1589. JOHN STURMIUS, a learned German grammarian and rhetorician, died.
He was called the Cicero of Germany.
1633. GEORGE HERBERT, an English divine and poet, died. Lord Bacon had
so high an opinion of his judgment that he would not suffer his works to
be published until they had been submitted to Herbert's examination.
1634. First colony arrived at Potomac for the settlement of Maryland,
under Lord Baltimore. It consisted of 200 Catholics from England. The
soil was purchased of the natives, and the foundation of the province
was laid on the broad basis of security to property and of freedom in
religion.
1703. ROBERT HOOKE, an English mathematician and philosopher, died. He
is noted for many useful inventions and improvements in mechanics; and
his writings are numerous and valuable.
1722. CAMPEGIO VITRINGA died; a learned author of Friesland, in the
Netherlands.
1728. CAMILLO D'HOSTUN, count de Tallart, died. He was a brave general
of the French, taken prisoner by the duke of Marlborough.
1760. Unsuccessful attack on the fort at Ninety-Six, by 200 Cherokee
Indians.
1776. The Americana under Col. Bull burnt the British ship Inverness and
six other vessels, near Savannah, laden for England.
1779. Battle of Briar Creek, when the Americans were surprised by the
British under Provost, and lost 150 killed and 162 prisoners.
1780. JOSEPH HIGHMORE, an eminent English painter, died. He was also a
writer of considerable merit.
1791. The church plate in France was sent to the mint for coinage.
1792. ROBERT ADAM, a Scotch architect, died. In connection with his
brother, he built some of the first mansions in London; but the work for
which they are chiefly celebrated, is the elegant range called the
_Adelphi_, a Greek word denoting the relationship of brothers.
1796. Civic festival at the Hague on occasion of the installation of the
Batavian national assembly.
1799. The advance guards of the French army arrived before Jaffa (the
ancient Joppa) in Syria, and invested the city.
1802. County of St. Lawrence, in New York, erected.
1808. JOHANN CHRIST FABRICIUS died, one of the most celebrated
entomologists of the eighteenth century. He was born 1742 at Sleswic in
Denmark; studied medicine; but was afterwards induced to make an
especial study of entomology, a science at that time in its infancy. He
adopted a new arrangement of the insect tribe by choosing for his
divisions the modifications observable in the parts of the mouth.
1808. The French West India island Marigalante taken by the British. It
was colonized by the French, 1647; twice taken by the Dutch, and twice
before by the British, and restored to the French, 1763.
1810. The great Elm tree at Kensington, Philadelphia, under which
William Penn held his first treaty with the Indians in 1682, was blown
down.
1815. War declared between the United States and Algiers.
1817. LESCURE died at Beaulieu in France, aged 118. He enjoyed, at the
time of his death, the vigorous use of his intellect.
1843. Com. PORTER, a gallant American naval officer, died at
Constantinople, where he was minister from the United States to the
Sublime Porte.
1845. Florida admitted into the Union as an independent state.
1846. HENRY PURKITT, one of those who assisted in the destruction of the
tea in Boston harbor, died, aged 91.
1855. ROBERT MILLS died, a civil engineer and architect, under whom the
Washington Post office, Treasury building and Patent office were
erected.