3 B. C. Caius Cilnius Maecenas the friend and counselor of Augustus, died. To him Virgil dedicated his Georgics, and Horace his Odes.
1280. The statute in English law called quo warranto, passed.
1297. Wallace granted a protection to the monks of Hexham, for their lives and possessions. "Abide with me, for there alone can you be secure; for my people are evil doers, and I can not punish them."
1492. A marvelous thunder stone fell about mid-day at Ensisheim, in Alsace, which weighed as is learnedly attested, 255 pounds.
1594. Martin Frobisher, the English navigator, wounded at Croyson near Brest, of which he died.
1609. The Half Moon, under Henry Hudson, on her return from the discovery of New York and Albany, arrived at Dartmouth, in England, whence he forwarded tidings of his arrival and an account of his discoveries, to the directors of the East India company at Amsterdam.
1665. The first Gazette in England was published at Oxford, where the court had retired, during the great plague. It was removed to London in the February following, and took the title of London Gazette. (Quære.)
1696. Third frame of government of Pennsylvania passed by Gov. Matthews.
1704. Andrew Acoluth (Acoluthus), a German linguist of extraordinary acquirements, died.
1724. John Kyrle, the celebrated Man of Ross, died, aged 90. He is immortalized by Pope, and more by his own beneficent actions.