1853. A Roman circus of great size was discovered at Tours in France, where excavations were being made.
1853. The small pox raged at the Sandwich islands, having since May carried off 1,805 persons out of a population of 60,000.
1855. William H. Fry died at Philadelphia, aged 78. He was one of the magnates of the press in that city, and the founder of the National Gazette.
1855. Lewis Weston Dillwyn, a British naturalist, died at Swanse, Wales, aged 77. He produced several valuable works on natural history, and communicated various papers on fossils, shells and plants to the Royal society.
SEPTEMBER.
SEPTEMBER 1.
5508 B. C. The world was created, according to the Septuagint, followed by Julius Africanus, a chronologer of the third century, upon the first of September, five thousand five hundred and eight years, three months and twenty-five days before the birth of Christ. Of the 7,349 years which are thus supposed to elapse since the creation, we shall find 3,000 of ignorance and darkness; 2,000 either fabulous or doubtful; 1,000 of ancient history, commencing with the Persian empire and the republics of Rome and Athens; 1,000 from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the discovery in America; and the remaining 349 will compose the modern state of Europe and mankind.
44 B. C. Divine honors decreed to the memory of Cæsar.