1756. Elizabeth Elstob, an English literary lady, died. She was skilled in eight languages, and published a Saxon grammar.
1764. Simon Sack, died at Trionia, aged 141.
1770. Fire works in honor of the marriage of Louis XVI, of France, when about 1100 persons were crushed to death in the crowd.
1775. Americans burnt the mansion house on Noddles island, and carried off the cattle.
1778. Marie Francis Arouet de Voltaire, the celebrated French philosopher, died. He was an extraordinary man, of whom it has been said, he was a free thinker in London, a Cartesian in Versailles, a Christian in Nancy, and an infidel in Berlin. In society, he was alternately an Aristippus and a Diogenes. For versatility of talent, his equal has, perhaps never appeared.
1796. Battle of Borghetto; Bonaparte defeated the Austrians.
1799. The editor, printer and publisher of the London Courier, were fined and imprisoned for saying that the emperor of Russia was a tyrant among his own subjects and ridiculous to the rest of Europe.
1801. John Miller, who wrote a historical view of the English government, died at Glasgow.
1804. Jefferson issued a proclamation erecting the district of Mobile.
1806. Bonaparte issued a decree calling an assembly of Jewish deputies, for the purpose of forming a Sanhedrim.