He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing abhorrence of the Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.

In 1685, Defoe joined the ill-fated Monmouth Rebellion but gained a pardon by which he escaped the Bloody Assizes of Judge George Jeffreys.

* George Jeffreys ( 1889 – 1962 ) Founder of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance and the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship ( UK )

* April 18 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, British Lord Chief Justice ( b. 1648 )

* R. Macrides, " George Akropolites ' Rhetoric ," in E. Jeffreys ( ed.

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But his worst encounter was with the Chief Justice, Sir George Jeffreys, in May 1685.

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There were five judges – Sir William Montague ( Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer ), Sir Robert Wright, Sir Francis Wythens, ( Justice of the King's Bench ), Sir Creswell Levinz ( Justice of the Common Pleas ) and Sir Henry Polexfen, led by Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

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* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.