1777. The whole force of the Americans under Washington was 12,480 men, of whom 8,963 were regulars then called continentals.
1778. Americans under major Talbot captured the British schooner Pigott, and brought her into Stonington.
1783. John le Rond d'Alembert, a distinguished French philosopher, died.
1792. Three of the mutineers of the ship Bounty were executed at Portsmouth.
1793. The Austrians under Clairfait defeated the French in their intrenched camp before Mentz; the camp was carried, 106 cannon, 200 ammunition wagons, and 2,000 men were taken prisoners.
1795. The citizens of London obstructed the king on his way to the parliament house, clamoring for bread, peace, no Pitt. A bullet pierced the glass of the king's coach.
1804. George Morland died; an exquisite English painter, principally of rustic scenes.
1810. Battle of Aculco, Mexico; the Spanish patriots under the first Aldamo, defeated by the king's troops under Gen. Callejas, with the loss of 6,000.
1812. Mallet, with 12 of his confederates in a plot to subvert the Bonaparte dynasty, were tried and shot in the plains of Grenille.
1814. Holland, in consideration of its relinquishment of all its claims to the cape of Good Hope, and to the colonies of Demarara, Essequebo and Berbice, all the other colonies which she possessed previous to 1794, in Asia, Africa and America, were restored by Great Britain.