1830. La Fayette created marshal of France.
1832. Jean St. Martin, an eminent French orientalist, died at Paris of cholera. He was principal editor of the Journal Asiatic, and particularly distinguished for his knowledge of the languages of western Asia.
1836. M. de Rayneval, an eminent French diplomatist, died. He was employed in important missions under Bonaparte, and after the restoration had a still more distinguished career in diplomacy.
1838. Lorenzo da Ponte died in New York, aged 89. He was an Italian by birth, but long a resident of the city of New York; distinguished for his attainments, particularly in Italian literature and art, and author of various publications, among which are some celebrated operas.
1840 Mordecai Moor, died at Clinton, Me., aged 104.
1848. Disastrous fire at Albany; several hundred buildings burned, and one million of property destroyed.
1849. Henry Colman, many years Unitarian minister at Salem, Mass., died in London. He had for some time devoted himself to agricultural inquiries, and published several volumes on the agriculture of foreign countries.
1850. Ashtabula county court house, Ohio, with all papers and records, destroyed by fire.
1852. Pompeo Litta, an Italian author, died at an advanced age. He began in 1819, a costly illustrated work on the genealogies of the principal Italian families, existing and extinct.
1853. A difficulty occurred at the Chincha islands between the Peruvian commandant and the American shipmasters in port.