JUNE 2.
193. Didius Julianus, emperor of Rome, executed after a reign of 60 days, which he purchased of the soldiers.
1581. James Douglas, earl Morton, was guillotined at Edinburgh for the supposed murder of lord Darnley.
1609. Seven ships, attended by two small vessels, with 500 people, sailed for Virginia, under sir Thomas Gates, sir Geo. Somers, and Christopher Newport. (See [May 23].)
1627. Charles I granted to James Hay, earl of Carlisle, by letters patent, all the Caribbean islands.
1653. Action between the English fleet under Monk, and the Dutch under Tromp. The action continued 2 days, and resulted
in the defeat of the Dutch, who lost 20 ships taken or destroyed.
1656. Corner stone of the Dutch church, laid in the centre of State street, in the city of Albany, N. Y., by Rutger Jacobsen, one of the magistrates.
1671. Edward Leigh, a learned Englishman, and member of the long parliament, died.
1676. Indian battle near Mount Hope. About 300 of the English, mounted on horses, with a number of friendly Indians, in pursuit of Philip and his regiment of Wampanoags, came upon their camp, which had been newly pitched in a swamp. The friendly Indians upon a given signal ran down upon them from one side, while the mounted soldiers attacked them from the opposite side, so that many of those who fled were taken prisoners. The fruits of this expedition were 3,000 of the enemy killed and taken, and among the prisoners a Narraganset squaw called the old queen. None of the English, and but few of the allies were hurt in this assault. Philip escaped this pursuit, although it was an irreparable blow to his plan of a general extermination of the English settlements, and nearly completed his ruin.