1817. TIMOTHY DWIGHT, president of Yale college, died, aged 65. He entered Yale college at the age of 13, and became a tutor at 19. His health becoming impaired, by the advice of his physicians he traveled, walking 2000 and riding 3000 miles in the course of a year. It had the effect to restore his constitution completely. His published works consist of theology, poetry and travels. His biography is interesting; he was an uncommon character. 1829. GREGORIO FUNES, a patriot of La Plata, died at Buenos Ayres. He was actively engaged in the South American revolution from its commencement. He was also an author. 1839. ALEXANDER COFFIN, the last survivor of the original proprietors who settled the city of Hudson in 1784, died, aged 99. He was highly respected for his talents, integrity and usefulness. 1839. Earthquake at Martinique, which did great damage, particularly at Fort Royal, where only 18 houses were left standing, of 1700, and 900 hundred sufferers were dug out of the ruins. 1843. FRANCIS S. KEY, district attorney of the United States and author of the national song, the _Star Spangled Banner_, died in Baltimore. 1853. Russia, Austria and Prussia, after considerable delay, finally acknowledge Napoleon III as emperor of France. 1853. The caloric ship Ericsson made her trial trip from New York to the Potomac. JANUARY 12. 400. B. C. XENOPHON, with the 10,000, forced a passage through the defiles of Armenia. 1519. MAXIMILIAN I, emperor of Germany, died. He was elected king of the Romans 1486, and ascended the imperial throne 1493. Under him the Turks were checked in their enterprises against Germany, and repelled from his hereditary territories. 1598. The Marquis DE LA ROCHE received from Henry IV a commission to conquer Canada. He sailed from France with a colony of convicts from the prisons. He landed them on the Isle of Sable, and sailed for Acadie, from whence he returned to France. The survivors of the colony, twelve in number, were taken off seven years afterwards, and presented to the king in their sealskin clothes and long beards. He gave them fifty crowns each and pardoned their offences. 1640. An engagement of four days' duration near the Island Tamaraca, Brazils, between the Dutch and Portuguese, in which the latter were defeated and the Dutch admiral killed. 1678. A remarkable darkness at noon in England. 1777. General MERCER died of the wounds of the battle of Princeton. 1781. The states general of Holland issued letters of marque and reprisal against England. 1793. ARTHUR LEE, a distinguished American statesman, died at Urbana, Va. The long and faithful services which he rendered his country during his arduous struggles for independence, in the alternate character of ambassador and statesman, are universally known and acknowledged.