1836. The famous bell of Moscow, the largest in the world, raised from the ground, where it had laid a great many years. Its weight is about 440,000 pounds, is 21 feet in height and 23 in diameter.
1842. John Banin, a popular Irish novelist, died near Kilkenny, Ireland.
1846. Fisher Ames Harding, one of the editors of the Detroit Daily Advertiser, died at Detroit.
1848. Daniel Wadsworth, a gentleman of highly cultivated taste and benevolence, died at Hartford, Ct., aged 77.
1848. Capital punishment except in cases of martial law, abolished in the
Prussian assembly, also in the German parliament at Frankfort.
1851. At Leon, Nicaragua, Gen. Munoz, late minister of war, with a small body of troops, took prisoners president Pineda and most of his cabinet, sent them to a port in Tigre islands, and elected Justo Albuanez president.
1852. Alfred D'Orsay, the mirror of fashion, letters and art, died in Paris, aged 54.
1854. A severe battle was fought between the Chippewa and Sioux Indians.
1854. Bailey Washington, a surgeon in the navy, died at Washington, aged 67. He was a relative of general Washington, and entered the navy in 1810 as surgeon. He was with the Enterprise when she captured the Boxer, and was fleet surgeon under Rogers, Elliot and Patterson, in the Mediterranean.