The loss of the allies was probably upwards of 20,000. This great battle gave peace to Europe.
1823. William Coombe, a British author of considerable merit, died. He did not attach his name to his works.
1832. The duke of Wellington attacked by a mob in the streets of London—the anniversary of his victory at Waterloo.
1835. William Cobbett, an English poetical and miscellaneous writer, died. He was a self-taught and self-made man, who for many years made a conspicuous figure in the politics of England, and was finally elected to parliament.
1841. The constitution of the newly constituted state of the isthmus of Panama publicly sworn to, and Dr. Thomas Herrara elected president.
1848. Henry Tooley, a consistent member of the methodist episcopal church, the first masonic grand master in Mississippi, and a son not only but the father of temperance in Natchez, died there, aged 75.
1848. The city of Prague, which had revolted on the 12th, was bombarded and reduced to ruins.
1848. The Austrians defeated by the Piedmontese near Rivoli.
1848. Venice garrisoned by 13,000 Romans.
1848. Carlowitz bombarded.