, sovereigns of Hayti.
1812. John William de Winter, a noted Dutch admiral, died at Paris.
1814. Peace between Great Britain and France proclaimed in London.
1843. John Cary, a negro, died at Washington, aged 114. He accompanied Washington as his personal servant in the old French war, and preserved a dress coat presented to him by the general, which he had worn at the siege of Yorktown.
1854. The military force of Boston was called out to protect the government marshal in delivering Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave, on board a Virginia vessel. No serious outbreak occurred, though crowds thronged the streets, and hooted and hissed and groaned, and threw missiles at the military, and at the marshal and his assistants.
1855. There was a riot at Portland, Me.; a crowd attempted to seize with violence certain liquors, claimed to be owned by the city; and, persisting, the military were called out and fired, killing one man and wounding others.