1675. Giles Personne Roberval, a French mathematician, died; author of a work on mechanics, &c.
1722. Third immigration of Palatines to the United States.
1775. The British under lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, cannonaded Hampton, but were repulsed.
1795. The French directory, which succeeded the national assembly, entered upon the duties of their appointment as the executive government.
1802. Henry Hunter, an eminent Scottish divine and author, died.
1805. Walter Blake Kirwan died; an Irish divine, eminent for his popularity as a preacher, which was so great that it was often necessary to keep off the crowds from the churches in which he preached by guards and palisades. He died exhausted by his labors.
1810. Bonaparte ordered all British goods found in France to be burned. Not the surest way to discourage manufactures.
1822. William Lowndes, a distinguished statesman of South Carolina, died. He was respected and beloved even by his political enemies, and stood in the first rank of American statesmen.
1830. Hard fighting at Antwerp, between the Dutch and Belgians; the former were driven into the citadel, where they commenced cannonading the town, and did great execution.
1840. John Thomson, a Scottish clergyman, died; distinguished as a landscape painter.