New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-24
Nsm Orlsats 1ailp Crescent.
Anniversary Events--Feb. a.

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1s5LDeath Of Robert Armstrong, proprietor Of
the Washington Union newspaper. Same day, two
men were dashed to pieces by falling from The 10
CARA suspension bridge. s5354.5 -
ls52-Desth Of David Kennison, st Chicago, aged
III the last survivor Of the Boston tea party.
1s48-Revolution in Paris.
1919 Death Of John Owens, . soldier Of the
French war and Of the American revolution, aged
1O7.
1s2s-Death Of Jacob Brown, at one time COM
mander in chief of the IT, s. army during the last war
with England. ~
lS26-Death Of Richard Dale, Virginia naval OIL
Ger Of the revolution. He was under Paul Jones in
the engagement Of the Bon Homme Richard and
Seraps and was the first to board the British ship.
ls21-Death ofthe English poet, John Keats, aged
Is. His death was attributed to the seventies Of
criticism preying upon too.sensitive nature-the
criticisms Of Clifford, " who had leaped from cob
ber's bench into an editors stool"
1s15-Death OF Robert Fulton, of steamboat fame,
aged so. 5 ..
1S13-Action between the United States sloop
Hornet and the British brig Peacock, OF Demarara
The latter was defeated and reduced to sinking
condition in Is minutes. Her captain, Peake, was
killed, and the vessel literally riddled. She sank
whilst the Americans were saving her wounded /;
| carrying down IL Of her men and Americans.
The Hornet lost only man killed and wounded.
| 1s10-Death Of Henry Cayendish, the English phi
osopher, who made the discovery Of the composition
of water.
1s09-Drury Lane theater destroyed by fire. It
was built the site Of theater previously burnt in
1871, by Sir Christopher Wren, and cost 42oo 900.
l7s5-Death of Charles Bonaparte, father of Ma
poleon.
| l777-william bod, an English divine, was con-
victed of forgery and sentenced to be hanged.
17e6-Stanislaus, last Duke of Lorraine and Bar,
was accidentally burnt to death by his robe catching
fire.
1762-Great hurricane and snow storm in England
so people pershing in the fields and several whales
stranding on the coasts Of Kent and Essex.
17M-Extraordinary tide in New England; 10 fee
higher at Boston than ever known before.
17l6-Earl Derwentwater and Earl Kenmuir wer
beheaded on Tower Hill, for favoring the Of tn
Pretender.
16s4-Birth Of Handel.
1676-The Indians attacked Medfeld, Mass, burn
ing the town, killing Is men, and carrying wome
and children into captivity.
l665-A Dutch impostor was whipped through th
streets OF London.
MISREPRESENTATION of Francis Of Lorraine, Duk
of Guise.
l541-Pedro de valdivia founded the city Of Sal
tiago, in Chill. ...
154O-Charles the v, of Germany, quelled an i
surrection in Client, by putting to death 2s Of tt
principal citizens.
l525-Battle Of Paiva in Italy, in which the II
perialists, under Bourbon, Pescara, and Lannoy, d
feated the French, and captured their king, Franc
I, whom they sent prisoner to Madrid The xii
fought like lion before taken killing men wi
his own hand.
l495-Jem, son of Sultan Bayazid 1, defeated
his brother in contest for the throne, and given
to Pope Alexander vi, was poisoned by order
that pontif.
146s-Death of John Gutenberg, one of IL
is founders Of printing.
l. 3O3-A Christian was put to death by slow bur
= ing, for tearing down from public place copy
Diocletians decree, con6scating the Christian chur
n. property.