438. St. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, one of the Fathers and archbishop of
Constantinople, died.
1673. JEROME LALLEMANT, superior of the Jesuits in Canada, died, aged
80; leaving behind him a high reputation in his order. He furnished
seven of the _Relaçons_.
1676. The Narragansetts, in retreating from their country in Rhode
island, drove off from one of the inhabitants of Warwick, 15 horses, 50
oxen and 200 sheep.
1696. The Royal Sovereign burnt by accident. She was the first great
ship built in England, and became one of the best men of war in the
world. For sixty years she was so formidable to her enemies that none of
the most daring of them willingly ventured an engagement. The levies of
money for building this noble vessel caused the rebellion.
1733. THOMAS WOOLSTON, an English divine, died in prison. He imbibed a
fondness for allegorical interpretations of scripture from reading some
of the early writers--particularly Origen. His speculations finally led
to an indictment for blasphemy, and being unable to pay the fine
imposed, he was retained in prison. He was a learned man, but held
notions peculiar to himself, which was a high offence in those days.
1760. The ice carried away one of the dykes of the Rhine, in consequence
of which the neighboring country was inundated.
1783. The British under Gen. Mathews took possession of Bednapore and
Candapore, without firing a gun, and the whole country, except
Mangalore, yielded in consequence.
1795. PICHEGRU made a requisition upon the Dutch for the French army of
200,000 quintals of corn, 5,000,000 rations of hay, 5,000,000 measures
of oats, 200,000 rations of straw, 150,000 pairs of shoes, 20,000 pairs
of boots, 20,000 cloth coats and waistcoats, 40,000 pairs of stocking
breeches, 150,000 pairs of linen pants, 200,000 shirts, 50,000 hats, to
be furnished within a month, and 12,000 oxen to be furnished within two
months.
1800. King John's castle, at Old Ford near Bow, in England, was blown
down by a storm. It was built in 1203 and afforded the king a sleeping
place after signing the magna charta.
1807. BURR'S conspiracy communicated to congress.
1807. BONAPARTE confiscated the possessions of Ernest Frederick Anthony,
hereditary prince of Saxe Coburg, for holding a commission in the
Russian service.
1807. Action between the British ship Caroline and the Spanish ship St.
Raphael, which resulted in the capture of the latter, bound from Lima to
Manilla, with 500,000 Spanish dollars, 1,700 quintals of copper, and a
valuable cargo.
1814. Camp Defiance attacked by the Indians at day break. The United
States troops and friendly Indians were commanded by Gen. Floyd, who
repulsed the assailants with great slaughter.
1823. CHARLES HUTTON, an eminent English mathematician, died. He was
born 1737; his father, a viewer of mines, intended him for the same
employment; but he rose by his own energy and application to a high
degree of fame and fortune.
1832. AUGUSTIN DANIELS, count de Billiard, died, a French statesman and
soldier. He fought at Jemappes, was with Bonaparte through the Egyptian
campaign; at Austerlitz; in all the great battles in Prussia; at Moskwa;
and lost an arm at Leipsic. He made himself useful under Louis XVIII and
Louis Philippe.
1832. ANDREW BELL, founder of the Bell or Madras system of education,
died. It has been made a subject of dispute whether Bell or Lancaster is
the progenitor of the monitorial or mutual system of instruction. In
1796 Dr. Bell returned from Madras, and submitted his system to the
public. It has since been widely diffused over the civilized world.
1836. FREDERICK DAVID SCHAEFFER died, pastor of the German Lutheran
church in Philadelphia. He was born and educated in Germany, but came to
this country in early life. He was a man of learning, and distinguished
for his knowledge of languages.
1840. ISAAC CHAUNCEY, a distinguished American commodore, died at
Washington.
1841. MCLEOD arrested within the limits of the state of New York. Though
engaged in burning the steamboat Caroline in 1837, yet being a British
subject and that government having assumed the responsibility of that
act, his arrest threatened a rupture of the peace between the two
nations.
1850. WILLIAM ATKINS COLEMAN, for more than thirty years connected with
the literature of New York, died.
1856. CHARLES MORRIS, a commodore in the United States navy, died, aged
71. He was the acknowledged chief of the navy in administrative wisdom
and in varied professional attainments; had displayed great heroism and
intrepidity in the capture of the Philadelphia and Guerriere; in the
latter action he was shot through the body by a musket ball.