1798. Battle of Vinegar hill, at which the Irish rebels were completely routed and the insurrection crushed.
1809. Daniel Lambert, an English giant, died at Stamford, aged 36. His weight was 739 lbs. when last weighed, but at the time of his death, it was supposed to have been full 800. His coffin contained 112 superficial feet of Elm timber.
1813. Battle of Vittoria, in Spain, between the French under Joseph Bonaparte and Jourdan, and the allies under Wellington. French met with a disastrous defeat, losing 15,000 killed and wounded, and 3,000 prisoners, 150 cannon, 400 wagons of ammunition, 14,000 cattle, and the military chest, containing 42,000,000 reals. Loss of the allies 4,645.
1814. John Martin Miller, a professor of oriental languages, and poet of some note, died at Ulm.
1816. The king of the Netherlands acceded to the holy alliance.
1828. Leandro Fernandez Moratin died at Paris. He was a dramatic writer of much merit.
1832. Simon Waronzow, a Russian statesman, died in London. He had been for 30 years Russian ambassador to Great Britain.
1832. Anna Maria Porter, an English novelist, died. Her works, together with those of her sister Jane, had gained a great degree of popularity, which was in a measure swept away, with every thing else, before that splendid series, the Waverly novels.
1848. About 3,000 houses destroyed by fire in Constantinople; damage estimated at $100,000,000.
1850. Matthew L. Davis, a distinguished citizen and printer in New York, died.