1776. The New Hampshire convention dissolved itself and assumed legislative powers, chose twelve counselors as an executive branch, and delegates to Congress, which were recognized.
1782. George Costard died. A classical, mathematical and oriental scholar, whose reputation as an author is chiefly derived from a History of Astronomy, highly appreciated in Europe.
1791. Vermont, the last of the thirteen original states which composed the Union, adopted the constitution and took her place in the confederacy.
1795. The French frigate Iphigenie, 32 guns, captured by the Spanish fleet off Catalonia.
1797. French sloop Atalante, 16 guns, captured off Scilly by the British frigate Phœbe, 36 guns, Capt. Barlow.
1800. The first soup establishment for the poor was opened at Spitalfields, London.
1806. The Dutch surrendered the cape of Good Hope to the British.
1808. Phillips Cosby, British admiral of the Red, died aged 78.
1809. Samana taken by the British, together with two privateers, and four vessels laden with coffee.
1812. London involved for several hours in impenetrable darkness. The sky, where any light pervaded it, showed the aspect of bronze. It was the effect of a cloud of smoke, which, from the peculiar state of the atmosphere, did not pass