1525. Vasquez de Gama, the Portuguese navigator, died at Cochin in Malabar. He discovered the course to the East Indies, by the cape of Good Hope.
1535. Euricius Cordus died; a German physician and poet, the friend of Erasmus.
1560. At Lillebone, Lower Seine, France, a fiery meteor fell, attended with red rain.
1565. A Dutch church was opened at Norwich by order of queen Elizabeth.
1650. Edinburgh castle taken by Cromwell, said to be the first time ever reduced.
1664. A comet styled a blazing star appeared in England.
1704. First eruption on record of the peak of Teneriffe.
1728. Second newspaper established in Philadelphia, called the Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette, by Samuel Keimer. The first press had been established by Bradford about six weeks after the city was founded.
1736. Plot discovered to destroy the whole family of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel.
1740. Daniel Waterland, an eminent English divine and polemical writer, died.