mine explosion at the Felling colliery near Jarrow, England, leaves 96 dead. February 12, 1814 – A fire destroys the Custom House in London. October – A large vat full of porter (beer) owned by Meux's Brewery of London bursts, demolishing houses and killing 9 people. See London Beer Flood. May 30, 1815 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board. September 23, 1815 – The Great September Gale of 1815 is the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years. October 3, 1815 – The Chassigny Mars meteorite falls in Chassigny, Haute-Marne, France. February 12, 1816 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. July 17, 1816 – The French passenger ship Medusa'' runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government. June 25, 1817 – A large riot breaks out in Copenhagen Prison; the army is sent to quell it. 1817 – A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Establishments 1812 – The Bishop James Madison Society is founded at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. August 7, 1814 – Pope Pius VII decrees the bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum reestablishing the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) all over the world, after having approved their survival and existence in Russia. February 4, 1815 – The first Dutch student association, the Groninger Studenten Corps, Vindicat atque Polit is founded in the Netherlands. The first rector of the senate was B.J. Winter. April 11, 1816 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches. 1816 – Rammohun Roy founds Hindu College in Calcutta, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects. April 15, 1817 – The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut. May, 1817 – The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founds the General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City. November 11, 1818 – Anglo-Chinese College is founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca (later renamed Ying Wa College). January 25, 1819 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. August 6, 1819 – Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as