1745. Battle Jagernsdorf; Prussians defeated the imperialists.
1773. John Entick, an English clergyman and schoolmaster, died; author of the Spelling Dictionary, and other works.
1775. Meeting of provincial congress at New York.
1780. Sir John Johnson, with a party of British and tories, burnt a mill and 33 houses at Johnson Hall, killed about a
dozen persons, destroyed all the sheep and cattle, and having dug up his silver plate decamped.
1781. John Baptist Beccaria, a learned Italian monk, died.
1782. Formosa, a large island in the Chinese sea, almost wholly inundated by volcanic agency, during a storm.
1794. Battle of Esperes; French defeated by the British, who took 500 prisoners and 700 cannon.
1795. Mungo Park, sailed from England on his first expedition to Africa, for the purpose of tracing the course of the Niger, and procuring information relative to the city of Timbuctoo, of which little more than the name was known.
1798. Bonaparte and the French fleet sailed from Toulon; at the same time lord Nelson's fleet was in a storm in the gulf of Lyons, not many leagues distant.