ingenious novelist and dramatic writer, and mother of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
1771. The Prussians under Gen. Platten, destroyed the Russian magazines on the frontiers of Poland.
1775. Americans under Gen. Montgomery laid siege to St. John's Canada.
1782. Permacoli, in Hindostan, surrendered by the British to Hyder Ally and the French.
1785. Anthony Leonard Thomas, a French poet and prose writer, died.
1787. The constitution of the United States adopted by the federal convention at Philadelphia, and referred to the conventions of the separate states for concurrence.
1795. The French national assembly directed that a copy of the Dictionary of the academy, with the notes and additions in the margin, deposited in the library of the committee of public instruction, should be delivered to the booksellers, and that after a new one should be completed that it be returned; 15,000 copies to be printed.
1796. Battle of Altenkirchen, in which the celebrated French general Merceau was killed.
1802. Richard Owen Cambridge died; an elegant English poet, critic and miscellaneous writer.
1811. A beautiful annular eclipse of the sun was observed at Richmond in Virginia and other places adjacent.