1529. The Turks under Solyman abandoned the famous siege of Vienna.
1555. Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, English bishops, burnt at Oxford.
1586. Philip Sidney, an English statesman, soldier and scholar, died of a wound received at the battle of Zutphen.
1660. Hugh Peters, a famous English prelate, executed for conspiring, with Cromwell, the king's death.
1678. Cæsar Egasse du Boulai died; register and historiographer of the university of Paris, of which he wrote a history in 6 vols. folio.
1679. Roger Boyle died; an eminent Irish general, statesman and writer.
1725. Ralph Thoresby died; an eminent English topographer and antiquary.
1725. First newspaper published in New York.
1726. The public granaries plundered by the turners of Cornwall for want of provisions.
1756. Battle of Pirna; the Saxons defeated by Frederick II, of Prussia, with the loss of 17,000 prisoners.