1759 British general James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure
1806 Buenos Aires captured by British.
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn.
1847 New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires.
1857 Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the seige of Cawnpore.