1715. Defeat of the pretender's forces at Preston, and many persons taken, among whom was their leader Mr. Foster.
1726. Sophia Dorothy, only child of the duke of Zell, and wife of George I, of England, died. The malice of another subjected her to 32 years' captivity.
1770. George Grenville, a celebrated English statesman, died. He was distinguished for his eloquence in the senate.
1771. Eruption of Solway Moss, in England. It is about seven miles in circumference, and composed of mud and putrid fibres of heath, diluted by internal springs. It burst its barrier in the night, and laid a large tract of country in ruin.
1781. John Moody hanged at Philadelphia as a spy. He intended to have seized the books and papers of congress.
1798. Jean Francois Callet, a French mathematician, died. It was to prevent the occurrence of errors in his tables that Didlot attempted the art of stereotyping.
1805. Bonaparte entered Vienna; the commencement of a favorite plan of his to dictate peace to the conquered monarchs of Europe in their own capitals.
1810. James Allen, the Northumbrian piper, died.
1812. Bonaparte on his retreat from Moscow, quitted Smolensk for Krasnoy. His army was now reduced to 43,000.
1813. The junta, under the title of national assembly, declared the independence of Mexico.