1804. James Nicholson, an officer in the American navy during the war of the revolution, died.
1806. Patrick O'Bryen, the Irish giant, died at Bristol, England. His height was 8 feet, 5 inches.
1814. Champlain village taken possession of by the British under Provost.
1814. Fort Castine, on the Penobscot, and several places taken by the British under Sherwood and admiral Griffith.
1814. United States sloop of war Wasp, captain Blakely, fell in with 10 sail of British vessels convoyed by a 74, and bomb ship. He cut out of the convoy a brig laden with military stores, and burnt her, and sunk the brig Avon, of 19 guns.
1818. The state prison at Auburn, N. Y., opened.
1831. George Fulton, author of an improved system of education and a popular pronouncing dictionary, died near New Haven, Scotland.
1838. William Clarke died; the companion of Lewis in the pioneer journey across the Rocky mountains. He was held in the highest estimation by nearly all the tribes of western Indians, however remote, whose character he well understood. He was several years governor of Missouri, and at the time of his death the oldest American settler residing in St. Louis.
1841. Joseph Nourse died; a soldier of the revolution, one of the vice-presidents of the American Bible society, and 40 years register of the United States treasury.
1849. The deaths registered in London for the week, were 2,796; exceeding those of any previous week, and nearly three times the average of the season. Of the number, 1,663 were by cholera, and 234 by diarrhea.