1854: David (Don) Pacifico, the merchant made famous in the Do | This day in jew history

1854: David (Don) Pacifico, the merchant made famous in the Don Pacifico Affair died.
The affair was a diplomatic episode which occurred in Greece when in 1847 the Greek minister, Coletti, in deference to James Rothschild who was in Athens at the time, prohibited the people of Athens from burning a wooden effigy of Judas Iscariot on the Friday before Easter as was the yearly custom. Riots broke out and Pacifico's, who was the former Portuguese consul-general to Greece but also a British subject, house was destroyed.
Pacifico appealed to Sir Edmund Lyons, British Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece for relief, whining in a letter:
"These brigands, in number about 300 or 400, entered my house, and swearing dreadfully, began beating my wife, my innocent children, and my son-in-law. After having broken the windows, doors, tables, chairs, and every other article of furniture, they robbed me of my jewels, forcing open the closets in which were vases, candlesticks, gold and silver ornaments, diamonds, and lastly a box containing money to the amount of 9,800 drachmas, of which 2,300 were my own private property, and 7,500 which had been deposited with me by the jewish community of Italy for the projected erection of a temple."
The British government took up Pacifico's cause and 2 years later nearly caused a diplomatic conflict with Russia and France, but later pared down its claims.
The Greek government finally agreed to compensate the Internationalist after being blockaded by British navy for 2 months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Pacifico_affair?wprov=sfla1