1714. George I, and his cabinet, issued an order forbidding the clergy to meddle in their sermons with the affairs of state.
1718. Charles XII, of Sweden, killed; supposed to have been struck by a cannon ball in the trenches, at Frederickshall; a fortress which he was then besieging near the bay of Denmark.
1747. Edmund Curl died; one of the characters mentioned in Pope's Dunciad. His character for morality was not without blemish, and he was highly injurious to the literary world, in his profession of book maker and seller, by his piracies and forgeries. He lost his ears in the pillory, by sentence of the law, for issuing obscene publications.
1753. The dey of Algiers assassinated by a soldier, as he was distributing pay to about 300 in the court yard of his palace. The assassin seated himself in the chair of state, and was taking measures to secure his power, when he was shot with a carbine.
1756. Theodore Newhoff, king of Corsica, died in England, where he had been long confined in prison for debt.
1758. The old castle of the Douglasses, so famed in Scottish history, was accidentally burned to the ground.
1794. Assault on the works of Nijmegen, a strong city of Holland; general Bushe, of the allies, was killed by an 8lb. cannon ball.
1794. Battle of Roussilon; the Spaniards and Portuguese defeated the French, killed 800, took 600 prisoners, and 50 cannon.
1806. Saxony erected into a kingdom, under Frederick Augustus, by the treaty of Posen, between Bonaparte and the elector.
1807. The Dutch fleet burnt at Greisse, in Java, by the British squadron, under sir Edward Pellew.