1788 A dreadful storm took place in France, which desolated the country and destroyed the harvest for a space of fifty leagues.
1789 The first breaking out of the French Revolution; the mob of Paris forcibly entered the Hospital des Invalides, and possessed themselves of the arms deposited there.
1793 Marat, the coadjutor of Robespierre and Danton, and one of the worst monsters the Revolution produced, was assassinated by Charlotte Cordé.
SUNDAY, 14th.
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
1223 Died at Mantes, in the forty-third year of his reign, and the fifty-ninth of his age, Philip II. of France, called by his historians Philip-Augustus. He was the great rival of Richard Cœur de Lion of England.
1824 Riho Riho, or Tamehameha II., King of the Sandwich Islands, died in London; his wife, who came to this country with him, had died about a week before.
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