1767. Roger Wolcott, governor of Connecticut, died. He never attended school a single day of his life, yet gradually rose by his own efforts to the highest military and civil honors.
1772. The theatre at Amsterdam, in Holland, took fire and burned to death 31 persons.
1774. At a town meeting of the inhabitants of Providence, R. I., the subject of a general congress was acted upon, being the first act of the kind by a public assemblage.
1776. Captain Mugford in a vessel of 4 guns captured British ship Hope, 4 guns, with 1,500 barrels powder and military stores, and brought her into the port of Boston.
1794. Battle of Surcoign; British defeated by the French after a sanguinary conflict.
1797. Revolution in Venice, and a democratic government formed under the direction of the French general Angereau.
1797. Louis XVIII compelled to quit the Venetian territory.
1797. Michel Jean Sedaine, a French dramatic writer, died, aged 78. Bred to the occupation of a stone mason, by application to study he won a place in the French academy.
1801. A French convoy of 560 men with 1 cannon and 550 camels, in Egypt, captured by the British.
1801. William Heberden died; an English physician and medical writer.