1727. Lewis de Sacy died; an eloquent avocat of the parliament of Paris, and a learned member of the French academy.
1728. A dispatch was received in England that more than two thirds of the city of Copenhagen in Denmark was burned down. The fire commenced on the 20th and continued three days.
1751. Philip Doddridge, an eminent English dissenting minister, died; author of the Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, a standard work.
1773. Conspiracy of Palermo.
1774. The first congress of North America, having finished their deliberations, adjourned.
1788. Thomas Reed died at Bordentown, N. J.; a captain in the navy of the revolution.
1794. Suwarrow, having defeated the Polish van guard, invested Praga, the suburb of Warsaw.
1795. The French national assembly dissolved itself, after three years' duration.
1796. Moreau crossed the Rhine.
1798. A violent insurrection was raised against the French at Cairo in Egypt.