1815. Treaty of peace concluded between the United States and Algiers, in which the dey relinquished the payment of tribute to the Algerines, released the prisoners, and made restitution for American property captured by his cruisers.
1815. Allied army from the heights of Belleville, commenced their attacks on Paris.
1817. The Prussian government prohibited the further use of the term protestant in the country, as being obsolete and unmeaning, since the protestants did not any longer protest, and ordered the word evangelical to be substituted for it.
1817. Christopher Daniel Ebeling, a German geographer, died. His great work, the Geography and History of North America, was completed and published at Hamburg 1799, in 5 vols. His collection of books in relation to America, nearly 4,000 in number, were purchased by Israel Thorndike of Boston, and presented to Harvard college.
1821. Jose Fernandez Abascal died, aged 78; long engaged in the military service of Spain, and viceroy of Peru during
the early part of the war of independence in South America.
1831. William Roscoe, an English biographer and miscellaneous writer, died. He was of humble parentage, but his lives of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and Leo X, give him an exalted and enduring reputation.
1832. Silistria, in Bulgaria, surrendered to the Russians. The trophies were 8,000 prisoners, 2 three-tailed pashas, 250 cannon, &c.
1835. Benjamin Pritchard, the Kentucky giant, died. His disease was dropsy; his weight 525 pounds.
1840. The sub-treasury, or independent treasury bill passed the house of representatives in congress, by a vote of 124 to 105.