361. JULIAN, the new emperor, made his triumphal entry into the eastern
capital, having traversed with victory the whole continent of Europe,
from the Atlantic.
1282. MICHAEL VIII (_Palæologus_), emperor of Rome, died. He was regent
of the eastern empire, and took advantage of his situation to assume the
supreme power. He retook Constantinople, which had been 58 years under
the power of the French, and labored to reconcile the eastern and
western churches.
1595. PHILIPPE DE CROI, duke of Aarschot, died; a Flemish nobleman and
general, who, in an attempt to free his country of Spanish dictation,
was unsuccessful, and exiled.
1620. The Plymouth adventurers, having sounded the harbor, and found it
fit for shipping, went ashore and explored the adjacent land, where they
saw cornfields and brooks; and judging the situation to be convenient
for a settlement, they returned with the welcome intelligence to the
ship.
1652. DIONYSIUS PETAVIUS died; a French Jesuit of great erudition, and
an author.
1657. Writs issued by Cromwell to sixty individuals, to meet at
Westminister, and compose a house of lords.
1697. JOACHIM KUHNIUS, a learned Pomeranian, died. He was principal of
the college of Octigen, and acquired great celebrity by his
publications.
1699. The king of Sweden defeated the Muscovites at Narva.
1704. ROGER L'ESTRANGE, an English gentleman and scholar, died. He was
unsuccessful in his enterprises in favor of Charles I; but on the
restoration he returned to England, and printed the first regular
English newspaper, 1663, under the title of the _Public Intelligencer_.
He was the author of some political tracts, and translations from
different languages.
1714. GEORGE I, and his cabinet, issued an order forbidding the clergy
to meddle in their sermons with the affairs of state.
1718. CHARLES XII, of Sweden, killed; supposed to have been struck by a
cannon ball in the trenches, at Frederickshall; a fortress which he was
then besieging near the bay of Denmark.
1747. EDMUND CURL died; one of the characters mentioned in Pope's
_Dunciad_. His character for morality was not without blemish, and he
was highly injurious to the literary world, in his profession of book
maker and seller, by his piracies and forgeries. He lost his ears in the
pillory, by sentence of the law, for issuing obscene publications.
1753. The dey of Algiers assassinated by a soldier, as he was
distributing pay to about 300 in the court yard of his palace. The
assassin seated himself in the chair of state, and was taking measures
to secure his power, when he was shot with a carbine.
1756. THEODORE NEWHOFF, king of Corsica, died in England, where he had
been long confined in prison for debt.
1758. The old castle of the Douglasses, so famed in Scottish history,
was accidentally burned to the ground.
1794. Assault on the works of Nijmegen, a strong city of Holland;
general Bushe, of the allies, was killed by an 8lb. cannon ball.
1794. Battle of Roussilon; the Spaniards and Portuguese defeated the
French, killed 800, took 600 prisoners, and 50 cannon.
1806. Saxony erected into a kingdom, under Frederick Augustus, by the
treaty of Posen, between Bonaparte and the elector.
1807. The Dutch fleet burnt at Greisse, in Java, by the British
squadron, under sir Edward Pellew.
1812. Wilna entered by the Russians, where they found vast magazines, 30
cannon, upwards of 5,000 in the hospitals, including some distinguished
officers, and took about 10,000 prisoners.
1813. The French, under SOULT, again repulsed in an attempt to force the
British under lord Wellington to repass the Nieve.
1816. Indiana admitted as a new state into the Union of the United
States.
1828. BERANGER was sentenced by the French court of correctional police,
to pay 10,000 francs ($1,800) fine, and to undergo nine months'
imprisonment, for having attacked the dignity of the church, and of the
king, in his poems.