Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1214—French defeated the Germans at Bouvines. 1265—Simon de Montfort killed at the battle of Evesham. 1291-^-Founding of the Swiss Confederation. 1498 —Columbus discovered Trinidad. 1554—Florentines defeated the French at Marciano. 1819—House of Burgesses, first popular legislative assembly in America, met at Jamestown, Va. 1643 Cromwell victorious at Gains- — —borttajii; —— ■■ 1644 Gonde victor at Friodburg. I(s67—Ending of the war between France and Great Britain. 1675 —Turenne killed at Sassbach. 1685—Marquis de Dononville entered on his duties of Governor of Canada. 1689 —'Battle of Killiecrankie. 1694 —Bank of ifngland chartered. 1757-*-French and Indians besieged Fort William Henry, in New York. 1759—Montcalm repulsed Wolfe in the latter’s attack on Quebec. 1772—First partition of Poland. 1775—Continental congress adopted articles of war. 1777 —Lafayette made a major general in the American army. .. 1780 —Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold assumed command at West Point... .Col. Sumter repulsed by British at Rocky Mount, S. C. < 1794—Fa1l of Robespierre and end of the Reign of Terror. ■ 1799 —Ferdinand LY. of Naples restored. 1804 — American naval force bombarded Tripoli. 1805 — Francis I. of Austria, declared war against France. 1809 —Battle of Talavera. 1813 —Plattsburg, N. Y., taken by the British. 1816—First State election held in Indiana. 1818 —Charles, Duke of Richmond, be"came Governor of Canada. 1830 — Paris declared in a state of siege. 1831 — London bridge inaugurated by William IV. 1834 —Slavery ceased throughout the British possessions. 1847 — Telegraphic service established between Toronto, Buffalo and Montreal. 1848— Woman’s rights convention at Rochester put forward a claim for suffrage. 1854 —Capt. U. S. Grant resigned his commission in the arpiy. 1858—The Victoria Nyanza discovered ——by Capt. Speke. ISG3 —Battle of Winchester, Va. 1864 —Chambersburg, Pa., burned by the Confederates.... Gen. Sherman began the siege of Atlanta.... Battle of Mobile Bay. 1866 —Atlantic telegraph cable completed. 1876 —Colorado admitted to the Union. ISS9 —Princess Louise of Wales married to the Duke of Fife. 1890—Mississippi constitutional convention met at Jackson. 1892—Congress appropriated $2,500,000 to be. coined into half dollars as memorials of the World’s Columbian exposition. 1894 —War declared between Japan and China. 1896 —Forty-seven persons killed in railroad disaster near Atlantic... City, N. J. '•. 1807 —Tidal wave caused great destruction of lives and property in Japan. 1900—General strike of Paris cab drivers. 1903 —Andrew Carnegie gave $2,500,000 to his native town of Dunfermline, Scotland. 1905—The Japanese eaptured the Island of Saghalin.