1798. Lieut. Lord Camelford shot Lieut. Charles Peterson, at English harbor, Antigua, for disobedience of orders, was afterwards tried and acquitted.
1798. The Swiss cantons armed against France.
1809. The French under Marshal Victor defeated the Spanish under Castanos at Cuenca.
1811. The British merchant ship Cumberland, Captain Barrat, beat off 4 French privateers, and took 170 men who had boarded her.
1814. British and Prussians repulsed in an attack on Antwerp; part of the suburbs were burnt.
1814. The emperor of Russia and king of Prussia crossed the Rhine to invade France; the emperor of Austria, who had arrived the evening before at Cassel, went out to meet them, and they entered Basil, in Switzerland.
1814. General thanksgiving throughout Great Britain for the successes gained over Bonaparte.
1814. Capt. Barrie of the British ship Dragon, took the fort on Point Peter and the tower of St. Mary's, in Georgia; they afterwards destroyed the fort.
1817. The ship Georgianna, of Norfolk, experienced a tremendous shock in the Gulf stream supposed to be by earthquake; the day was calm.
1822. Johann Gottlieb Schneider, a German philologist and naturalist, died, aged 72; a voluminous author.