1159. ADRIAN IV (_Nicholas Brekespere_), pope, died. He was the only
Englishman ever elected to the office.
1611. The crew of HENRY HUDSON, who had mutinied and put him adrift in
an open boat, were picked up by a fisherman, in a wretched condition.
Their best sustenance left, while on their voyage, was seaweed fried
with candles' ends, and the skins of fowls. They were in such a state of
starvation that only one of them had strength to lie on the helm and
steer the ship. It appears that they had quarreled among themselves, and
met with a fearful retribution.
1620. The English pilgrims sailed from Plymouth in the Mayflower, for
the American continent, intending to find some place near Hudson's river
for a settlement.
1633. ANTONIO QUERENGHI, an Italian poet, died.
1641. The Raritans made an attack upon the colony of Staten island, and
murdered the colonists, in revenge for previous depredations by the
Dutch.
1651. Dundee, in Scotland, taken by storm by general Monk. "Mounche
commaundit all, of quhatsummever sex to be putt to the edge of the
sword. There were 800 inhabitants and soldiers killed, and about 200
women and children. The plounder and buttie they gat in the towne,
exceeded two millions and a half."
1675. The Indians under the notorious king Philip fell upon the town of
Deerfield, in Massachusetts, killed one man, and laid most of the town
in ashes.
1682. WILLIAM PENN sailed for America in the ship Welcome, 300 tons
burthen, with about a hundred other emigrants, mostly quakers.
1685. LEOLINE JENKINS, an able English civilian and statesman, died.
1687. HENRY MORE, an English philosopher and poet, died. His works once
enjoyed a high reputation.
1697. The imperialists, commanded by prince Eugene, defeated the Turks
at Zentha; the grand vizier and upwards of 20,000 men killed.
1715. LOUIS XIV, of France, died. His reign is marked as an era of
magnificence, learning and licentiousness, in France; and he left behind
him monuments of unprecedented splendor and expense, in palaces,
gardens, &c.
1715. FRANCIS GIRANDON, an eminent French sculptor and architect, died.
1720. EUSEBUS RENAUDOT, a distinguished French orientalist, died.
1721. JOHN KIELL, an eminent Scottish mathematician and philosopher,
died. His works are numerous and in high repute.
1729. RICHARD STEELE, an English writer and politician, died; "justly
celebrated as an essayist, just remembered as a dramatist, and almost
forgotten as a politician."
1730. A new volcano opened at Temanfaya, in the isle of Lanzerota.
1731. French erected a fort at Crown point, on lake Champlain.
1755. MAURICE GREENE, an eminent English music composer, died. He
undertook an important reformation in church music which he did not live
to effect.
1766. PETER ANICH, a Tyrolese peasant, astronomer and geographer, died.
He followed the occupation of a farmer till the age of 28, after which
he commenced his scientific career.
1771. CUTHBERT SHAW died; an English poet of "humble origin, but of
superior attainments, and inferior to no writer of ancient or modern
times."
1774. General GAGE seized the powder at Charlestown, in consequence of
which the people rose and compelled several officers of the king's
government to resign.
1776. LEWIS HENRY CHRISTOPHER HOLTY, an Excellent German poet, died. "In
tender elegiac or idylic poetry, he is peculiary successful."
1779. French fleet, count d'Estaing, captured off Charleston, S. C.,
British ship Experiment, 50 guns, and three frigates.
1784. JOHN FRANCIS SEGUIER, a distinguished French botanist, and
president of the academy of Nismes, died.
1787. JOHN BAKE, an eminent Dutch philosopher and Latin writer, was born
at Leyden. His last work was an edition of _Cicero de Legibus_.
1793. A fine marble bust of John Milton, the poet, was placed in the
church at Cripplegate.
1801. ROBERT BAGE, an English novelist of considerable merit, died.
1804. The planet Juno discovered by Harding, of Germany. Her diameter is
1,425 miles, and she performs a very eccentric orbit round the sun in 4
years and 128 days.
1804. JAMES NICHOLSON, an officer in the American navy during the war of
the revolution, died.
1806. PATRICK O'BRYEN, the Irish giant, died at Bristol, England. His
height was 8 feet, 5 inches.
1814. Champlain village taken possession of by the British under
Provost.
1814. Fort Castine, on the Penobscot, and several places taken by the
British under Sherwood and admiral Griffith.
1814. United States sloop of war Wasp, captain Blakely, fell in with 10
sail of British vessels convoyed by a 74, and bomb ship. He cut out of
the convoy a brig laden with military stores, and burnt her, and sunk
the brig Avon, of 19 guns.
1818. The state prison at Auburn, N. Y., opened.
1831. GEORGE FULTON, author of an improved system of education and a
popular pronouncing dictionary, died near New Haven, Scotland.
1838. WILLIAM CLARKE died; the companion of Lewis in the pioneer journey
across the Rocky mountains. He was held in the highest estimation by
nearly all the tribes of western Indians, however remote, whose
character he well understood. He was several years governor of Missouri,
and at the time of his death the oldest American settler residing in St.
Louis.
1841. JOSEPH NOURSE died; a soldier of the revolution, one of the
vice-presidents of the American Bible society, and 40 years register of
the United States treasury.
1849. The deaths registered in London for the week, were 2,796;
exceeding those of any previous week, and nearly three times the average
of the season. Of the number, 1,663 were by cholera, and 234 by
diarrhea.
1851. ANTONIO LOPEZ, who attempted to affect a revolution in Cuba, was
garotted at Havana.
1851. The rail road in Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow, was
inaugurated.
1853. LOUIS CHITTI, an Italian exile, died in New York. He was secretary
of finance to Murat, afterwards professor of political economy at
Brussels; then commissioner to the United States from Belgium. During
the troubles of 1821 at Naples, he was expelled, and resided in this
country.
1855. WILLIAM CRANCH, an eminent American judge, died at Washington, D.
C., aged 86. He published 9 vols. of cases in the supreme court, and was
highly respected for his talents and learning.