Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1265 —First English Parliament to which Knights of Shires, citizens and t _.. burgesses were summoned. 1534—-Lima, Peru, founded by Pizarro. 1546 Martin Luther preached his farewell sermon at Wittenberg. 1547 — Earl of Surrey beheaded. 1583—Attempt of the Duke of Anjou to seize Antwerp. 1588-—Miles Coverdalc, translator of the Bible, died. T77T7 1609—Joseph Scaliger, .founder of chronology, died. 1645 —Archbishop Laud oeheadecl. 1657 —Attempted assassination of Crom- ' well. 1706 —Benjamin Franklin born. 1719 — France declared war against Spain. 1720 Famous South Sea Bubble inaugurated. 1746 —Batle of Falkirk. 1765 —Stamp act passed by the British Parliament. ■' 1776 “No Stamp” flag raised at Ports; mouth, N. LI. ' ", 1777 Battle of Ivingsbridge, N. Y. 1788— Connecticut ratified constitution of of the United States. 1789 Charles IV. declared king of Spain. 1790 Lafayette supported abolitipn of titles aud surrendered his own. 1791 — Vermont adopted constitution of the United States. Thirteenth and last State. 1793 —First balloon ascension in United States made at Philadelphia. 1796 —Remains of Columbus removed from St. Domingo to Havana. 1904—-Dr. Jenner first declared vaccination would prevent smallpox. 1805 — Tailors of -New York City met and organized first trades union in America. 1806 — Cape of Good Hope taken by the English. 1809— American Congress passed laws . -enforcing the embargo. 1810— Diocesan court annulled marriage of Bonaparte and the Empress Josephine. 1813 —Defeat of Gen. Winchester at the River Raisin. 1815 —Battle of New Orleans... .King of Spain igsued edict against Free Masonry. 1826 —Peru evacuated by the Spaniards. 1829 — Revolt against Spain by "Society of the Black Eagle” in Cuba. 1830 — President’s message reached New Orleans from Washington in four and one-lialf days, breaking previous speed records. 1836 —Treaty of peace and commerce signed by United States and Venezuela. 1838 —Coldest day in a century. 1840—Penny postage in Great Britain went into operation. 1848—Thirty killed in explosion of the ~ steamboat Blue Ridge on the Ohio river. 1850 —First ship placed in United States drydock at Brooklyn navy yard. 1854 —Ship Taiyleuere lost on Irish coast; 370 perished. 1854 — Two railroad bridges at Erie, Pa., destroyed by a mob of women. 1855 — Great parade of the unemployed in New York City. 1860 — Eighty persons killed in the collapse of the Pemberton mills, Lawrence, Mass. 1861 — Battle of Bull Run Georgia adopted ordinance of secession. 1863 —Gen. Fitz John Porter cashiered and dismissed from service of United States. 1867 —Indians troublesome and 8,000 U. S. troops ordered to the plains. 1870 — U. S. steamer Oneida lost. Yokohama; 120 perished. 1871 — King W’illiam of Prussia proclaimed Emperor of Germany.... Fenian ‘exiles arrive in New York. 1873 III. died. 1874 Siamese twins died in Surrey county. North Carolina. 1881 —Egyptian obelisk is set jn its permanent position in Central Park, New York. 1883 — Hamburg-Ameriean steamer sunk in North Hen; 353 lives lost. 1884 — New State cnpitol building of lowa dedicated at I)es Moines.... Ninety-seven live* lost in wreck of • . steamer Columbus off Martha’s Vineyard. 1886—Seventeen lives lost in burning of insane hospital at Kankakee, 111.... Avalanche In Piedmont; seventy lives lost. 1886 — Thirty-six men buried in mine explosion near Wheeling, W. Vn Damaging storm on the Pacific roast • ....Many lives lost in great blizzard which swept the West. 1887— Henry M. Stanley started from Londbn for relief of Km in Bey in Africa British ship Kapunda sunk dff the coast of Brasil; 300 perished. . . , 1889 —Jail attacked by mob, Graham, Texas; six men killed. 7. .Tariff bill I passed U. 8. Senate; vote, 32 to 30 ....Grand Opera House, Bt. Paul, burned *