Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

10G5—St. Peter’s church, Westminster, dedicated by Edward the Goufessor. 1170 —Thomas a’Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated in the cathedral. 127 S—lnjunction issued by Primate of England against public prayer by little girls on Christmas day. ~137.1=-Wiekliff divulged his -opinion on the Pope’s mandate. 1530 —Society of Jesuits founded by Ignatius Loyola. 1552—Catherine Von Bora, wife of Mardin Luther, died. 1591—Pope Innocent X. died. ,1591 —Expulsion of the Jesuits from. . Paris. IGO1 —Kinsnle. Ireland, surrendered to the English. ; " IGS2 —First newspaper sanctioned in Russia. IGGl—Earl of Argyle Imprisoned for high treason. IG94—Mary, Queen of England, died of smallpox. 1709 —Empress Elizabeth of Russia ...—j—-born -Bled on- this date in I7pl. 1714—George Whitefield born. 1737 —Singular rising and sinking of land noticed at Scarborough, England. 1765=-James Francis Edward, the Pretender, son of James 11. of England, died. 1773 —Meeting at Philadelphia declared that the Polly,,.,with a cargo of tea, should not land. 180 G—-Russians entered Bucharest. 1809 —William E. Gladstone born. 1812 — American warship Constitution captured British ship Java. 1813 — Fire in Buffalo, N. Y„ destroyed 100 houses. 1814— Schooner Carolina blown jap In Mississippi by the British. 1818 —Emperor Alexander of Russia granted right to peasants to engage in manufacturing. 1828—Procession of free ifegroes In Philadelphia escorting an African prince returning-to Liberia Rowland Stephenson, British t banker and member of Parliament, embezzled $1,000,000. 1831—Hereditary peerage abolished in France. 1834 — First reformed British Parliament dissolved. ~ 1835 Battle of Tampa BayL^ 1837—Imperial palace at St. Petersburg burned. 1845—Texas admitted to the Union. 184 G—Constitutional charter of New Zealand granted. 1854 —Thomas W. Dorr, leader of Dorr’s Rebellion, died. 1857 —Bombardment and capture of Canton, China, by English and French forces. 1859—Lord Maeauley died, aged 59. 1870—Marshal Trim executed at Mad rid. 1873 — Great mass meeting held in Milwaukee for relief of Nebraska grasshopper sufferers. 1874 — -Alphonso XII., father of the present ruler, proclaimed King of Spain. 187 G—Great railroad accident at Ashtabuia, Ohio. 18S4—Severe earthquake felt in Austria and Spain. 1894 —Ex-Senator James G. Fair died ... in the burning of the Delavau house, Albany, N. Y. 1899—Extradition treaty between United States and Brazil ratified E. V. Smalley, celebrated journalist, died.