1771. Charles John Francis Henault, an eminent French chronologist, died. His great work, the result of forty years' study, has gone through many editions and been translated into the Chinese and several European languages.
1775. John Campbell, king's agent for the province of Georgia, died. He was an eminent writer on biography, history and politics.
1793. The French convention decreed
that the houses in Toulon should be leveled with the ground.
1794. South Hadley canal, or Connecticut river, opened. It was constructed to overcome a fall of 53 feet in the river; is upwards of 2 miles in length, including a cut of 300 feet in length through solid rock, 40 feet deep and 18 wide. The descent into the river was made by an inclined plane 230 feet in length, traversed by a carriage with six wheels, which was regulated by a water wheel. It was altogether quite an original affair.
1798. Robert Merry, author of the Pains of Memory, died at Baltimore.
1800. An attempt to assassinate Bonaparte at Paris by an infernal machine.
1804. Martin Vahl, a Norwegian naturalist, died. He extended his researches over various parts of Europe and the African coast.
1805. American exploring party under Capts. Lewis and Clark, went into winter quarters in huts on the shore of the Pacific, near the mouth of Columbia river.
1806. Battle of Nasielsk; the Russians under Kaminski defeated by the French under Davoust.