1719. FRANCES D'AUBIGNE, madame de Maintenon, a celebrated French lady, died. From a state of want and dependence she rose to be the wife of the king of France, though not publicly married. Her exemplary life and extensive charity after that event, made amends for many errors committed in reaching the height of her ambition. 1720. LUKE MELBOURNE, an English divine, died. He was a prose and poetical writer of considerable ability, and his name is frequently introduced by Dryden and Pope in their works. 1754. The first theatre opened in Philadelphia, at the west corner of Cedar and Vernon streets, with the _Fair Penitent_ and _Miss in her Teens_. 1755. The counters of the bank of England were broken down by the crowd in their eagerness to obtain lottery tickets. 1756. JAMES CASSINI, a French astronomer, died. He succeeded his father as astronomer royal, and made many important discoveries. 1758. The strong fortress of Schweidnitz, in Prussia, taken by assault, by the Prussians, and count Theirhaimb with 5,000 Austrians surrendered. 1761. JAMES CAWTHORNE, an English poet, died. His poems were collected and published quarto, in 1771. 1761. WILLIAM OLDYS, a famous English antiquary, died. He was well versed in English antiquities, a correct writer and a good historian. 1764. JANE ANTOINETTE POISSON, marchioness de Pompadour, died. She was the favorite of the licentious Louis XV. The patronage she extended to literature and the arts in some degree atoned for the follies she committed. 1764. ARCHIBALD LAIDLIE, having accepted a call from the reformed protestant Dutch church in New York, preached the first English sermon before that congregation. 1768. The populace at Peterborough, England, demolished a house that had been opened for the inoculation for small pox. The pretence was to prevent the spreading of a new disease. 1776. JAMES GRANGER, a learned and ingenious English divine, died. He is the author of a valuable _Biographical History of England_, 4 vols, quarto. 1777. A party of 100 Indians attacked the settlement of Boonesborough, in Kentucky, and killed 4 of colonel Boone's men. 1777. Congress resolved that no distinction be made between the troops, and that the titles of Congress's Own Regiment, Washington's Life Guards, &c., be abolished. 1777. British picket near Bonumtown, N. J., stormed by a detachment under captain Patterson. 1786. ANDREW WILSON executed at Edinburgh. This execution occasioned the subsequent Porteous mob. 1788. MARY DELANY, an ingenious Irish lady, died, aged 88. She corresponded with some of the learned men of the day; but is chiefly known by an ingenious _Flora_ which she commenced at the age of 74, and labored at with taste and assiduity nearly ten years, when her sight began to fail her. It was constructed of paper, cut and painted to resemble nature, with great accuracy of form and color.