CHRONOLOGY.

1517. Cairo taken by the sultan Selim, who thus became sole master of

Egypt.

1748. The rev. Christopher Pitt, translator of Virgil, died at Blandford

in Dorsetshire, where he was born in 1699.

1814. Charles Burney, Mus.D. F.R.S. &c. author of the “History of

Music,” and other works, which stamp his literary ability, and his

scientific character as a musician, died at Chelsea, aged 88.