JUNE 2.
193. Didius Julianus, emperor of Rome, executed after a reign of 60 days, which he purchased of the soldiers.
1581. James Douglas, earl Morton, was guillotined at Edinburgh for the supposed murder of lord Darnley.
1609. Seven ships, attended by two small vessels, with 500 people, sailed for Virginia, under sir Thomas Gates, sir Geo. Somers, and Christopher Newport. (See [May 23].)
1627. Charles I granted to James Hay, earl of Carlisle, by letters patent, all the Caribbean islands.
1653. Action between the English fleet under Monk, and the Dutch under Tromp. The action continued 2 days, and resulted
in the defeat of the Dutch, who lost 20 ships taken or destroyed.
1656. Corner stone of the Dutch church, laid in the centre of State street, in the city of Albany, N. Y., by Rutger Jacobsen, one of the magistrates.
1671. Edward Leigh, a learned Englishman, and member of the long parliament, died.
1676. Indian battle near Mount Hope. About 300 of the English, mounted on horses, with a number of friendly Indians, in pursuit of Philip and his regiment of Wampanoags, came upon their camp, which had been newly pitched in a swamp. The friendly Indians upon a given signal ran down upon them from one side, while the mounted soldiers attacked them from the opposite side, so that many of those who fled were taken prisoners. The fruits of this expedition were 3,000 of the enemy killed and taken, and among the prisoners a Narraganset squaw called the old queen. None of the English, and but few of the allies were hurt in this assault. Philip escaped this pursuit, although it was an irreparable blow to his plan of a general extermination of the English settlements, and nearly completed his ruin.
1754. Earthquake at Cairo, in Egypt, which nearly destroyed the city, and buried 40,000 of its inhabitants in the ruins.
1779. Verplank's point, with a garrison of 70, and 4 cannon, surrendered to the British gen. H. Clinton.
1780. Great riots in London. Lord Gordon, at the head of 50,000 protestants, went to parliament to present a petition against popery.
1781. French under Bouille took Tobago.
1782. Battle of Arnee, in India, and defeat of Hyder Ally, by the British under sir Eyre Coote.
1783. Washington furloughed the soldiers of the war.
1789. Baron Knyphausen, a Hessian general in the British service during the war of the American revolution, died at Berlin, in Prussia, aged 59.
1791. The city of Anapa, in Asia, stormed and taken from the Turks by the Russians. In the assault many were put to the sword, and a pasha and 14,000 made prisoners.
1793. Brissot and several other members of the convention arrested in Paris.
1795. M. Dambourney died at Rouen; distinguished as a merchant and a man of science.
1802. British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner £10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.
1803. Thomas Pett, an English miser, died. He went to London at the age of 10, with a solitary shilling in his pocket. He lodged 30 years in one gloomy apartment, which was never lighted up with coal, candle, or the countenance of a visitant. It is said he never eat a morsel at his own expense, and left about $35,000 to relatives whom he had never seen.
1805. British surrendered Diamond rock, Martinique, to the French.
1811. Christoph, and Maria Louisa, his sable consort, crowned at Cape Francois, sovereigns of Hayti.
1812. John William de Winter, a noted Dutch admiral, died at Paris.
1814. Peace between Great Britain and France proclaimed in London.
1843. John Cary, a negro, died at Washington, aged 114. He accompanied Washington as his personal servant in the old French war, and preserved a dress coat presented to him by the general, which he had worn at the siege of Yorktown.
1854. The military force of Boston was called out to protect the government marshal in delivering Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave, on board a Virginia vessel. No serious outbreak occurred, though crowds thronged the streets, and hooted and hissed and groaned, and threw missiles at the military, and at the marshal and his assistants.
1855. There was a riot at Portland, Me.; a crowd attempted to seize with violence certain liquors, claimed to be owned by the city; and, persisting, the military were called out and fired, killing one man and wounding others.