47 B. C. PTOLEMY DIONYSIUS, king of Egypt, drowned in the Nile. His name
is rendered execrable to the latest posterity for the murder of Pompey,
his benefactor.
1306. ROBERT BRUCE crowned king of Scotland at Scone. Edward had carried
off the national diadem, so that one was manufactured for the occasion,
which was placed upon the head of the liberator by Isabella, countess of
Buchan, a descendant of Macduff.
1350. ALPHONSO II of Castile died at Gibraltar. He is famous for his
wars with the Moors, in which 200,000 of them were slain.
1546. JOHN DIAZ, a Spaniard, murdered at Neuberg, Germany. He embraced
the doctrines of the reformers, and while on a visit to Calvin was met
by his brother, who, being unable to reconvert him, hired an assassin to
dash out his brains with an axe while in bed at night.
1563. A bill brought into the house of commons, permitting the Bible and
church service to be translated into the Welsh or British tongue and
used in the church of Wales. The New Testament in Welsh appeared in
1567, in quarto, 339 pages in black letter.
1614. An octroy passed the States General of the United Netherlands, for
regulating voyages to America, under which Adrian Block, Hendrick
Corstiaensen, and Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, distinguished themselves by
their adventures.
1617. FRANCIS BACON made lord chancellor of England, in place of
Ellesmere, who died within a fortnight of his resignation. The new
chancellor soon disgusted the public by his vanity, love of show,
meanness and corruption.
1622. The Indians, by a preconcerted conspiracy, fell upon the Virginia
colony, 347 of whom, unresisting and defenceless, were massacred with
indiscriminate barbarity. This massacre was plotted by Opecancanough,
and was followed by an exterminating war between the parties.
1625. JAMES VI of Scotland (I of England) died, aged 59. He was the son
of Mary and Lord Darnley, and succeeded to the throne at an early age.
In 1603 he succeeded to the crown of England, on the death of Elizabeth.
It was during his reign that the famous plot was concerted for blowing
up the king and parliament. It was also during his reign, and through
his weakness, that Walter Raleigh lost his life. He was an encourager of
learning, though a pedant himself. The translation of the Bible in
present use bears his sanction and authority.
1634. LEONARD CALVERT, having been appointed governor of Maryland by his
brother Lord Baltimore, arrived with two hundred settlers, and settled
the town of St. Marys, establishing religious liberty and granting lots
of fifty acres to each emigrant.
1654. Monsieur BOURDEAUX, ambassador extraordinary from the king of
France to Cromwell, arrived in London, and on obtaining an audience,
recognized the principle that God shows his love to men by giving them
wise rulers.
1660. TOBIAS VENNER, an English physician, died. His medical works were
popular, and for talent are above mediocrity.
1669. Mount Trumento formed of an indurated mass of lava by the great
eruption of mount Etna.
1676. Battle of Patuxet, between fifty English and twenty friendly
Indians under Capt. Pierce, and six hundred of Philip's Indians. The
English were drawn into an ambush, or deceived in the force of their
enemies, and making an error in drawing down by the side of the river to
prevent being surrounded, the Indians crossed over, and galled them from
the opposite side, so that they were constrained to fight it out to the
last.
1699. EDWARD STILLINGFLEET, an eminent English prelate, died. His first
work was entitled _Weapon Salve for the Church's Wounds_, which was ably
written, notwithstanding the quaintness of the title. His works were
principally polemical, and were published in 6 vols. folio.
1710. SACHEVERELL'S two sermons burnt before the Royal Exchange in the
presence of the lord mayor of London, and he himself forbid to preach
for 3 years.
1718. MARY BEATRIX ELEONORA D'ESTE, queen dowager to King James II of
England, died at St. Germain en Laye.
1729. LEOPOLD, duke of Lorrain, died. He was noted for his military
abilities, by which he recovered his country, and governed his subjects
with wisdom and justice. He was also a liberal patron of the arts and
sciences.
1756. French burnt fort Bull, Oneida county, New York.
1771. A. MCDOUGAL discharged by the supreme court of New York, after
having been subjected to imprisonment as the author of a newspaper
article signed _A Son of Liberty_.
1778. NICHOLAS SEBASTIAN ADAM, a French sculptor, died. He was the
second of three brothers who enjoyed some reputation as sculptors in
France in the early part of the last century. His principal works are
the tomb for the wife of Stanislaus of Poland, and Prometheus chained.
1782. CARACCIOLI, the viceroy of Sicily, abolished the inquisition
there, and destroyed the archives.
1793. The French Gen. DUMOURIER, in a conference with Austrian Col.
Mack, at Ath, resolved to march back on Paris and establish the
constitutional monarchy of 1791.
1794. JACOB NICHOLAS MOREAU, historiographer of France, guillotined at
the age of 77. He was also librarian to the queen, an able writer, and
attached to the royal cause.
1794. Convention between Denmark and Sweden, for the mutual defence of
their rights.
1802. Treaty of Amiens signed between England, Spain, France and the
Batavian republic.
1805. The county of Lewis, in northern New York, erected.
1809. Sullivan county, New York, erected.
1809. An eruption of mount Etna.
1811. Battle of Anhalt in the Cattegat strait. The island was attacked
by 4000 Danes, who were repulsed by 350 British, with the loss of 6
cannon and 500 prisoners.
1814. Battle of Horse-Shoe, at the bend of the Tallepoosie river,
between the United States troops under Gen. Jackson, and the Creek
Indians. The latter were defeated with the loss of about 800 killed; U.
S. loss 91 killed, 268 wounded.
1829. The zoological society of London in Bruton street incorporated.
1839. All the opium belonging to British subjects in China, amounting to
20,283 chests, valued at about $9,000,000, was surrendered up to Capt.
Elliot, superintendent of the British trade, for the purpose of being
destroyed, in obedience to the orders of the Chinese government.
1847. METHUSELAH BALDWIN died at Scotchtown, New York, aged 84; he was
licensed to preach in 1791 by the presbytery of Newark.
1854. WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH SCOTT BENTINCK, duke of Portland, a
British statesman, died, aged 84.
1856. N. S. PRIME, a New York divine, died, aged 70; known as the author
of a history of Long Island.
1857. CHARLES III, duke of Parma, aged 31, died at Turin of a wound
given by an assassin in the streets the night previous.