1546 _Ann Askew_, a young lady of great merit and beauty, (connected with most of the ladies of the court, and with the Queen, Catharine Parr,) was burned at Smithfield, for denying the doctrine of the real presence. 1800 Died, at his seat near Southampton, _Bryan Edwards_, the Author of the _History of the West Indies_. WEDNESDAY, 17th. 1674 The remains of the two Princes, _Edward V. and his Brother_, were discovered in the Tower, and, by order of Charles II., removed to Westminster Abbey. 1761 _Peter III._, husband of Catherine II., was murdered. The unfortunate Emperor was strangled with a towel, and the next day his body was exposed to the populace, and his death attributed to that disease we now call cholera. THURSDAY, 18th. 371 B. C. The Battle of Leuctra, in which the Lacedemonians were defeated, and their general, Cleombrotus, slain. 1100 Death of _Godfrey de Bouillon_, the most celebrated leader among the princes and nobles who went on the first crusade: when Jerusalem was taken, he was unanimously chosen king. 1374 _Petrarch_, one of the earliest, as well as the most elegant, among the Italian poets, whose romantic attachment to the beautiful Laura has rendered his name familiar, even to those who are wholly ignorant of Italian literature, was found dead in his library on the seventieth anniversary of his birth. 1796 _Louis XVIII._ compelled to leave the army of the emigrants, and place himself in the hands of the Austrians. 1812 A Treaty of Peace between England and Sweden was signed at Ærebo. FRIDAY, 19th. 365 B. C. Rome was taken and pillaged by the Gauls, who put to the sword the senators and old men, who alone remained in the city. 64 _Nero_, for his amusement, caused Rome to be set on fire in various places. This conflagration was attributed by him to the Christians, and all who could not escape or conceal themselves, were put to death with the most cruel torments, among others, St. Peter and St. Paul suffered martyrdom. 1333 The Battle of Halidown Hill, in which the Scots were defeated by Edward III.