1711. The British fleet returning from its unsuccessful expedition against Canada, arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., when in addition to their other misfortunes, the Edgar 70 gun ship blew up, having on board 400 men besides many persons who came to visit their friends.
1718. Richard Cumberland, a learned English divine and mathematician, died.
1733. Seven hundred British troops withdrawn from Gibraltar to defend the planters of Jamaica from their runaway slaves.
1745. Ath surrendered to the French after a severe and destructive bombardment. This gave France the command of Flanders.
1747. David Brinard, an eminent American missionary among the Indians, died at Northampton, a victim to his extreme mortification and inextinguishable zeal for the success of his mission. He rode about 4,000 miles in 1744, on pastoral duties.
1747. Jonas Surrington died near Bergen in Norway, aged 159, retaining the perfect use of his faculties to the last.
1759. The architect Smeaton finished the Eddystone light house; not an accident occurred to sadden the joy.
1760. Berlin in Prussia, taken and sacked by the Russians and Austrians.
1772. Christian Jacobson Drackenburg died at Aarhus, Denmark, aged 146; "a celebrated and well-known character."
1779. The people of Manchester rioted on account of Arkwright's machinery for spinning.