1736. William Cosby, captain general and commander in chief of the province of New York, died, almost universally detested.
1774. William Browne, an English physician, died. The active part he took in the contest against the licentiates, occasioned his being introduced by Foote into his play of the Devil upon Two Sticks. He is distinguished by many lively essays in English, and Latin prose and verse.
1776. Elias Catherine Freron, a French litterateur, died. He was the constant subject of Voltaire's satire, who called him the tyrant, rather than the king of literature.
1776. The British soldiery, contrary to orders, plundered Boston.
1783, Anthony Loydi, a farmer of Amezquet, Spain, died, aged 114. He had never been sick until a few days before his death, always abstained from wine and tobacco, and retained his senses, his teeth and hair until he died.
1785. N. Sablier, an eminent French author, died at Paris.
1789. The city of London brilliantly illuminated on account of the convalescence of the king.
1792. John, earl of Bute, died. He was made prime minister of England, from which he voluntarily retired to enjoy a life of learned leisure.
1797. The city of Albany made the capital of the state of New York.
1797. Delaware county, in the state of New York, erected.