1154. Landing of Henry II in England from France.
1229. The _boy bishop_ said vespers before Edward I at Heton near New
Castle upon Tyne. On Childermas the scholars of St. Paul's and other
schools were enjoined to hear the "Chylde Bishop's sermon."
1542. MARY STUART, sole daughter and heir to king James V, born.
1626. JOHN DAVIES, an eminent English lawyer and poet, died. His works
on legal subjects are numerous and valuable.
1641. RALPH BROWNRIG, bishop of Exeter, died. He had the hardihood
boldly to advise Cromwell to restore Charles II to his throne.
1657. CROMWELL sent an agent to the duke of Savoy to negotiate
respecting his protestant subjects.
1666. Ten of the Scottish covenanters executed at Edinburgh.
1672. RICHARD BELLINGHAM, governor of Massachusetts, died. He had
exercised the offices of governor or deputy for 23 years.
1683. ALGERNON SIDNEY, an English patriot and political writer, beheaded
at the age of 66.
1721. BERNARD ALBINUS, a celebrated German physician, died. He was
professor at Frankfort and Leyden.
1741. Revolution in Russia.
1776. British under Cornwallis marched to Princeton.
1787. The deputies of the Delaware state convention signed the
constitution of the United States, which they had agreed by vote to
adopt the day previous. She was the first state that ratified the
instrument.
1796. WASHINGTON met both houses of congress for the last time as
president of the United States.
1799. Battle of Sediman, in Egypt; the French under Dessaix defeated
3,000 Mamelukes and 10,000 Arabs under Murad Bey.
1805. Action off cape St. Mary between the British ship Polyphemus, 64
guns, and Spanish ships Santa Gertruyda, with twelve hundred thousand
dollars on board, and El Felix, valued at nearly one million, both of
which were captured.
1812. BONAPARTE in disguise with Caulincourt arrived at Wilna in a
sledge.
1815. MICHAEL NEY, a French marshal, shot. His career under Bonaparte
was distinguished during ten years, by great military skill and daring
bravery. On the second restoration of the Bourbons he was condemned to
death.
1822. JOHN AIKIN, an English surgeon, died; better known as a writer of
great erudition. He edited the first twenty volumes of the _Monthly
Magazine_, the _Athenæum_, various editions of the poets, and was one of
the writers of the _General Biographical Dictionary_ in 10 vols. quarto.
1832. VICTOR JACQUEMONT, a distinguished French naturalist, died at
Bombay, aged 32.
1835. The rail road from Nuremberg to Furth, the first rail road in
Germany, opened, and the journey made in 15 minutes. The monumental
stone has the inscription: "Germany's first iron rail road, with steam
power, 1835."
1842. THOMAS HAMILTON, the author of _Cyril Thornton_, a contributor to
_Blackwood's Magazine_, &c., died at Pisa, in Italy.
1853. A statue inaugurated to marshal Ney at Paris, on the place where
he was shot on this day of the month, in 1815.