1653. William Gouge died; a minister of the famous assembly of divines, and appointed one of the annotators of the Bible.
1653. Oliver Cromwell appointed lord protector of England.
1656. Edmund Wingate died; an English writer on arithmetic and mathematics.
1657. Joshua Reynolds, commander of the English forces in Mardyke, was cast away with the whole ship's company, on Goodwin's sands.
1684. The statue of Charles II in the Royal Exchange at London, was erected by the Hamburg company.
1687. William Petty, an eminent English physician, died; chiefly celebrated for his knowledge in mathematics and mechanics, and for his writings on political arithmetic.
1703. Julius Mascaron, a most eminent preacher, died. His eloquence was astonishing, and it is related that his preaching had such an effect upon the Huguenots, that of 30,000 Calvinists which he found on coming to the see of Agen, 28,000 forsook their church.
1710. Gerona, the key of Catalonia in Spain, surrendered to the French.
1723. John Trenchard died; an eminent English patriot and political writer.
1745. Peter Francis Guyot des Fontaines died; a French critic, historical writer and translator.