1754. Battle at fort Duquesne; the French and Indians defeated by the Americans under Washington.
1781. American frigate Alliance, 32 guns, Capt. Barry, captured British sloops of war Atalanta, 16 guns, and Trespasser, 14 guns.
1793. Anthony Frederick Busching, a distinguished Prussian geographer, died.
1794. Lord Howe's first action with the French fleet under Joyeuse. British ship Russell captured the Revolutionaire, 110 guns.
1795. William, prince of Orange, issued a manifesto against the French and Batavian republics, protesting against their right to abolish the stadtholdership.
1797. Toulon, which had been seized by the French royalists, surrendered to the conventional troops.
1798. James Dunbar, professor of philosophy at Aberdeen, died; author of an essay on the history of mankind in the rude and uncultivated ages.
1798. Father Murphy, at the head of the United Irishmen, took Enniscorthy, killed 90 of the king's troops, and set the town on fire.
1803. British ship Victory captured the French frigate Ambuscade, formerly belonging to the British.
1803. Richard Hole, an English poet and divine, died. He published Ossian in a poetic dress and other works.