1555. ROWLAND TAYLOR burnt at Hadleigh, in England, for resisting the establishment of papal worship in his church. Great efforts were made to induce him to recant, which he firmly rejected, and proceeded on his way to the stake with great courage and apparent unconcern. During the burning he stood without crying or moving, till one of the executioners struck him on the head with a halberd, when his corpse fell down into the fire. 1577. PHILIBERT DE LORME, an eminent French architect and antiquary, died. He left several works on architecture greatly esteemed. 1636. PHILEMON HOLLAND died at Coventry, England. He was a laborious translator of the Greek and Latin authors. 1660. The gates and portcullis, of London destroyed by Monk, who soon discovered his error. 1670. FREDERICK III, of Denmark, died. He succeeded his father, Christian IV, and improved the condition of his people by making them more independent of the nobles; the crown he also made hereditary. 1671. A speech on the enormous subsidies granted to Charles II, by Lord Lucas; though delivered in the king's presence, it was published, and burned by the common hangman. 1674. The city of New York surrendered to the British by the Dutch governor, Anthony Colve. 1674. Treaty of peace between England and the States General. 1675. The French fleet, under the duke of Vivonne, of 9 men-of-war and several fire ships, defeated the Spanish blockading fleet at Messina, and entered that port in triumph. 1680. J. CLAUDE DABLON, a Jesuit missionary in Canada, died. He contributed the two last volumes of the _Relacions_, which were sent to Europe; valuable for the geographical information they contain. 1734. PETER POLINIERE died at Coulonces in France. He was a mathematician, philosopher and chemist, and the first who read lectures on those sciences at Paris. 1751. HENRY FRANCIS D'AGUESSEAU, a French statesman, died. At the early age of 21 he was appointed to the office of advocate-general, ten years after solicitor general, and finally, in 1717, succeeded to the chancellorship. He retired from this office 1750, at the age of 82, when an annuity of about $25,000 was settled upon him. Voltaire pronounced him the most learned magistrate that France ever produced. His published speeches and pleadings form 13 quarto volumes. 1752. FREDERICK HASSELQUIST, a Swedish botanist and natural historian, died at Smyrna. 1765. The peruke makers, distressed that people wore their own hair, and that foreigners were employed, petitioned the king for redress. But the populace, not seeing the consistency of being compelled to take off their hair while the peruke makers wore their own, rose upon them, and cut it off. 1767. HUBERT DROUAIS died; a painter of Normandy, who by pencil raised himself from obscurity to fame and opulence.