1513. HENRY VIII embarked with his forces at Dover for the invasion of
France, appointing his "most dear consort, queen Catharine, rectrix and
governor of the realm."
1520. MONTEZUMA, the Mexican monarch, died. The situation of the
Spaniards becoming desperate, Cortez persuaded the captive monarch to
address his people from a terrace, and request them to desist from their
attacks and allow the Spaniards to evacuate the city. The Indians were
silent while he spoke, but answered that they had promised their gods
never to stop till the Spaniards were totally destroyed. A shower of
stones and arrows then fell about the spot where he stood, which were
warded off by the shields of the soldiers. At the moment they removed
their shields, that the king might renew his address, three stones and
an arrow struck him to the ground. He died, less of his wounds than of
sorrow and indignation, at the age of 54.
1543. Battle of Atherton moor, in England; lord Fairfax defeated by the
royalists, and totally routed.
1607. CÆSAR BARONIUS, an Italian cardinal, died. His works are numerous
and valuable, especially the _Ecclesiastical Annals_, 12 vols. folio.
1666. ALEXANDER DE BROME, an English poet, died; author of innumerable
odes and sonnets written during the English revolution, in which the
round heads are treated with great keenness and severity.
1670. HENRIETTA, duchess of Orleans, and sister to king Charles II, died
in her 26th year. Suspicions were entertained that she had been poisoned
by her husband for infidelity.
1685. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, duke of Argyle, beheaded at Edinburgh for
seditious measures. His father was also beheaded there 24 years before,
as a traitor.
1690. Battle of Fleurus, in the Netherlands; the allies defeated by the
French under Luxembourg, with the loss of 6,000 killed, 8,000 prisoners,
and all their artillery and baggage.
1690. The Dutch and English fleets under Torrington, engaged the French
fleet off Beachey head, and were defeated. English loss 2 ships, 400
men; Dutch loss 2 admirals, 6 ships; the king, William, was wounded by a
cannon ball.
1694. ADAM LITTLETON, an excellent English philologist and grammarian,
died.
1697. THOMAS POPE BLOUNT died; an eminent English writer and a man of
great learning and research.
1703. Battle of Eeckeren, between the French and confederated armies of
the English and Dutch, in which the slaughter on both sides was very
great.
1733. Twenty sail of merchant ships destroyed by a hurricane at St.
Christophers.
1734. Dantzic, in Prussia, surrendered to the Russians.
1777. British evacuated Amboy, N. J., and encamped opposite, on Staten
island.
1785. JAMES OGLETHORPE, the first governor of Georgia, died in England,
aged 97. He took an active part in the settlement of Georgia, and
founded the town of Savannah. He displayed great courage and address in
protecting the colony from incursions of the Spaniards.
1797. RICHARD PARKER hanged; author of the noted rebellion in the
English fleet at the Nore.
1797. The chief officers of the Cisalpine republic installed by
Bonaparte. This like the French republic, was but of short continuance.
1802. Treaty of Buffalo creek, when the Senecas sold their land west of
Genesee river to the state.
1803. Two British ships captured off St. Domingo the French frigate
Creole, 44 guns, having on board 100 blood hounds for the French army
against the blacks.
1815. Action in the strait of Sunda, between United States sloop of war
Peacock, and British king's ship Nautilus. The latter was captured in 15
minutes, but was given up next day, as hostilities had ceased twelve
days before between the two countries.
1815. Treaty of peace concluded between the United States and Algiers,
in which the dey relinquished the payment of tribute to the Algerines,
released the prisoners, and made restitution for American property
captured by his cruisers.
1815. Allied army from the heights of Belleville, commenced their
attacks on Paris.
1817. The Prussian government prohibited the further use of the term
_protestant_ in the country, as being obsolete and unmeaning, since the
protestants did not any longer protest, and ordered the word
_evangelical_ to be substituted for it.
1817. CHRISTOPHER DANIEL EBELING, a German geographer, died. His great
work, the _Geography and History of North America_, was completed and
published at Hamburg 1799, in 5 vols. His collection of books in
relation to America, nearly 4,000 in number, were purchased by Israel
Thorndike of Boston, and presented to Harvard college.
1821. JOSE FERNANDEZ ABASCAL died, aged 78; long engaged in the military
service of Spain, and viceroy of Peru during the early part of the war
of independence in South America.
1831. WILLIAM ROSCOE, an English biographer and miscellaneous writer,
died. He was of humble parentage, but his lives of Lorenzo the
Magnificent, and Leo X, give him an exalted and enduring reputation.
1832. Silistria, in Bulgaria, surrendered to the Russians. The trophies
were 8,000 prisoners, 2 three-tailed pashas, 250 cannon, &c.
1835. BENJAMIN PRITCHARD, the Kentucky giant, died. His disease was
dropsy; his weight 525 pounds.
1840. The sub-treasury, or independent treasury bill passed the house of
representatives in congress, by a vote of 124 to 105.
1855. The yellow fever became epidemic in New Orleans.