1594. Battle of Glenlivet, in which the forces of James V under the duke of Argyle were defeated by the Scotch.
1689. Quirinus Kuhlman, a German fanatic, burnt at Moscow for some seditious prophecies.
1690. Robert Barclay, an eminent Scottish writer, of the society of quakers, died. His Apology for the Quakers is esteemed the standard of their doctrines, and has been published in many of the European languages.
1691. The English and Irish war ended by the fall of Limerick.
1733. Charles St. Yves, a skillful French oculist, died; author of a valuable treatise on the diseases of the eye.
1751. James Logan died; a learned quaker, who accompanied Penn to America in 1699, and assisted in the government of the colony. His library contained 3,000 volumes, and was the largest in the colony; he understood several ancient and modern languages, and his writings were republished in Europe.
1768. Ferdinand Warner, an English divine, died; celebrated for his theological, biographical, historical and medical writings.
1793. The last two male natives of Pitcairn's island murdered by the three survivors of the British ship Bounty.
1794. The fortress of Juliers opened its gates to the victorious French, on the famous victory over the Austrians on the banks of the Roer, which delivered all the German provinces on the west side of the Rhine into the hands of the republicans.
1803. Victor Alfieri, an eminent Italian dramatic poet, died. Within less than seven years he produced fourteen dramas, besides various other works in prose and verse, including a translation of Sallust. His posthumous works were published in 13 vols., two of which are occupied by his auto-biography.