Jonathan Carver dies in London. Arriving at the future site of St. Paul in 1766, Carver met with Dakota leaders and witnessed ceremonies in Wakan Tipi (Dwelling Place of the Sacred), a cave and sacred site that settler-colonists named after him. His descendants later alleged that the Dakota had ceded him a sizeable tract of land, but the US Senate rejected that bogus claim in 1823. Carver had written a book about his adventures in which he made no mention of the land grant.