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
1814. Battle of Montmirail between the French under Bonaparte, and the
Russians under D'Yorck.
1815. Fort Boyer, Mobile, with a garrison of 375, surrendered to 5,000
British under Lambert, with a fleet of 13 ships of the line and 25
smaller vessels. Col. Lawrence received a wound, and seeing that it was
useless to contend against such odds, struck his flag. British loss 31;
American 10.
1821. ADAM WALKER died. He was apprenticed to a weaver; but ultimately
became a lecturer on philosophy, which he adopted as a profession, and
traveled in England for the purpose of lecturing on that science.
1827. JOSE MARIA ABRANTES, a Portuguese nobleman died in exile. He was
the friend of Don Miguel, of infamous memory.
1828. DE WITT CLINTON died at his residence in Albany, aged 59. He was
born in the town of Little Britain, Orange county, N. Y., 1769, and
educated for the bar. He was at an early age elected to a seat in the
legislature, and continued to hold offices of honor and emolument until
the day of his death, at which time he was governor of the state of New
York. It is to his perseverance in a great measure, that we owe the
construction of the Erie canal. As a public character he is entitled to
durable renown, and no one was ever more ambitious of a reputation for
science and literature.
1837. JOHN LATHAM, an eminent English naturalist and ornithologist,
died, aged 97. He was one of the founders of the Linnean society, and
commenced the publication of his last work at the age of 82.
1844. HENRY KIFER, a soldier of the revolution, died at North Woodbury,
Pa., aged 110½ years.
1856. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ, a well known American novelist, died.
FEBRUARY 12.
590. PELAGIUS II, pope of Rome, died. In his time a plague raged at Rome
of so strange a nature, that persons seized with it died sneezing and
gaping.
1401. WILLIAM SAWTRY, a Lollard, condemned and burned to death at London
for heresy.
1448. A general poll tax of 6d. with 6s. 8d. on every merchant stranger,
and 20d. on their clerks, granted by parliament to Henry VI.
1542. CATHARINE HOWARD, fifth wife of Henry VIII, beheaded. The
execution of this ungrateful woman excited no commiseration, as she had
been the principal instrument in the accusations against Anne Boleyn,
her predecessor.
1554. JANE GREY beheaded, at the age of 17. She was the daughter of
Mary, youngest sister of Henry VIII, and a woman of uncommon beauty,
talents and learning, for her years, to which she added great amiability
of disposition, and fortitude of mind. Her disastrous fate created an
extraordinary interest in her favor, which has continued unabated. "Good
Christian people, you come here to see me die; not for any thing I have
offended, for I will deliver to my God a soul as pure from trespass, as
innocence from injustice."
1589. BLANCHE PERRY died, chief gentlewoman to Queen Elizabeth, and a
great lover of antiquities, besides a very tasteful writer.
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