1787. Board of regents of the university of the state of New York established.
1788. Great riot in New York, occasioned by the imprudent manner in which the physicians procured subjects from the burying grounds; several lives lost.
1794. Peter Gaspard Chaumette, a French revolutionist, executed. He was the son of a cobbler, displayed great courage at the taking of the Bastile, and became one of the most sanguinary and reckless characters of the time, till his career was arrested by the guillotine.
1795. Riots in England on account of the high prices of food.
1796. Battle in the defiles of Millesimo, Italy, in which the French under Augereau and Joubert defeated the imperialists, who retreated to the mountains of Cossaria.
1799. Schaffhausen, on the Rhine in Switzerland, taken by the imperialists.
1801. The canal at Alexandria, Egypt, cut by the British, and the country inundated.
1804. Makey, a Malay settlement on the coast of Sumatra, destroyed by the British.
1807. Robert Heron, an erudite and popular writer, died. By unwearied industry he raised himself from an obscure to a prominent situation in society.
1813. Battle of Castilla, in Spain; the British under Sir John Murray, defeated the French under Suchet.