1791. Louis XVI and the royal family made their escape from Paris with the intention of proceeding to Germany, to avoid the disturbances which threatened the country.
1792. The assembly of the sans culottes appeared in Paris with their arms and colors.
1793. The negroes and mulattoes of cape Francois began an indiscriminate massacre of the whites. A company of 2000 men were sent on shore from the French fleet to arrest their depredations, but were compelled to embark again. (See [23].)
1794. Felix Vicq d'Azir, an eminent French physician and anatomist, died at Paris.
1798. Jeremy Belknap, a Boston divine, and historian of New Hampshire, died, aged 58. He also published two volumes of American Biography, a work which his death abridged.
1813. British made an attack on Oswego, but were repulsed by the militia under Col. Carr.
1815. That questionable monster, the sea-serpent, observed at Plymouth, Mass. Its extension above the surface of the water was supposed to be more than a hundred feet. The serpentine animal noticed in the Norway seas is of much larger proportions, with large blue eyes, "which looked like a couple of bright pewter plates."
1818. Joseph Adams, an eminent London physician and medical writer, died.
1819. The first steam vessel which crossed the Atlantic arrived at Liverpool.
1830. Battle between the French and Algerines, near Sidi Khalef; the latter were defeated.