1593. Lopez, a Jew, the queen's physician, convicted and with others executed, for conspiring to destroy Elizabeth.
1629. Charters granted to patroons in the colony of New Netherland, now New York.
1660. An order of council that the
Stationers' company do seize and deliver to the secretary of state, all copies of Buchanan's History of Scotland, and De Jure Regni apud Scotus, "which are very pernicious to monarchy, and injurious to his majesty's blessed progenitors."
1663. Second war at Esopus, now Kingston, in Ulster county, New York.
1673. Action between the Dutch admiral de Ruyter, and the French and English fleets, commanded by d'Estrees.
1692. Great earthquake in Jamaica; nine-tenths of Port Royal buried under water, and terrible devastations were made over the whole island. About 1000 acres were sunk northward of the city, and 2000 persons perished; and 3000 white inhabitants perished of pestilential diseases ascribed to the putrid effluvia issuing from the apertures.
1711. Henry Dodwell, a learned English writer, died, aged 70. His writings, which are very numerous, and which prove him to have been a man of indefatigable diligence and extensive learning, are on controversial, theological and classical subjects.
1731. William Aikman, an eminent Scottish painter, died. He was the intimate friend of the most distinguished characters of the day in England, whose portraits he painted, and thus unwittingly added much to their celebrity.
1751. John Machin, a noted English astronomer, died. He is the author of a method of determining the quadrature of the circle.