1661. Thomas Fuller, an English historian and divine, died. It is said of his memory, among other incredible things, that he could repeat a sermon verbatim on once hearing it.
1702. Unsuccessful attack of the British under admiral Rooke and the duke of Ormond, on Cadiz.
1702. Battle of Lauzara, in Italy, between the allies under prince Eugene, and the French under the duke de Vendome.
1725. Gerard Noodt, an eminent Dutch civilian, died.
1728. The queen of Sardinia died; she was the daughter of Charles I of England.
1729. Benjamin Neukirch, a German poet, died. He deserves a place in history rather as having taken the first step to reform German literature, than as a good writer.
1733. A Roman pavement of mosaic work discovered in Little St. Helen's, Bishop gate street, London; supposed to have lain over 1700 years.
1741. Behring discovered East cape, the easternmost point of Asia.
1746. Nicholas Hubert de Mongault, an ingenious and learned French critic, died.
1751. Thomas Shaw, an English divine and antiquary, died; a writer on Barbary and the Levant.