Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1264—English barons victorious at Lewes. 1464—Yorkists victorious at Hexham (War of the Roses). 1509—Louis XII. defeated the Venetians at the battle of Rivolta. 1525 —Anabaptists defeated at Frankenhausen.

1610 —Assassination of Henry IV. of France and accession of Louis XIII. 1642—Montreal founded by Maisonneueve.

1783 —St. John, N. B., founded by U. E, Loyalists. 1791 —Lord Cornwallis routed the army of Tippoo Saib. 1795— Alliance of Paris. 1796— First vaccination by Dr. Jenner. 1804 —Lewis and Clarke started up the Missouri river on their trip of exploration. 1804 —Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of the French. 1809 —British took possession of the island of Anholt. 1811 —Battle of Albuera, between French and British. 1839—Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon I. and ex-Queen*of Naples, died.

1840 — John M. Niles of Connecticut became Postmaster General of the United States. 1841— Fall of rock from Cape Diamond, Quebec, killing 25 people. 1848—Insurrection in Vienna. Emperor fled to Innsbruck. 1853—First railway train left Toronto. 1856 —Queen Victoria distributed medals to the wounded heroes of the Crimea. 1860 —Republican convention at Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln and 2—Pere Marquette and party started from from Michilimackinac to trace the course of the Mississippi. 1885— Louis Biel, leader of the rebellion in Northwest Canada, surrendered. 1886— Britain took possession of at/ Surmah, annexing it to India. 1892—Great damage caused by flood at Sioux City, Iowa. 1895—Count Kalnoky, premier of Aus-tria-Hungary, resigned. 1897—Turkey agreed to an armistice with Greece. 1898 — Battleship Alabama launched at Chester, Pa. 1899—Edward Everett Hale resigned pastorate of South Congregational church, Boston, after forty-three years of service. 1900 — Gen. Buller occupied Dundee, South Africa. 1902 —Coronation of King Alfonso XIII. at Madrid.

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