The Every Day Book of History and Chronology: Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present TimeMunsell, Joel
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The Every Day Book of History and Chronology: Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time
Munsell, Joel
Chronology, Historical
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.
JANUARY 28.
814. CHARLEMAGNE, or Charles I of France, died. He was an illustrious
sovereign, as well in the cabinet as in the field; and though he could
not write his name, was the patron of men of letters and the restorer of
learning. He wanted the virtue of humanity.
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