1810. A plot discovered to massacre the British at Lisbon, though defending the Portuguese cause.
1814. One of the large vats in the brew house of Meux & Co., London, burst, and demolished two houses; 3,500 barrels of beer were lost and four persons killed.
1814. British ship Hermes, destroyed in an attack on fort Bowyer, at Mobile point, and the other three ships compelled to put to sea. The fort was attacked at the same time by the British and Indians on the land side. The American garrison consisted of 130 men, of whom 4 were killed and 4 wounded. British loss, killed and wounded, 232.
1819. An edict of the king of the Netherlands required, that in certain provinces, none other than the national language, the Flemish-Dutch, should be used in public business.
1829. Slavery abolished in Mexico by the president.
1829. James Hamilton died at Dublin; inventor of the Hamiltonian method of instruction.
1830. William Huskisson, an English statesman, killed by a train of cars on the Liverpool rail road.
1833. John Gordon Smith, an eminent English scholar, died. He published a celebrated work on medical jurisprudence; became involved in pecuniary difficulties, and terminated his short and useful life within the walls of the Fleet prison.
1834. William H. Crawford, an American statesman, died. He was minister to France in 1813, and in 1825 a candidate for the presidency.
1838. Adalbert von Chamisso, one of the most popular modern poets of Germany, died at Berlin.