1200. King JOHN, of England, held a famous parliament at Lincoln, where
William, king of Scotland, did him homage in the sight of the people.
1419. BELTHAZAR COSA (John XXIII), pope, died. There was much opposition
to his elevation, by rival claimants, and he was finally deposed and
imprisoned three years. His liberty was purchased by acknowledging the
election of Martin V.
1586. Sentence of death was announced to MARY queen of Scots, by lord
Burkhurst, at Fotheringay.
1633. LEONARD CALVERT, brother of lord Baltimore, with 200 persons of
good families, Roman catholics, embarked at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight,
for America, to settle Maryland.
1652. The province of Maine was, by the request of its inhabitants,
taken under the protection of Massachusetts; it was made a county, by
the name of Yorkshire, and sent deputies to the general court at Boston.
1680. A brilliant comet appeared in England. First seen at Bristol.
1685. CLAUDE NICOLE, a French lawyer, died. He was a good linguist and
poet, and translated several of the classics.
1714. SAMUEL REYHER died; professor of mathematics and jurisprudence at
Kiel, and counselor of state to the duke of Saxe Gotha. His writings are
theological.
1723. PHILIP, regent of France, duke of Orleans, &c., died at
Versailles, aged 50.
1747. JOSEPH TRAPP, an able English divine, died; leaving behind him an
excellent character as a critic, a scholar, a preacher and a man.
1771. Mr. STEPHEN was expelled from the Temple in London, by the
benches, for writing a book on the impolicy of imprisonment for debt.
1774. ROBERT CLIVE, baron Plassy, a wealthy English nobleman, died by
suicide; a striking instance of the insufficiency of wealth or external
honors alone to produce happiness. While a colonel in the service of the
East India company, he retook Calcutta from the nabob Surajah Dowlah,
and defeated his immense army in the plains of Plassy, and thereby laid
the foundation of the present extensive British empire in Hindostan. He
was made governor of India, and died immensely rich.
1775. CHARLES HENRY DE FUSSE DE VOISENON, a French ecclesiastic, died.
He abandoned his profession for the pleasures of the world and of
authorship, and his works were collected in 5 vols.
1775. The Americans, about 1000 in number, took possession of Cobble or
Miller's hill, near Boston, and erected entrenchments on it.
1784. PAUL FRISI, an Italian mathematician and philosopher, died at
Milan. He was self-taught; and introduced into the Milanese the use of
conductors to secure buildings from lightning, and contributed greatly
to root out the superstitious notions of the people respecting sorcerers
and magic. His works on hydraulics, astronomy, and many other sciences,
are numerous and valuable.
1795. Battle of Loano, in Italy; the French under Scherer defeated the
Austrians and obliged them to retreat with the loss of 8,000.
1798. THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, an Irishman having a commission in the French
army, committed suicide in prison. He had been taken in arms against the
British government, tried by a court martial, and sentenced to death.
1807. British Admiral SMITH declared Lisbon and the river Tagus in a
state of blockade.
1812. Action between the United States brig Vixen, 14 guns, 120 men,
Lieut. Reed, and British frigate Southampton, 32 guns, Capt. Yeo. The
Vixen was captured, and Lieut. Reed died in the West Indies before he
could be exchanged.
1814. LAVALETTE, the French general, sentenced to death for joining
Bonaparte the preceding March.
1814. EDWARD RUSHTON, an independent politician, bookseller and elegant
writer, died. He nearly lost his sight on the west coast of Africa.
1815. JAMES LACKINGTON, a celebrated London bookseller, but chiefly
distinguished for his work on the evil consequences of girls being
educated at boarding schools, died.
1821. ANSELM MARIE FUGGER, prince of Babenhausen, died. He was one of
that great German family whose ancestor was a weaver, and which now
consists of counts and princes, and whose property amounts to about 440
square miles, with 40,000 inhabitants.
1824. FRANCIS LEVAILLANT, the celebrated traveler, died at Paris, aged
70. He was born in the Dutch colony of Surinam. He early manifested a
passion for the study of ornithology, and was encouraged by the
patronage of Tenemink, of Amsterdam, to proceed to Africa in pursuit of
that science. His long life was spent in research, and though he has
added much to the stock of knowledge in that department, he was so
unfortunate as to lose a great part of his valuable collections at sea.
1848. Great battle fought between the English and Seikhs near Ramuggur,
in India, the British claiming the dearly bought victory.
1852. The shock of an earthquake was felt very severely at Exeter, N.
H., and along the valley of the Merrimack, and in Salem and Newburyport,
Mass., and in other places.
1852. The voting concluded throughout France and Algeria, upon the
decree of the senate, relative to the reestablishment of the empire. The
result was 7,824,189 votes in favor of the same, and 253,145 in the
negative, and 63,326 void ballots.