1755. Lawrence Ricci, an illustrious Florentine, died. He embraced the order of the Jesuits, of which he was general at the time of its suppression; was imprisoned by the pope, and died in confinement.
1758. Pittsburgh evacuated by the French.
1759. Fort Du Quesne, now Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, taken by general Forbes.
1759. One of the most violent eruptions of mount Vesuvius ever known, which took place without any of the usual preceding symptoms.
1776. Theophilus Borden, an eminent French physician, died. He gained great reputation at Paris, where he published nine medical works.
1789. Assignats, the name given to paper money, first issued in France.
1790. Robert Henry, a Scottish clergyman, died; author of a history of Great Britain "on a new plan."
1814. Treaty of peace signed at Ghent, between the United States and Great Britain.
1819. Champlain canal declared to be navigable.
1828. Clarke Abel, a medical officer and naturalist, who accompanied the embassy of lord Amherst to China in 1816, died.