1776. The British troops having evacuated Boston, Sir Archibald Campbell, unaware of this movement, on entering the harbor with 1700 men, was made prisoner by Washington. 1780. Congress resolved to call in by taxes in one year and burn all the continental money emitted prior to that time, and to issue ten million dollars new money, redeemable in specie within six years. 1781. ANNE ROBERT JAMES TURGOT, an eminent French statesman, died. He studied divinity, but his talents recommending him to the notice of the government, he was appointed to a civil office, where he displayed so great ability that he was appointed comptroller of the finances. His measures were grand, liberal and useful: but being ridiculed by the profligate and the vicious, who rioted on the miseries of the people, he retired from public life. 1796. Steuben county erected in south western New York. 1797. Palma Nuova, a frontier town in Italy, evacuated by the archduke Charles, who had wrested it from the Venitians only ten days before. The French under Bernadotte and Serrurier, on entering it found 30,000 rations of bread, and a million quintals of flour. 1805. BONAPARTE assumed the title of king of Italy. 1814. JOHN VINT, editor of the _Isle of Man Gazette_, and a distinguished philanthropist, died. 1817. An earthquake in Spain, Portugal, and Sicily, destroyed whole villages. 1817. CHARLES COMBE died; an eminent English physician and critic, and highly distinguished as a medalist. 1836. ABATE FEA, a celebrated archæologist, died at Rome, aged 88. He is known as the translator of Winckelman. 1839. The Chinese imperial commissioner, Lin, issued a proclamation at Canton, ordering the foreign opium dealers to deliver up all the opium in their possession, to have it burnt and destroyed, and forbidding its importation to all eternity, under pain of death. 1840. Dr. PARISH, favorably known to the medical world, died in Philadelphia. 1846. First steam boat arrived at Austin, Texas. 1846. WILLIAM M. CRANE, of the United States navy, died by his own hand. 1848. The emperor of Austria published by proclamation, at Milan, abolition of censorship, and a convention of the states. But the people wanting more, troubles began. 1854. A terrible gale at Albany, N. Y.; fifty houses unroofed, many chimneys and walls blown down, and great damage done. 1856. HENRY POTTINGEN, lieutenant general in the East India company's service, died aged 67. He distinguished himself in the Afghanistan war, and settled the opium difficulty with the Chinese. 1856. The Cunard steamer Curlew, from Halifax, ran on a reef north of the Bermudas, and was lost, with a part of her mail. MARCH 19. 720. B. C. The first eclipse of the moon on record (by Ptolemy) happened on this day. 478. B. C. The history of Herodotus terminates with the siege of Sestos.