400. Naval battle of the Hellespont, and defeat of Gainas the barbarian; who was despatched in Thrace.
558. Childebert I, king of France, died. His great military exploit was the defeat of the king of Burgundy.
679. Dagobert II, king of Austrasia, assassinated.
1588. Henry de Lorraine, duke of Guise, assassinated by order of the king. He was a turbulent and seditious subject of Henry III, of France.
1620. The Plymouth settlers having fixed upon a place for a town, on a high ground facing the bay, where the land was cleared and the water excellent, as many as could conveniently went on shore, and felled and carried timber to the spot designated for the erection of a building for common use.
1622. Redemptus Barenzano, a Piedmontese monk, died. He was professor of philosophy at Anneci, and a correspondent of the great Bacon.
1631. Michael Drayton, an English poet, died. His works which were numerous, and of great merit, were collected in 1748 in one volume folio.
1632. John Cotton, the first minister of Boston, died. He was a good scholar and a pious, able and benevolent man.
1688. James II, king of England, escaped from England to Calais, in France, and was declared to have abdicated his throne.
1715. The Freeholder, first No., appeared, in a great degree political. In this work the labors of Addison as an essayist were brought to a close.