JUNE 4.
1137. The greater part of the city of York, its cathedral, and 39 churches burned.
1453. Alvarez de Luna, a Spanish statesman, executed. He acquired such an ascendancy over the king that he was himself the monarch more than 30 years.
1520. A famous interview between the kings of England and France, near Guisnes.
1561. St. Paul's, London, burnt, having stood nearly four centuries. Its dimensions were 960 feet in length, 130 in breadth, and surmounted by a spire 520 feet high.
1585. Mark Anthony Muretus died; a French critic and poet.
1663. William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury, died. He was the friend of Laud, by whose influence he was promoted, and by whose fall he was a great sufferer. He was exemplary in his conduct and irreproachable in the discharge of his
duties; and on the restoration was raised to the see of Canterbury.
1665. John Lawson, an English admiral, killed.
1691. Baltimore in Ireland taken by the English under general Ginkle.
1711. The fleet of transports containing 5,000 troops from England and Flanders, designed for the reduction of Canada, arrived at the port of Boston, under sir Hoveden Walker, after a passage of one month's duration.
1725. A general assembly of the kirk of Scotland met at Edinburgh.
1731. A person sentenced at the old Bailey court of London to be hanged for forgery; said to have been the first capital punishment for that offence.
1737. Francis le Moine, an excellent French painter, ran himself through with a sword in a fit of lunacy.
1738. Birthday of George III of England. He began his reign at the age of 22, and occupied the throne 60 years.
1744. Anson arrived in England after a voyage of three years round the world.
1745. Battle of Hohenfriedberg, between the army of Frederick II of Prussia, and that of prince Charles of Lorrain, in which the latter was defeated with the loss of 4,000 killed and 7,000 prisoners.
1745. Alexis Normand, advocate of the parliament of Paris, died; justly celebrated for his love of justice.
1746. Battle of San Lazaro; the French defeated in an assault upon the Austrian camp, with the loss of 15,000 killed, wounded, and prisoners, 60 colors and 10 cannon.
1792. First legislature of Kentucky met.
1792. Route between Pennsylvania and the Genesee country in New York explored.
1792. John Burgoyne, a British officer and dramatist, died. He was "tint at Saratoga."
1794. Port-au-prince, St. Domingo, taken by the British. They found 131 cannon, &c., 13 ships and 9 brigs laden, and other vessels.
1796. Battle of Altenkirchen; the French under Kleber defeated the Austrians and took much booty.
1798. Battle of Tubberneering; the united Irishmen defeated the English under colonel Walpole, who was shot through the head.
1799. Battle of Zurich between the French under Massena, and the Austrians under the archduke Charles.
1800. Cisalpine republic re-established by Bonaparte.
1800. The English squadron under Pellew attacked Quiberon in France, destroyed the forts and brought off several vessels.
1800. Francis Buller, an eminent English judge, died.
1801. Genoa united to France; Eugene Beauharnais appointed viceroy of Italy, by Bonaparte, who at the same time appointed the order of the iron crown.
1803. Francis Xavier Talbot died; a French ecclesiastic, and author of some poems.
1804. Vaccination for the cowpox introduced with great success in Persia.
1805. The American prisoners at Tripoli liberated.
1807. Edward Dilly, a benevolent and distinguished bookseller, died. His purse and advice were always at the service of the deserving.
1808. A new constitution formed for Spain by Bonaparte.
1813. The French under Joseph Bonaparte and Jourdan evacuated Valladolid, Spain.
1816. Treaty between the United States and Weas and Kickapoo Indians.
1817. Clotilda Tambroni, an Italian poetess, died.
1819. Washington lodge of independent order of Odd Fellows organized at Baltimore, Md., the first lodge of the order in the United States.
1823. Louis Nicholas Davoust, duke of Auerstadt and prince of Eckmuhl, died; one of Napoleon's bravest generals.
1829. Steam frigate Fulton blown up, and 26 persons killed.
1835. Owen Pughe died in Wales; author of a Welsh and English Dictionary, and styled the Johnson of Wales.
1837. Abiel Holmes, a learned American clergyman, died, aged 74; known principally by his American Annals, one of the most valuable historical publications that has been written in this country.
1843. Andrew Bell died at Perth Amboy, N. J., for many years surveyor for the proprietors of that state.
1844. Jesse Smith died at Salem, Mass., aged 88. He fought at Bunkers hill, and also at almost every other scene of conflict during the war of the American revolution.
1848. Matthew Gregory died at Albany, aged 91; a revolutionary soldier, who was at the capture of Cornwallis; the noted keeper of the Tontine in the early part of the century.
1854. A riot occurred at Brooklyn, N. Y., between the advocates of street preaching and the catholics, when many persons were killed and wounded, and quiet was only restored by the aid of the military.
1856. Alexander Crichton, an English physician, died near London, aged 93. He was for many years physician in ordinary to the emperor Alexander I, of