Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1030—Olaf defeated by the Swedes at ■Stricklestadt. U39—Portuguese defeated the Moora at Ourique. Ms3—Hotspur ( Sir Henry Percvl killed at the battle of Shrewsbury. 1411—Lord of the Isles defeated at Haria w, .j 1628 Kirke defeated Roquemont in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. L 1629 Kirke defeated De Caen near Malbaie. 1637—800 k of Canons and Common Prayer issued for Scotland. 1663 —Baron D’Avaugour, governor of New France, resigtoed. 1701—-Detroit founded by Cadillac. 1704—Gibraltar captured by combined English and Dutch force. 1759 —Fort Niagara surrendered to tha British. 1778 —French fleet arrived at Newport to co-operate with Washington. 1783—Saxony, Brandenburg and Hanover formed the German alliance. - ' 1801 —First road tramway opened in England. 1803— Rising in Ireland under Emmet. 1804 — Georges and his fellow conspirators guillotined at Paris for conspiracy against Bonaparte. 1814 —Americans defeated at Lundy’a Lane; I 1828 —Silistria invested by the Russians. 1843—Abel P. Upshur of Virginia became Secretary of Bftite. 1847 —Salt .Lake City founded by the Mormons. 1851 —Window tax abolished in England. 1854—The Danish government proclaimed a new monarchical constitution .... Allied French and English squadron sailed for Honolulu to destroy the Russian possessions in Kamchatka. 1858—Third attempt to lay Atlantic cable begun in mid-ocean... .Jews’ relief act passed by the British Parliament. 1864 — Dr. Livingstone returned from his. expedition in Africa. 1865 Great Britain started to lay the second Atlantic cable between America and Europe. 1868 — Territory of Wyoming formed from Dakota, Utah and Idaho. 1869 Irish Church Disestablishment act received the royal assent. 1870 — Michael Davitt tried for treason- - felony. 1873 France end England signed a treaty of commerce. 1874 — Twenty-five persons killed by cloudburst at Eureka, Nevada. 1883 — Capt. Webb drowned while attempting to swim the rapids of Niagara. 1884 — Congressman William Wirt Culbertson of Kentucky attempted to commit suicide in a Washington (D. C.) hotel. 1885 — Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria, married to Prince Henry of Battenberg. 1886— Lord Salisbury became premier of Great Britain. 1890 — A part of Lawrence, Mass., wrecked by a cyclone. 1891 — France annexed Tahiti. 1894 William E. Mason defeated In effort to secure nomination as candidate for United States Senator from Republican convention of Illinois. 1895 — Henry Irving knighted by Queen Victoria. 1899 Final sitting of the first peace conference at The Hague. 1900 — King Humbert of Italy assassinated at Monza. 1901 — Earl Russell sentenced by the British House of Lords to three months? imprisonment for bigamy.