1755. The counters of the bank of England were broken down by the crowd in their eagerness to obtain lottery tickets.
1756. James Cassini, a French astronomer, died. He succeeded his father as astronomer royal, and made many important discoveries.
1758. The strong fortress of Schweidnitz, in Prussia, taken by assault, by the Prussians, and count Theirhaimb with 5,000 Austrians surrendered.
1761. James Cawthorne, an English poet, died. His poems were collected and published quarto, in 1771.
1761. William Oldys, a famous English antiquary, died. He was well versed in English antiquities, a correct writer and a good historian.
1764. Jane Antoinette Poisson, marchioness de Pompadour, died. She was the favorite of the licentious Louis XV. The patronage she extended to literature and the arts in some degree atoned for the follies she committed.
1764. Archibald Laidlie, having accepted a call from the reformed protestant Dutch church in New York, preached the first English sermon before that congregation.
1768. The populace at Peterborough, England, demolished a house that had been opened for the inoculation for small pox. The pretence was to prevent the spreading of a new disease.
1776. James Granger, a learned and ingenious English divine, died. He is the author of a valuable Biographical History of England, 4 vols, quarto.
1777. A party of 100 Indians attacked the settlement of Boonesborough, in Kentucky, and killed 4 of colonel Boone's men.