Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1242 —French defeated Henry 111. St Taillebourg. 1546—Anne Askew burnt in London. 1588 —First of a series of engagements between the English fleet and Spanish armada. 1629 —Champlain, after the capture of Quebec, taken prisoner to England. ...'. Capitulation of Quebec to the British. 1685 —Duke of Monmouth beheaded. 1762—Peter 111. put to death. 1776 —Pennsylvania adopted a State constitution. 1795 —Treaty 'qf Basel between France and Spain. 1801 —Concordat concluded between Pius VII. and Napoleon. 1808—Murat made King of Naples!... Spanish defeated the French at Baylen. 1812 —Battle, of Salamanca. ■. Mackinaw —surrendered tO'tbe British. 1821 —Construction of the Lachine canal begun.... Coronation of King George IV. of England. " 1824 —-ItUrbide, who made himself emperor of Mexico, shot at Padillo. 1832—Napoleon 11., King of Rome, only child of Bonaparte, died of consumption, aged 21 years. 1887 —Queen Victoria’s first visit to Parliament The Carlists defeated at Valencia. 1844 —Bank of England charter act passed. 1848 — Constitutional* assembly met at Vienna. 1849 — Restoration of the temporal power of the Pope proclaimed. 1850— Daniel Webster of Massachusetts became Secretary of State. 1852 —John P. Kennedy of Maryland became Secretary of War. .. .United States recognized the independence of Paraguay. 1857 —Gen. Havelock entered Cawnpore .... Massacre at Cawnpore by Nana Sahib. 1862 — James Glaisher reached height of five miles in balloon ascension in England. 1863 — Abolition of the Scheldt dues. 1864 — Battle of Peach Tree Creek.... Taking of Nanking ended the Taiping rebellion in China. 1866—Prussians occupied Frankfort. 1870—France made formal declaration of war against Prussia.. .Franco-Prus-sian war commenced... .Michael Davitt tried for treason-felony. 1873 — Don Carlos re-entered Spain. 1874 — Spain declared in a state of siege. 1878—British, flag hoisted at Cyprus. 1883—“ Gen. Tom Thumb” (C. H. Stratton), famous dwarf, died. 1886 —Gladstone’s cabinet resigned. 1890 — The National line steamer Egypt was burned at sea. 1891 — Riotous miners at Briceville, Tenn., refused to allow convicts to work in the mines... .Destructive hailstorm in South 1893 Great fire in' London; loss, $7,500,000. 1894 — Many negro miners in Alabama killed by strikers.... Legs, the anarchist who shot at Premier Crispi of Italy, sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment.. 1895 — Henry Irving knighted by Queen Victoria. 1896 Trial of Dr. Jameson and his fellow raiders in the Transvaal began in London... .Princess Maud of Wales married to Prince Charles of Denmark, now King Haakon VII. of ■ Norway. 1897 — Statue of Gen. John A. Logan unveiled in Lake Front park, Chicago. 1899 —Strike began on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines.... Gen. Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War, resigned. 1901— Earl Russell sentenced by the British House of Lords to three months’ imprisonment for bigamy. - J 1902 — Sir Henry Irving’s last appearance at the Lyceum theater, London. 1903 Russia refused to receive the Kishineff petition from America. 1905 —Peary sailed from New York, for the north pole.