1667. Milton's widow disposed of her entire interest in the Paradise Lost for eight pounds; so that the sublimest poetical building in the world produced for its architect and his family, the sum of eighty dollars; ten pounds having been paid to the author in his life time!
1667. Sentence was executed upon many of those Scottish covenanters who had rebelled, it is supposed under persecution.
1670. The maiming of sir John Coventry for reflecting on the moral character of Charles II, which caused the Coventry act.
1705. Catharine, of Portugal, died; queen of Charles II, of England, by whom she was treated unkindly.
1706. Tumultuous meetings in Edinburgh, occurred on account of signing the articles of union with England.
1719. First No. of the Boston Gazette issued by William Brooker.
1741. Bernard de Montfaucon, a very learned French Benedictine, died; famous for his knowledge of ecclesiastic and pagan antiquities.
1774. Thomas Broughton, a learned English divine, died; author of the Bibliotheca Historica Sacra, and one of the original writers for the Biographia Britannica.
1775. An act of parliament confiscating all American vessels found floating on the water, and for impressing the crews of American vessels into the British navy, without distinction of persons.
1777. There were at this time 300 American officers and 900 privates confined as prisoners of war in New York by the British. They were mostly confined in sugar houses and the most loathsome jails. In Philadelphia there were 500 privates and 50 officers. They were generally stripped of what clothing they had when taken, and were sometimes confined several days with scarcely any food in order to induce them to enlist to save their lives. Frequent instances occurred of persons thus perishing from hunger.