1572. The first presbyterian meeting house in England erected at Wandsworth in Surrey.
1591. Christopher Hatton, chancellor of England under Elizabeth, died. He was a man of learning and great integrity, and though placed in so high a situation, had not been bred to the law. It was by his advice that the unfortunate Mary submitted to her fatal trial.
1660. The bishops of England again took their seats in the house of lords, verifying the adage of the king's grandfather, "no bishop no king."
1672. The island of Tobago taken from the Dutch by the English.
1683. A book entitled Julian the Apostate, burnt by the hangman, and its author, Samuel Johnson, a clergyman, fined 500 marks for an alleged libel on the duke of York.
1729. Nicholas Gervais, a French missionary, massacred in Guiana with all his attendants.
1737. Queen Caroline of England died, aged 55. Her favorite study was theology, and she has been accused of scepticism; at her death she refused the sacrament, but joined cordially in the Lord's prayer.
1759. Naval battle off Belleisle; the French fleet under M. de Conflans defeated by the British under admiral Hawke. The French lost several large ships, and abandoned the project of invading Great Britain.
1769. Charles Hugh le Fevre de St. Mark, a French miscellaneous writer, died at Paris.
1773. Charles Jennens died; an