Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1174 —Henry 11. paid penance at tha tomb of the murdered Archbishop a Becket. 1191—Acre taken by Richard I. and other Crusaders after two Tears’ siege. 1302—Flemings defeated the Count of ' r Artois at Courtray. 1450 —Jack Cade, who raised an insurrection in Kent, killed. 1400—Henry VI. taken at Northampton (War of the Roses). 1&3Z —Almagro • defeated Alvarado at 1 Abancay. 1584 —William, Prince of Orange, assassinated. .. .Sir Walter Raleigh landed on the island of Wocokon and named the country Virginia. 1609 —Samuel Champlain discovered tho lake which bears his name. 1619 —First legislative body of Englishmen in America met at Jamestown, Virginia. 1675—Lord Culpeper appointed Governor of Virginia for life. 1685—Duke of Monmouth beheaded. 1"09 —Swedish army under Charles XI. defeated the Russians under Peter the Great at battle of Pultowa. 1758 —French victorious at battle of Ticonderoga. 1776—British soldiers under Sir William Howe landed on. Staten Island.... Pennsylvania adopted a State constitution. 1778—Articles of confederation signed by the delegates from eight States, v 1789 Count de Rochambeau and 6,000 French soldiers arrived at Newport to aid Americans. 1781 — Congress ratified the Articles of Confederation. i 1782 Savannah evacuated by, the British; ’ 1787 —Slavery abolished in the territory north of the Ohio river. 1790 — Congress decided tomeet at Philadelphia for ten years, and thereafter on the Potomac. 1808—Murat made King of Naples. 1812 —Gov. Hull of Michigan made unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Malden. 1814 —A British fleet captured Eastport, Maine. JBl5 —Napoleon I. surrendered to tho captain of tHe Bellerophon at Rochefort. - 1826 —Luther Martin, counsel for Aaron Burr in the latter's trial for treason, died. 1832 —First steamboat arrived at Chicago .... Henry M. Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi river. 1835 — Liberty bell cracked while being tolled in memory of Chief Justice Marshall. 1843 Fremont’s expedition sighted Pike’s Peak, Colorado. 1846—-Commodore Sloat hoisted the American flag at Monterey. 1849 —Restoration of the temporal power of the Pope proclaimed. ..... : 1856 — United States Senate rejected bill to admit Kansas as a free State.... British forces evacuated the Crimea. 1857 — Massacre at Cawnpore by Nana Sahib. 1863 —Cincinnati proclaimed under martial law... .Indiana invaded by Gen. Morgan’s Confederate cavalry. 18G4 —First organized national banffi opened in Philadelphia... .Rioting of anti-draft mobs in New York City. 1865 —Bamum’s museum, at Ann street and Broadway, New York, destroyed by fire. 1878—British flag hoisted at Cyprus. 1882— Bombardment of Alexandria. 1883— "Gen. Tom Thumb” (0. H. Stratton), famous dwarf, died. 1884 — National Democratic convention at Chicago nominated Grover Cleveland for President. 1890 — The President signed the Wyoming admission bi 11.... The new Croton aqueduct opened in New York ... .Idaho admitted to the Union.... Many lives lost by tornado In Minnesota. 1891 — Attempted assassination of President Carnot of France. 1892 — Stewart Free Silver Coinage bill defeated In the House of Representatives. .. .Ravachol, anarchist and dynamiter, guillotined in Paris.... St. John's, Newfoundland, nearly destroyed by fire....An avalancbo from Mount Blanc destroyed villages and 200 lives. 1894 —Constantinople shaken by earthquake; over 1,000 persons killed.... American Railway Union strike dodared off. ■;—•• 1805 —Remains of the Pitezel children, supposed to have been murdered by H. H. Holmes, discovered at Toronto. 1898 —The Anglo-American League was organised In London. 1900 —Gen. Porfirlo Dias re-elected President of Mexico. 1902 —Gen. Kitchener received an ovation on his return to England from South Africa.