1793. John Paul Rabaut de St. Etienne, a French protestant minister, guillotined for his bold and eloquent defence of the king.
1793. Battle of Martigne; the French under Danican defeated by the Vendeans.
1795. John Bewick died; an English engraver on wood, of great excellence; who with his brother carried the art to a state of perfection before unknown.
1806. The French under Murat crossed the Vistula and occupied Praga.
1808. William Hawes, an English physician and philanthropist, died. He was the founder of the Royal humane society, for the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning, strangulation or suffocation; an institution which has renewed the lives of thousands that would otherwise have perished.
1813. Charles John Maria Denina, an Italian historian, died at Paris; the author of many excellent works.
1815. A foot-ball match at Carterhaugh, Ettrick forest, between the Ettrick men and the men of Yarrow. One party was backed by the earl of Home, the other by sir Walter Scott, sheriff of the forest, who wrote two songs for the occasion.
1819. Frederick Leopold Stolberg, a German writer, died. His works consist of travels, history, poems, dramas and translations.
1835. Thomas Pringle, the first editor of Blackwood's Magazine, and for many years secretary to the London anti-slavery society, died at London.
1837. James Marshman, an eminent and learned baptist missionary, died at Serampore, aged 70. He was the son of a poor English weaver, who having received his education, went to India in 1799. He published a Chinese grammar, and a translation of the entire scriptures.