1796. James Fordyce died; a popular and eloquent Scottish preacher, who left behind him several excellent moral and religious works.
1799. John William Bruguieres, an eminent French botanist and mineralogist, died.
1800. Treaty of St. Ildefonso, by which Spain ceded Louisiana to France.
1802. Ratification of a treaty between Bonaparte and the bey of Tripoli, effected by Col. Sebastiana, who the same day concluded a treaty between the Swedes and the bey, by which the Swedes
engaged to pay 150,000 piasters for the captives, and an annuity of 8,000 more.
1807. The first steam boat sailed from New York to Albany. It was 130 feet in length, called the Clermont, and made 5 miles an hour.
1831. Blackhoof, a chief of the Shawnee tribe of Indians, died at Wapaghkonnetto, aged 114. He was at the defeats of Braddock, St. Clair, Harmer and Crawford, and probably the last survivor of the former disaster.
1838. The law abolishing imprisonment for debt in England went into operation.
1841. The Chinese island of Chusan recaptured by the British forces under sir H. Gough, with the loss of only 2 killed and 24 wounded.
1842. The war in Afghanistan closed by the capture of Ghuznee and Cabul, and the withdrawal of the British troops.