1787. Gen. Arthur St. Clair elected president of the American congress.
1788. James Stuart died; sometimes called Athenian Stuart, a very celebrated traveler and delineator of Athenian architecture.
1794. The French convention decreed it treason for any officer to surrender his ship to a force less than double his own!
1797. Mantua surrendered to the French, who now became entire masters of the pope's dominions; whereupon Napoleon dictates to his holiness those pious terms of pacification signed ten days after.
1798. The Federal street theatre, in Boston, entirely destroyed by fire.
1799. Thomas Paine, often called the Literary Merchant, died. Few mercantile men become literary men.
1799. Elizabeth Woodcock, an English woman, returning home from market in one of the most stormy nights ever known in England, was overwhelmed in a snow drift, where she remained eight days without sustenance. When discovered her mental faculties were unimpaired, but she had lost the use of her feet, and died some months after.
1801. The first imperial parliament of Great Britain assembled in London.
1804. George Walton died, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was a native of Virginia, served an apprenticeship to a carpenter, removed to Georgia and studied law. He was foremost among the patriots of that state who assembled to devise measures of resistance to the acts of parliament in relation to American taxations.
1806. Miranda sailed from New York on his expedition to revolutionize South-America.