Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1138—Scots defeated at the battle of the Standard. . 1385—Portuguese defeated the Spaniards at Aljubarrota. 1433 —Death of John I. of Portugal. 1456—Hunyady Janos, one of the greatest war captains of his age, died. 1553 —John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, beheaded in the Tower. 1628—George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, assassinated by John Felton. 1642 —Charles I. set up his standard at -Nottingham. _______ 1648 —Prince of Conde victorious over Archduke Leopold at battle of Lens. 1672 —Massacre of the Brothers De Witt at The Hague. 1716 —Battle of Saragossa. 1750 —Oswego taken by Montcalm.... , Letizia Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon, born at Ajaccio, Corsica. 1767 —Earthquake on the island of Martinique killed 15,000 persons. 1776—Maryland adopted a State consti- . tution. -v— 7 1784 —First mail coach in England left ——London for Bristol. 1793 —Pondicherry taken by the English. 1808—British and Spanish forces defeated the French at battle of Viaiera. ■ — 1800—French defeated the Spanish at battle of Almonacid. 1814 —Washington, D. C., attacked and taken by the British. 1818 —The Savannah, the first steamer to cross the Atlantic, was launched. 1833—Irish Church Temporalities act passed. 1835 —The Earl of Gosford sworn in aa Governor of Canada. 1841—British expedition commenced the ascent of the Niger river. 1844 —Victory of the French over the Moors at Isly. 1846 —Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” flfet performed'at Birmingham, England.... Capture of Santa Fe by Americans and annexation of New Mexico to United States. 1848 — The territory of Oregon organized. 1849 — 'Surrender of Venice to the Austrians. 1851 —America cup won by American yacht at Cowes, England. 1856 — First petroleum well opened at Titusville, Pa. 1857 — The new Louvre, Paris, inaugurated with great ceremony by Napoleon 111. 1858— The Danubian principalities constituted. 1862-r-Garibaldi occupied Catania. 1864—Surrender of Fort Morgan, Alabama. 1866—Treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia signed at Prague. 1873—Cholera appeared in Columbus, O. 1875—Capt, Webb, on a second trial, swam across the English channel. 1884 —French force bombarded Foochow, China. 1881 —Sixty-two persons killed by collapse of a building in Park place, New York. —-::r_.... 1892 — President Harrison issued a proclamation retaliatory upon Canada, by establishing tolls on Sault Ste. Marie canal. 1893 Destructive storm along the Atlantic coast of North America. 1896 The rebellious Matabeles in South Africa submitted to the British. 1897 — President Faure of France visited the Czar at St. Petersburg. 1898— The United States and Canadian joint high commission met at Quebec. 1899 — Anti-government riots and bloodshed in Paris. 1900 — Relief of Pekin by the Allies.... Fatal race riots in Akron, Ohio. 1903 —The Humbert lamily convicted of swindling in Paris.. .Russian squadron withdrawn from Turkish waters. 1905 Lord Curzon resigned the viceroyship of India. 1906 Insurrectionary movements in Cuba began.... President Roosevelt ordered a simplified form of spelling in the government printing office.