OCTOBER 30th.-George III. assaulted by a mob. 1795.

"If the tag-rag people did not clap him, and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them."

JULIUS CÆSAR, Act i., Scene 2.

OCTOBER 31st.--Empress Irene banished to Lesbos.

802.

"The hopeless word of-never to return, Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life." RICHARD II., Act i., Scene 3.

November.

NOVEMBER 1st.-Lisbon destroyed by

an earthquake. 1755.

"This is the way to lay the city flat,

To bring the roof to the foundation;

And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruins!"

CORIOLANUS, Act iii., Scene 1.

NOVEMBER 2d.-All-souls' Day. 1849,

et al.

"This is All-soul's day, fellows, is it not?"

RICHARD III., Act v., Scene 1.

NOVEMBER 3d.-Drake returned from circumnavigating the globe. 1577.

"He has had most favorable and happy speed; Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,

The guttered rocks and congregated sands,

Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel, -do omit

Their mortal natures, letting go safely by."

OTHELLO, Act ii., Scene 1.

NOVEMBER 4th.-Gustavus Adolphus

killed in battle. 1632.

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'Why, then, God's soldier be he!
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,

I would not wish them to a fairer death;
And so his knell is knoll'd.”

MACBETH, Act v., Scene 7.

NOVEMBER 5th.-"Gunpowder Plot"

"If of life you keep a care,

Shake off slumber and beware:

Awake! awake!"

TEMPEST, Act ii., Scene 2.

NOVEMBER 6th.-The Princess Charlotte

died.

1817.

"Now boast! thee, death in thy possession lies A loss unparallel'd. Downy windows, close! And golden Phoebus never be beheld

Of eyes again so royal.”

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, Act v., Scene 2.

NOVEMBER 7th.-A meteoric stone fell,

weighing 260 pounds. 1492.

"The gods throw stones."

CYMBELINE, Act v., Scene 5.

NOVEMBER 8th.

headed.

1793.

Madame Roland be

"What's brave, what's noble,

Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us."

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, Act iv., Scene 13.

NOVEMBER 9th.-Shaftesbury dismissed from the Chancellorship. 1673.

"How! What does his cashiered worship mut

ter ?"

CORIOLANUS, Act v., Scene 1.

NOVEMBER 10th.-Luther born.

"You gods will give us

Some faults, to make us men."

1483.

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, Act v., Scene 1.

NOVEMBER 11th.-St. Martin's day, and the day on which the siege of Orleans was commenced. 1428.