1771. Cuthbert Shaw died; an English poet of "humble origin, but of superior
attainments, and inferior to no writer of ancient or modern times."
1774. General Gage seized the powder at Charlestown, in consequence of which the people rose and compelled several officers of the king's government to resign.
1776. Lewis Henry Christopher Holty, an Excellent German poet, died. "In tender elegiac or idylic poetry, he is peculiary successful."
1779. French fleet, count d'Estaing, captured off Charleston, S. C., British ship Experiment, 50 guns, and three frigates.
1784. John Francis Seguier, a distinguished French botanist, and president of the academy of Nismes, died.
1787. John Bake, an eminent Dutch philosopher and Latin writer, was born at Leyden. His last work was an edition of Cicero de Legibus.
1793. A fine marble bust of John Milton, the poet, was placed in the church at Cripplegate.
1801. Robert Bage, an English novelist of considerable merit, died.
1804. The planet Juno discovered by Harding, of Germany. Her diameter is 1,425 miles, and she performs a very eccentric orbit round the sun in 4 years and 128 days.