1760. Tripoli nearly destroyed by an earthquake, shocks of which had continued nearly a month. Balbec was entirely ruined.
1766. Zachary Grey, an English scholar and divine, died. He was the author of thirty publications, the best known of which is an edition of Hudibras, with curious and interesting notes.
1770. Philip Morant died; a learned and indefatigable English antiquary and biographer.
1774. Henry Baker, an ingenious English naturalist, died, aged 70.
1775. Eusebius Amort died; a distinguished Bavarian ecclesiastical and theological writer.
1780. Naphtali Daggett, fifth president of Yale college, died. He had previously been professor of divinity; was a good classical scholar and a learned divine.
1783. New York evacuated by the British. The Americans under general Knox took possession of it, and received general Washington and governor Clinton, who made a public entry into it.
1785. Richard Glover, an English poet, died. He was a merchant by profession, who made a proficiency in the belles lettres; and acquired an enviable reputation as a citizen.
1785. Charles de Maur, an eminent Spanish mathematician and engineer, died. He was employed in the army, and in the construction of canals and roads.
1789. A Jamaica paper of this date states, that 2,300 negroes had been imported into that island from Africa within the four weeks then preceding.