New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-20

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Anniversary Events--July 20.


Anniversary Events--July 20.
1874 great portion of the village Of Chamouni,
In Savoy, destroyed by fire.
1s54-Carone Bowles, widow OF Southey, died at
Buckland England poetess Of some merit.
ls52-The obsequies of Henry Clay celebrated with
the greatest pomp and magnifcence in New York
The city was shrouded in mourning, business was
suspended, and the shipping wore their colors at
halfmast.
ls43--The Chinese city Chinkeang.foo was cap
tured by the British forces under Sir q. Pottinger
ls25-Wiiam Brown, a celebrated gem engraver,
died. He was first patronized by Catharine Of Rus.
sia, and subsequently by the King of France; but
the storm Of the revolution drove him from Paris to
London where he executed many excellent worke.
1814-Privateer General Armstrong arrived at New
York, having captured eleven vessels.
18l4-The British fort st. Joseph taken possession
of by Colonel Croghan.
1Sl4-General Brown moved bis whole force upon
Fort George but not being supported BY the fleet on
account of Com. Chauncey's illness, fell back on the
22d to Queenstown.
l794-A revolutionary tribunal established at Ge-
neva, in Switzerland about 1000 persons arrested
200 on the prescription list escaped.
17s8-Action off Hoogland between the Russian
feet of II ships, and Swedish fleet Of 15. It con-
tnued from P. NJ. till near midnight, and ended in
the defeat Of the Russians, who had one ship sunk
and one of IA guns and $50 men captured.
1779-Dougal Graham (tbe Rhymer,) chroncler Of
the events of the rebellion Of l74l, died.
l759-The English General, Prideaux, command.
ing the enterprise against Niagara, while directing
the operations of the sege was killed by the bursting
| of q cohorn.
17O4-Peregrine White, the Jrstborn Of Plymouth
colony, died at Marshfed aged nearly 81.
l655-Robert Brooke died he was the first settler
in Pattuxent, Maryland.
1620-Massacre Of the Protestants in the Vateline
in Switzerland. 1t began on this day and extended
to all the towns of the district; it was labor o
three days.
l553-Lady Jane Greys nine days usurpation ter
minated.
l54s-The Emperor Charles placed the Protest
ant confederates under the ban of the Empire where
upon they declared war upon him.
llG4-Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, died /; called
Master of the Sentences, from work of his by tina
name which has been ably commented on by sue
ceeding diyines.
A B. C.-The customary games in memory o
Caesars victories were exhibited by Octavius Of
this day, dedicated to Venus Mater, when he pre-
duced the hero's golden spectatoria chair The ami
versary is interesting from the fact of comet hay
ing appeared near the Great Bear, which was vsibl
for seven days.
1922 B. C.-The great Canicular cycle of tt
Egyptians, consisting of AGO years, began with th
sun in Cancer fifteen days after the summer solstice
Its first revolution just completed with the reig
of Adrian, 1873 A. D.. its second in the time of Shaks
peare, 1898. The famous expedition of the Arge
nauts and the foundation of the Pythian games, ar
events which chronologists have placed sixty veal
afterwards.