Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1312 —Piers Gaveston, favorite of Edward IL, executed. 1381 —Wat Tyler entered London and seized the Tower. 1429 —Talbot defeated by Joan of Arc at battle of Palay, France. 1487 —Bqttle of Stoke; last great battle . on English soil. 1633 —Coronation of Charles I. in Scotland. 1645—-Final defeat of Charles the First, at Nase-by, by Cromwell. 1662 —Sir Henry" Vane, once Governor of Massachusetts, beheaded in Tower of London. - -—- —, 1771—Lafayette arrived in America. 1775 Title of “Twelve Confederate Colonies” adopted. 1776 Canada evacuated by Americans. 1777 National flag, thirteen stars and r stripes, adopted by American Congress. 1794 —Battle of Ghent. 1797—Mission of San—Jose, Cal., founded. 1802- —United States treaty with Creek Indians. 1812—The United States declared war against Great Britain. 1815—Battle of Waterloo. 1819 —Assent of Massachusetts to the separation of Maine. 1830- Eruption of Mt. Aetna. 1836 —Arkansas admitted to the Union. 1838—Ship Pulaski lost on North Carolina coast; IUO lives lost. 1846 —Treaty of Washington for settlemeat of the Oregon boundary J.BSQ— -Third great fire in San Francisco. 1854 —Merrimac launched at Charlestown navy yard. 1856—Republican national convention at Philadelphia nominated Fremont and Dayton. 1858—Steamboat Pennsylvania burned on the Mississippi; 100 lives lost.1862 — Slavery prohibited in the territories by act of Congress. 1863 West Virginia admitted as a State into the Union. 1864 — Alabama sunk by the Kearsarge off “Cherbourg.. . .Grant repulsed at battle of Petersburg, Va Confederates captured Winchester, Va.... Hunter repulsed by Confederates at Lynchburg, Va. 1866 Prussia declared war against - Austria. z.z:. ~ zz 1867 — Fugitive slave law repealed in the House.... Execution of Emperor Maximilian at Queretaro. 1871 — Triumphal entry of victorious Germans into Berlin. 1872 — Expulsion of Jesuits by German Reichstag. 1874—Compromise currency bill defeated in Die United States Senate. 1877 —Nez Perccs Indian war broke out in Idaho. 1886 —-City- of Vancouver, B. C., nearly destroyed by fire.,..King Ludwig of Bavaria committed suicide. ISB7—Earthquake shock at Summerville, S. C. 1891 —John Most, anarchist, sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in New York. 1894 Attempted assassination of Pre- —... mier Crisp! of 1ta1y.... Prendergast, assassin of Mayor Carter Harrison, hanged in Chicago. 1895 British government announced a protectorate for Uganda, Central Africa. 1897 — Hawaiian annexation treaty signed.... Bomb exploded near carriage of President Faure of France. 1898— President McKinley signed war revenue bi 11... .Behring sea award paid. 1904 — Gen. Bokrikoff, governor general of Finland, assassinated,.. .General Slocum disaster in East river, New York ; 1,000 lives lost. 1905 Premier Delyannis of Greece assassinated.