1824. William Windham Sadler, an English æronaut, killed by a fall from his balloon. The accident occurred by the car being driven against the chimney in the descent. He was a skillful chemist and engineer, cut off at the early age of 28.
1826. Joseph Peter Picot Cloriviere, director of the monastery in Georgetown, D. C., died. He was a royalist of France, and the reputed inventor of the infernal machine for which he had to leave his country.
1826. A magazine of powder near Ostend, containing 1,300 barrels, or about 60 tons, exploded, damaging many houses by the concussion, and destroyed several lives.
1830. Independence of the South American republics acknowledged by France.
1849. Silas Jenison, for several years governor of Vermont, died at Shoreham, an esteemed and valuable citizen.
1849. Mrs. Maury died in Virginia; an artist, linguist and authoress, known in the United States by her Statesmen of America.
1849. Robert Goldsborough, for many years president of the medical and chirurgical society of Maryland, died at Centreville.