1809. GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS IV, king of Sweden, dethroned, and the reigns of the government assumed by his uncle the duke of Sudermania, afterwards Charles XIII. (By some authorities, March 15.) 1811. The French under Massena attacked at Redinha, Portugal, by the duke of Wellington, and compelled to fall back. 1813. Warren county, N. Y., erected. 1814. The allied British and Portuguese, under Marshal Beresford, took possession of Bordeaux in France, in the name of Louis XVIII. 1819. ROBERT WATT, author of the _Bibliotheca Britannica_, died. His family were severe sufferers by the failure of Constable & Co., of Edinburgh. 1837. M. DE PRADT, archbishop of Malines, died at Paris, aged 78. He bore a conspicuous part in the political history of France, was often employed in important missions, and was the author of many political publications. 1843. LITTLETON HUNT, aged 107, died at Guinett, Ga. When a soldier of the revolutionary army he was severely wounded at the battle of Eutaw springs. 1844. EDWARD R. SHUBRICK, a brave and accomplished American naval officer, died on board his ship, the Columbia, off the coast of Brazil, aged 50. 1846. JONATHAN ELLIOT, a well known newspaper editor and political writer, died at Washington, D. C. 1854. HUGH MACPHERSON died, aged 86; for 61 years professor of Greek at the university of Aberdeen. 1857. Rail road accident on the Great Western railway in Canada, by which a great number of persons were killed at a bridge over the Des Jardins canal. 1857. JOHN JOHNSON, an old revolutionary soldier, died in Alleghany township, Westmoreland county, Penn., aged 103. He served in the continental army during the whole of the revolutionary war; fought at the battles of the White plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony point, Guilford court house, and Yorktown where Lord Cornwallis capitulated and surrendered to Gen. Washington, in all the battles and skirmishes of Gen. Anthony Wayne; and at the storming of Stony point by Wayne, he formed one of the _forlorn hope_. MARCH 13. 565. BELISARIUS, a distinguished Roman general, died. He is memorable for his signal and momentous victories, and for his misfortunes. He was degraded to beg alms at the gates of Constantinople by the ungrateful emperor Justinian, to whom he had rendered the most important services. 1470. Battle near Stamford, England, in which Edward IV gained an important victory over his adversaries. 1493. COLUMBUS arrived at Palos, from his first voyage of discovery. 1519. CORTEZ, on his expedition for the conquest of Mexico, landed at the mouth of the river Tabasco, and prepared to attack the town of the same name, in which about 12,000 warriors had assembled. Calling upon _St. Jago_, he fell upon the Indians, who were repulsed. 1521. MAGELLAN discovered the Phillipine islands, on one of which he was killed by the natives.