1804. Goree taken by the French from the English. 1806. EUGENE NAPOLEON BEAUHARNAIS married to Augusta Amelia, daughter of the king of Bavaria. 1810. LYON LEVY, a jeweler, threw himself from the monument in London. 1811. Gen. JUNOT wounded in the face by a musket ball, while reconnoitering the British lines. 1813. Battle at Frenchtown in Michigan, between the United States troops and the British and Indians, when the latter were defeated. American loss, 12 killed, 55 wounded. 1815. The British decamped from before Fort St. Philip, on the Mississippi, which they had bombarded from the 9th. About 12 o'clock at night they took to their boats, leaving 80 of their wounded, 14 pieces heavy artillery, and a great quantity of shot. 1815. STANISLAUS, chevalier de Bouffleurs, died at Paris, aged 78. He was the son of the marchioness de Bouffleurs, mistress of Stanislaus, king of Poland. He distinguished himself in the army, which however he left to give his attention to literature. He was considered one of the most ingenious men of his time, and was noted for the elegance of his manners and conversation. The epitaph on his tomb, written by himself, is characteristic of him: _Mes amis, croyez vous que je dors?_ 1816. Thanksgiving throughout England on the restoration of peace. 1819. JOHN WILLSON, died in London, aged 52. He sometime held the chief command at Ceylon, and subsequently administered the government of Upper Canada. 1826. OMMEGANCK, one of the most celebrated Dutch landscape painters, died at Antwerp. His pieces are distinguished for good taste, and for freshness and warmth of coloring. 1829. JOHN GEORGE HENRY HASSEL, a distinguished German geographer and statistical writer, died at Weimar. 1834. NATHANIEL AMES died at Providence. He was the son of Fisher Ames, and a seaman by profession. He is the author of _Mariners' Sketches_, _Nautical Reminiscences_, and _Old Sailor's Yarns_. 1848. JOHN DEIDRICH PETERSON died at Markham, Canada. He was the pioneer pastor of that town. 1854. JUDAH TOURO died at New Orleans, aged 78; bequeathing nearly two millions of dollars to the public institutions of that city. 1854. WILLIAM WALKER proclaimed the republic of Sonora. JANUARY 19. 1472. Birthday of COPERNICUS, at Thorn in Prussia. 1514. VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA returned to his colony at Darien, after having made the discovery of the Pacific ocean. His expedition occupied four months and a half; his triumph was complete. The whole population poured down to the shore to meet him, to hail him as the author of their fortunes, as less a man than a gift of heaven, to guide them into the possession of glories and riches incalculable. The expedition had been undertaken in consequence of the extravagant representations by the Indians, of a people who lived on the borders of that ocean, six suns distant, who owned large ships, and whose eating and drinking vessels were of pure gold. They referred to the Peruvians.