1403 Battle of Shrewsbury. In this engagement the Prince of Wales,
afterwards Henry V., made his first essay in arms. The death of
Henry Percy, bettor known as Hotspur, made this battle still more
memorable.
1683 The execution of Lord Russell, for high treason, took place in
Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
1704 Taking of Gibraltar by the English.
1796 Died, at Dumfries, in his thirty-eighth year, _Robert Burns_, the
poet.
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