67 B. C. Jotopata, in Judea, captured by the Romans under Vespasian, on
the first of Panemus, in the 13th year of Nero. The city was demolished,
entombing 40,000 Jews, the number of slain.
1205. HENRY DANDOLO, duke of Venice, died. He was a brave admiral, who
took Constantinople, 1203, and had the moderation to refuse the imperial
dignity.
1204. Rouen, the capital of Normandy, conquered by the French, which
with the Dutchy had been separated from France for 300 years.
1450. JACK CADE'S rebellion broke out in England.
1533. ANN BOLEYN crowned queen of England.
1571. Dr. JOHN STORY, an unrelenting persecutor of the protestants, was
executed at Tyburn. On the accession of Elizabeth he fled to Flanders,
and used all the influence he possessed to injure the trade of his
native country.
1572. _Ovid's Elegies_ burned at Stationer's hall by the order of the
bishops of Canterbury and London.
1572. THOMAS, duke of Norfolk, executed for high treason. He was the
first subject in England by rank, and the qualities of his mind
corresponded with his high station. He fell a victim to love and
ambition, in attempting to marry Mary Stuart.
1593. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, an English dramatist and poet, murdered in an
affray. He was accounted an excellent poet in his time.
1603. A man was whipped through London for going to court when his house
was infected by plague. In this visitation 30,244 persons died. James I,
to avoid this plague retired to Wilton.
1638. Earthquake in New England; it occurred in the afternoon, and was
so violent as to shake down movable articles in houses, and formed a
memorable epoch in the annals of the country.
1660. MARY DYER executed. She was a quakeress, who had been banished
from Massachusetts, and on her return was sentenced to death for
"rebellious sedition and obtruding herself after banishment on pain of
death."
1666. Great naval action between the Dutch under de Ruyter and Tromp,
and English prince, Rupert, which continued four days with great fury,
and the victory was claimed by both parties.
1679. GRAHAM of Claverhouse defeated by the Scottish covenanters at
Drumclog, Scotland.
1740. SAMUEL WERENFELS, a Swiss professor and author, died; respected
for his learning and many virtues.
1743. ROBERT LE LORRAINE, a celebrated French sculptor, died.
1764. The French carried off all the inhabitants of Turk's island, in
the West Indies, with 9 English vessels.
1769. EDWARD HOLYOKE, president of Harvard college, died; an excellent
mathematician and natural philosopher.
1774. Boston port bill went into operation. Business closed at noon, and
the harbor was shut against all vessels. The citizens, on a short notice
of 20 days, were deprived of the means of gaining a subsistence.
Contributions were raised in other cities for their relief, and the
inhabitants of Marblehead offered the merchants the use of their
wharves. Universal indignation spread through the colonies against this
high handed measure of the British king and parliament.
1780. American privateer Pickering, 16 guns, Capt. Harridon, captured
British ship, Golden Eagle, 22 guns.
1783. CHARLES BYRNE, the Irish giant, died. His height was 8 feet 2
inches. (See May 13, 1781, Roger Byrne).
1785. JOHN ADAMS, the first minister of the United States of America to
England, was presented to the king.
1791. The United States army under gen. Chas. Scott entered the Kikapoo
villages, on the Wabash, and taking the Indians by surprise,
exterminated their villages, killed and took many prisoners. He returned
without the loss of a man killed by the enemy. These savages committed
great depredations on the frontiers, and refused all terms of peace.
1792. Kentucky admitted into the Union with the consent of Virginia.
1793. The armed Parisians again assembled with cannon around the
convention, and demanded the arrest of the Brissotine party. The decree
of accusation was passed.
1793. The death of Richard Crutwell, the well known editor of the _Bath
Chronicle_, took place at Cheltenham, England.
1794. Action between the French fleet, 26 ships of the line, under
Joyeuse, and the British fleet, 25 ships, under lord Howe. The French
were defeated with great loss.
1795. PETER JOSEPH DESAULT, a noted French surgeon, died.
1796. Tennessee admitted into the Union.
1797. Desperate engagement between an Algerine cruiser of 18 guns, well
manned, and a Corsican frigate of 26 nine and twelve pounders. The
action began at 7 in the morning, and was continued with unremitted
obstinacy until 3 in the afternoon, when a sloop and cutter coming up,
the frigate was towed off in a disabled condition, and the pirate being
completely riddled, they fired the magazine, and blew themselves up. The
Algerine had a number of Christian captives on board, and was commanded
by Sidney Beder, the terror of the Spanish coast.
1805. Detroit destroyed by fire. The houses on 25 streets were consumed;
16 persons lost their lives, and the cattle, generally shared the same
fate.
1807. Niesse, a Prussian fortress in Silesia, taken by the French under
Jerome Bonaparte, with 3,000 prisoners, and about 300 cannon.
1811. WILLIAM EATON, an American general, died; celebrated for his
heroic achievements in the expedition against Tripoli, 1798.
1813. Action between the United States frigate Chesapeake, 36 guns,
Capt. Lawrence, 2 days out from Boston, with a raw crew, and British
frigate Shannon, 38 guns, and a picked crew. The Chesapeake was
captured, with the loss of Capt. Lawrence and 146 killed and wounded,
British loss 84.
1815. ALEXANDER BERTHIER, a distinguished French officer, killed. He
served in America during the revolutionary war, and afterwards
signalized his talents and bravery under Bonaparte, who placed unlimited
confidence in him.
1832. THOMAS SUMTER, a distinguished officer of the revolution, died,
aged 97.
1833. RENE SAVARY, duke of Rovigo, died; one of the ministers of France
under Bonaparte.
1833. OLIVER WOLCOTT died; a statesman under Washington, and 10 years
successively governor of Connecticut.
1833. Cholera broke out at Lexington, Ky., number of deaths to August
1st, 502.
1835. OTHO, king of Greece, his minority having ended, ascended the
throne at Athens, with appropriate ceremonies.
1839. Port Gibson, Miss., destroyed by fire.
1841. DAVID WILKIE, an excellent Scottish painter, died at Gibraltar, on
his return from Egypt, aged 56. He was the author of many celebrated
works in his profession.
1843. Dr. JAMES HAGAN, a native of Ireland, but for several years a
citizen of the United States, fell in a street fight in Vicksburgh,
Miss., provoked by the violence of his language as an editor.
1846. Pope GREGORY XVI died. His pontificate was 15 years.
1846. A convention of delegates to revise the constitution of New York
met at Albany.
1847. The steamer Washington, first of the Collins or American line,
sailed from New York.
1848. Defeat of the Danes by the Germans.
1852. A submarine telegraph wire coated with gutta percha, was laid
across the channel, from Holyhead, a distance of 80 miles, by which
telegraphic communication was completed from London to Dublin.
1854. Four British steamers attacked and destroyed the ships, dockyards
and stores at Uleaborg.
1854. EMILY CHUBBUCK, widow of Adoniram Judson, died at Hamilton, N. Y.;
better known as Fanny Forrester, an accomplished woman, and a writer of
considerable celebrity.
1855. The republic of Nicaragua issued a manifesto, proclaiming "martial
law and prohibiting the adventurers Kinney and Fabens," on pain of death
from entering the republic for any cause.