The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. Joel Munsell
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1661. Julius Mazarin died; cardinal and prime minister of France under Louis XIV. His name is identified with the history of his time.
1678. Ghent surrendered to Louis XIV of France.
1679. A declaration forbidding pardon to be granted to any who killed another in a duel, issued by the council of England.
1694. Gaspard Sagittarius, a German historian, died. He was an able supporter of the doctrines of the reformation.
1735. Violent hurricane occurred at Kilverton in Norfolk rolling the lead of the roofs of houses and doing in the few minutes it lasted, incredible damage. A strong smell of sulphur followed.
1762. Joseph Calas, a merchant of Toulouse, executed on the wheel. He was unjustly condemned for the murder of his own son. His innocence was confirmed by a public arret, on this day the next year.
1770. William Guthries, a voluminous Scottish writer, died. He became celebrated as a bookmaker, and lent his name to the works of less popular authors.
1778. Great council at Johnstown between the Six nations and New York company.
1782. Mangalore, a seaport of Hindostan, surrendered to the British under General Matthews.
1783. Michael Etmuller, a German physician, died. His works have been published in 5 vols. folio.
1793. Congress passed the act to organize the militia; enacting the enrollment of every able bodied white male citizen between the ages of 18 and 45.
1795. The Fingal, or 118th regiment, mutinied at Birmingham, England.
1796. Charette, the famous Vendean chief, tried and shot at Nantes, aged about 33. He refused to have his eyes bandaged, and gave the signal to fire himself.
1801. Johann Christian Ackermann, a celebrated German physician and bibliographer, died, aged 45.
1810. London rendered impassable for several hours by a heavy rain.
1811. Battle of Pombal, in Portugal, in which the French were defeated with the loss of 470, by the British.
1812. John Henry's plot to dismember the Union disclosed to congress. Henry received $50,000 public money for disclosing it, and sailed immediately for France.
1814. Battle of Laon, in which Napoleon was defeated by Marshal Blucher.
1822. Edward Daniel Clarke, professor of mineralogy at Cambridge and a celebrated traveler and tourist, died.
1823. John Henry Van Swinden, a Dutch philosopher, died. He was an author on various subjects, and a man of great erudition.
1825. Anna Letitia Barbauld, an English authoress of great reputation in her day, died. She was early taught the languages, and became distinguished for her learning. She retained great vigor of mind and body to the extreme age of 90.
1834. Snow fell at Rome, the first event of the kind on record in 240 years. (See March 25, 1595.)
1840. George Gleig died at Stirling, Scotland, aged 87; distinguished for more than half a century as a scholar, critic, metaphysician and theologian.
1847. Battle of Vera Cruz.
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222. Heliogabalus, emperor of Rome, assassinated. He was a cruel, vindictive and licentious tyrant.
1333. Ladislaus III of Poland died. He oppressed the people till they revolted and placed Wenceslaus upon the throne. On the death of the latter he was reinstated and governed with justice and moderation.
1668. John Denham, a British poet, died. One of his poems, Cooper's Hill, is commended by the ablest critics.
1673. Henrietta Coligni, a French poetess of much celebrity, died.
1683. The first council and assembly of Pennsylvania met at Chester. The session occupied 22 days.
1686. James II granted a general pardon to many of his subjects, excepting among others the girls of Taunton who gave a Bible and sword to Monmouth. James never favored the Bible.
1726. The Lyford giant born; when five years of age he could lift one hundred weight with one hand.
1736. William Cosby, captain general and commander in chief of the province of New York, died, almost universally detested.
1774. William Browne, an English physician, died. The active part he took in the contest against the licentiates, occasioned his being introduced by Foote into his play of the Devil upon Two Sticks. He is distinguished by many lively essays in English, and Latin prose and verse.
1776. Elias Catherine Freron, a French litterateur, died. He was the constant subject of Voltaire's satire, who called him the tyrant, rather than the king of literature.
1776. The British soldiery, contrary to orders, plundered Boston.
1783, Anthony Loydi, a farmer of Amezquet, Spain, died, aged 114. He had never been sick until a few days before his death, always abstained from wine and tobacco, and retained his senses, his teeth and hair until he died.
1785. N. Sablier, an eminent French author, died at Paris.
1789. The city of London brilliantly illuminated on account of the convalescence of the king.
1792. John, earl of Bute, died. He was made prime minister of England, from which he voluntarily retired to enjoy a life of learned leisure.
1797. The city of Albany made the capital of the state of New York.
1797. Delaware county, in the state of New York, erected.
1812. Bonaparte issued a decree denationalizing all flags that should submit to the British orders in council.
1813. Action at night in Chesapeake bay between the United States schooner Adeline and the British schooner Lottery; the latter it is supposed was sunk.
1819. Frederick Henry Jacobi, a German philosophical writer, died.
1820. Benjamin West, the painter, died at London, aged 82. He was born at Springfield, Penn., 1738. The first indications of his genius were elicited at the age of seven years, by drawing the portrait of his sleeping sister in red and black ink. He began painting as a profession at the age of 18, and four years after went to England. He was subsequently induced by Sir Joshua Reynolds to take up his residence in London, where he acquired a reputation seldom attained, and at the time of his death was president of the Royal academy.
1826. John Pinkerton, an eminent and voluminous Scottish author, died at Paris, aged 68.
1829. The William and Anne, a British trading vessel, wrecked at the mouth of Columbia river, on the north-west coast of America, and the whole crew, 16 Europeans and 10 Sandwich islanders, murdered by the natives.
1833. Samuel Tucker, an American revolutionary commodore, died at Bremen, Maine. He was distinguished as a brave and able commander, and at the time of his death, was supposed to have been, next to Lafayette, the highest surviving officer of the revolution.
1855. James Brown, an eminent book-publisher of Boston, Mass., died, aged 55. He not only was eminent in his profession, but possessed the taste and spirit of a scholar.
1855.