1724. The president and vice-president of Thorn, in Poland, sentenced to be beheaded for neglect of duty, it being alleged that they had suffered religionists to riot. The sentences against the protestants were so severe and harsh, that all the protestant powers of Europe interposed for a reversal, but without success.
1752. The Adventurer, by Dr. Hawkesworth, appeared.
1775. Lord Dunmore declared Virginia to be in a state of rebellion; he proclaimed martial law, and invited the slaves to join him.
1783. The last person publicly burned by the Spanish inquisition. This was a woman, who perished at Seville. The victims of that diabolical institution were afterwards doomed to die in dungeons, where the shrieks of agonizing nature could only be heard by those whose interest it was to conceal them.
1794. Nymegen, which had been pronounced by British engineers strong enough to check the irruption of the sans cullotes into Holland, was evacuated by the British and Dutch, who succeeded in crossing the Waal.
1805. Lewis and Clark's party arrived at the mouth of the Columbia river, in sight of the ocean.
1806. The Prussian general Blucher, surrendered to the French, with 16,000 men and 80 cannon. This was the last body of the Prussians left after the battle of Jena, and closed all opposition to the views of Bonaparte in Prussia.
1811. Battle of Tippecanoe; the Indians under the Shawnee prophet, brother of Tecumseh, were defeated by the United States troops under Gen. Harrison. The Indians lost 300 killed; American loss, 188 killed and wounded.
1812. Battle of Dorogobouche; the Russians attacked the retreating French army, which, after a desperate and sanguinary contest, retreated to the river Dnieper. The field presented to the victors a continued line of dead and dying, the snow being absolutely blackened with the bodies
of man and beast, destroyed by ball or sword, cold or famine.