1780. Major Andre, an adjutant-general in the British army, landed in the night from the British sloop of war Vulture, and proceeded to West Point to confer with Arnold.
1792. Royalty abolished, and France declared a republic, by acclamation, in the national assembly.
1795. The Peep of day boys, in Ireland, changed their name to Orange men, and opened their first lodge.
1802. Mons. Garnerin ascended at London in a balloon about 4,000 feet, and descended in a parachute safely at St. Pancras. His balloon fell the next day near Farnham, in Surrey.
1803. Robert Emmet hanged in Dublin for high treason in conspiring the death of George III, and providing arms, &c., for
the rebels. His speech in his defence is a masterly piece of eloquence.
1812. The Americans under captain Forsyth attacked and carried the village of Gananoque, in Canada.
1814. Action between the United States sloop of war Wasp, captain Blakely, and the British brig Atalanta, formerly the Siro of Baltimore. The Atalanta was captured, and made the 13th and last prize of the Wasp during that cruise; for nothing is known of her fate afterwards.
1814. The British under lieut. Drummond retreated from before fort Erie to Niagara.
1832. Walter Scott, the most popular writer of his age, and the most distinguished novelist in English literature, died at Abbotsford, in Scotland. His fictitious prose works comprise 75 volumes, and his complete works about 100 volumes.