Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — Friday [ARTICLE]

Friday

It wm on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, that Columbus sailed from the harbor of Palos for the New World. It was on Friday, the 12lh of October, 1492, that he first saw the land, alter sixty-five days of navigation. It was on Friday, the 4th day of January, 1493, that he started on his return to Spun to anuounee to their Catholic majesties the glorious result of his expedition, and on Friday, the 15th of March, 1493, he disembarked in Andalusia. It was on Friday, the 13th of June, 1494, that he discovered the American continent On Friday, March sth, 1497, Henry VII, of England, gave to John Cabot his dispatch for the voyage which resulted in the discovery of the continent of North America. Ou Friday, September 3th, 1565, Mendez founded St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States. On Friday, November 10th, 1720, the Mayflower first disembarked a few emigrants on American soil, at Provincetown, and on Friday, December 23d, 1620, her passengers finally landed at Plymouth Rock. It was on Friday, February 22d, 1731, that George Washington, was born; It was on Friday, June 16th, 1772, that the battle of Banker Hill was fought, and on Friday, October 7th, 1777, that the surrender of Saratoga tooV place, which event denied France to give her aid to the Americans.. The treason of Arnold was disoovered on Friday, and on Friday, June 17th, 1776, Richard jlenry Lee read the declaration of independence to the continental congress— Prairie Farmer.