1780. I. H. Waser, a Swiss ecclesiastic, executed at Zurich, for some strictures in a newspaper on the administration of justice in that city.
1785. Samuel Mather, a learned New England divine, died, aged 79. He wrote the life of his father, Cotton Mather.
1788. Virginia adopted the constitution of the United States, recommending amendments; tenth state which ratified that document.
1789. Union of all the orders in the national assembly of France.
1794. Simon Nicholas Henry Linguet, a French writer, guillotined. The freedom of his writings drove him from one country
to another to escape prosecution, till he finally came under the revolutionary axe at Paris. The number of his works is thirty-five.
1794. The populace of Warsaw put eight of their principal noblemen to death as traitors to their country.
1800. William Cumberland Cruikshank, an eminent Scottish anatomist, died in London, where he distinguished himself as a surgeon and medical writer.
1801. Cairo surrendered by the French to the Anglo-Turkish army; conditioned to be sent to France. The army consisted of 13,754 men, of whom 600 were Greeks and Copts, and 100 Mamelukes.
1806. The British took possession of Montevideo only to be made prisoners of war.