1797. The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.
1797. Bonaparte invaded Venice pretending that the Venetians had illtreated the French. This issued in republicanizing Venice and Genoa.
1799. Benjamin Flower, printer of the Cambridge Intelligencer, was fined £100 and ordered by the house of lords to be imprisoned 6 months, for some freedom with the speech of bishop Llandaff.
1802. Peter Elmsly, a partner of the celebrated Paul Valliant, and himself an importer of books and no mean critic and linguist, died.
1810. Lord Byron, in emulation of Leander, swam the Dardanelles, from Abydos to Sestos. The distance, including the length he was carried by the current, was upwards of four miles; though the actual breadth is barely one.
1813. Havre de Grace, Maryland, burnt by the British.
1814. Bonaparte arrived at the island of Elba, and Louis XVIII made his entrance into Paris.
1814. Thomas Coke, a methodist bishop in the United States, died. He became one of the assistants of Mr. Wesley, and was active in the service of the church. He wrote a Commentary on the Bible, History of the West Indies, &c.
1816. James McHenry, confident of Gen. Washington, and for some time secretary of war, died at Baltimore.
1818. Capt. Ross sailed from Shetland, on his first voyage for the discovery of the north-west passage.