Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISIORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISIORIAN

602—Mauritius Tiberius, Rmperor of Rome, died. 1213 —Possessions of Knights Templar in England appropriated by the crown. 1415 —Henry V. entered London after victory at Agincourt. 1490 —Perkin Warbeck, pretender to English crow-n, executed. 1542 —English defeated Scotch at battle of Solway Moss. 1547 —Henry 11. of France forbid printing any book relating to Holy Scriptures. 1, 1572—John Knox died. 15S0 —Sentence of death announced to Mary Queen of Scots. 1615 —Marriage of Louis XIII. of France with Anne of Austria. IGI8 —Charter grapted for the colony of Virginia. 1630 —Great earthquake iu Peru. 163S —The site of New Haven, Conn., bought from the Indians for 12 cents and some trinkets. 1052—Province of Maine taken under protection of Massachusetts and made a county called Yorkshire. 1700—Philip V. proclaimed King of Spain. 1739—rorto Bello taken by Admiral Vernon. 1747 Robert Livingston born. 1748 — Isaac Watts died. 1759—Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburg, I’a., evacuated by the French. 1774 —Robert Clive, ex-Governor of India, committed suicide. 1783 —British troops evacuated New York City. 1789 —Paper money first issued in France. 1792 —The Scheldt opened to all nations. 1795 —King Stanislaus of Poland de- ’ posed by Catherine of Russia. 1804 —Franklin Pierce born. .. .Thirty thousand perished in inundation of the River Nile. » 1809 —Fanny Kemble, celebrated actress, born. 1814 —Treaty signed at Ghent ending War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. .. .Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, died. 1816 —Philadelphia theater lighted with gas, first in this country. 1826 —Treaty signed between Great Britain and Brazil for suppression of the slave trade. 1829 —Camden, S. C., nearly destroyed by fire.... New England began custom of celebrating Thanksgiving day. 1837 —Siege of Herat begun by Persians. 1841 —Faraday’s discovery of the electric current presented to the Royal Society. 1852 —Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the poet Byron, died. 1855 —Robert Bunyan, last male descendant of the author of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” died. .. .Revolution at( Montevideo. 1857—Garrison of Lucknow rescued by Sir Colin Campbell. 1861 —Mason and Slidell imprisoned at Fort Warren, Boston. 1863 —Battle of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. 1870 —Bavaria enters the North German Confederation. 1874 —G. S. Bangs first proposed 24hour trains between New York and Chicago. 1882 —Thurlow Weed died. 1884 —Grand Opera House at St. Louis burned. 1891 —E. Bulwer Lytton, British minister to France, died. 1894 —Five villages in Sicily destroyed by earthquake... .Public executions abolished in Spain. 1898—Steamer Portland sunk off New England coast, 115 lives 105 t.... Hawaiian commission held first meeting in Washington. 1809 —Thomas H. Ismay, founder of the White Star line, died... .“Brave Bill” Anthony, hero of the Mains explosion, died in poverty. ...Samuel H. Elbert, ex-Governor of Colorado, died. 1901 —United States landed marines at Panama to preserve order. 1002 —Frederick Alfred Krupp, great German gun manufacturer, died 1903 —Germany officially recognized the Republic of Panama.. Settlement announced of the great Chicago railroad strike.