Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1242—Russians defeated the Swedes at battle of Lake Peipus. 1197 —Canada discovered by Cartier. 1513—Ponce de Leon called the country « discovered by him “Florida.” 155 S—Marriage of the Dauphin of France to Stuart, Queen of Scots. 1609 —Henry Hudson sailed from Holland on his exploring expedition to America. 1632 —Imperialists defeated ; Tilly killed. 1663—Royal Society of England chartered. / 1762 —Granada surrendered to the British. 1789 —Washington chosen President of the United States. . 1791 Count Mirabeau,‘‘the grandest figure of the French Revolution” died. 1792 — United States mint established. 1800 — First United States bankrupt law passed; repealed Dec. 19, 1803. 1801 — British fleet under Nelson bombarded 1805 —Emanuel Lisa founded the first trading post in Nebraska. 1810 — Napoleon married the Archduchess Maria Louisa. 1811 — James Monroe of Virginia became ... Secretary of State. ISI2 —Badajos stormed and taken by Lord Wellington. 1814—Napoleon Bonaparte sent to Elba ....Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated the throne of France. 1819—The American Farmer, first agricultural paper, issued at Baltimore. 1829 — rßolivian army invaded the republic of Peru. 1830 — The Mormon church founded. 1837—Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet laureate of England, born. 1844 —The Fleet Prison in London abolished. 1847 —Alvarado, Mexico, surrendered to the Americans. 1850 —The celebrated Koh-i-noor diamond sent as a present to Queen Victoria. 1858—Sir Hugh Rose defeated the Indian rebels and took Jhansi.... Gold discovered in British Columbia. 1862 —Federal army commenced siege of Yorktown, Va.... First day of the battle of Shiloh. 1865—University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, burnt by Gen. Croxton.... Petersburg and Richmond, Va., occupied by federal troops... .Battle at Selma, Ala. 1872 — Earthquake at Antioch ; 1,600 lives lost. 1873 — White Star steamer Atlantic wrecked off Nova Scotia; 481 lives lost. 1876—Impeachment trial begun of William W. Belknap. Secretary of War. 1878 —Victory, of British at Futtehabad, Afghanistan. ISB5 —Frog Lake massacre. 1887 —First Colonial conference met in London. 1889 —Passengers and crew of steamship Danmark rescued by steamer Missouri in mid-Atlantic. 1894 — Eleven strikers killed in riot at Connelisville, Pa.... Lotus Kossuth, Hungarian patriot, buried in Budapest. 1895 — Eightieth birthday of Prince Bismarck celebrated throughout Germany. 1896 — Ex-President Harrison married Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick. 1897 — Venezuelan Congress ratified boundary arbitration treaty with Great Britain. 1898 — Many lives lost by the breaking of the Ohio river levee at Shawneetown. 111. 1899 Mataafa’s forces in Samoa attacked American and British naval squads. 1900 — The Kentucky Court of Appeals declared Beckham Governor.. .Queen Victoria started on a visit to Ireland. 1901— Spanish cabinet approved of a treaty of friendship with the United States. 1002 —Million dollar fire in Atlantic City, N. J. 1904 — Religious emblems ordered removed from the French courts of justice... .Attempt on the life of the King of Spain at Barcelona. 1905 — President Roosevelt left Washington on a trip to Texas and Oolora<fo.