Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1321 —City of Mexico taken by Cortez. 1526—Turks defeated Hungarians at Mohacz. 1034 —Swedes defeated at Nordlingem--1660 Milton's works burnt by the hangman Marquis de Feuquieres as—mumed office as Viceroy of New France. .. 1661 Baron D’Avaugour took office as governor of Canada. 1664—New Amsterdam surrendered to the English and became New York. 1751—The city of Arcot, India, taken by Lord Clive. 1755—Stonington, Conn., attacked by the British. 1776—Americans defeated by the British at battle of Long Island. 1781 — French fleet arrived in Chesapeake bay to help tJuwAmericans. 1782 Preliminary treaty between England and the United States signed at Paris... .Nine hundred persons lost in the sinking of the “Royal George” at Portsmouth. 1783 — First ascent of a balloon filled with hydrogen, at Paris. 1791—George Hammond, first minister from Great Britain, received President Washington. 1813 —Creek Indians massacred defenders of Fort Mins, in Alabama. 1816—British fleet bombarded Algiers. 1833—Act for the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonies received the royal assent. 1835—The “Beaver/* first steam vessel to ply on the Pacific ocean, left England for Fort Vancouver. 1842—Congress changed the beginning of the fiscal year from Jan. 1 to July 1. 1852 —Samuel D. Hubbard of Connecticut became postmaster general of the United States. 1859 —Leigh Hunt, poet and essayist, died.

1861 — Gen. Fremont proclainted martial law in Missouri. 1862 — Forts Hatteras and Clark, on tha North Carolina coast, taken By Union f orces.... First train run on the Underground railway In London .... Garibaldi defeated and taken prisoner at battle, of Aspromonto, Naples. 1864—Gen. Sheridan resumed offensive operations in the Shenahdoah valley ....Gen. McClellan nominated for > President by Democratic national convention at Chicago... .Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia." 1869 First monument erected to heroes of the Confederacy unveiled at Griffin, Ga.

1879 — Cetewayo, King of Zululand, captured by the British. 1880 — Gen. Roberts relieved Kandahar. 1881 — Over 200 lives lost in the wreck of the “Teuton,” bound from Cape Town to Natal. 1885— First cable road began operations in New York City. 1886— Sixty-ieven persons killed in earthquake at Charleston, S. C. 1891 — Santiago taken by insurgent Chileans.... Balmaceda’s army finally defeated at Vina del Mar, Chile ....Fifty persons killed and injured in wreck on the Western North Carolina railroad. 1892 Metropolitan Opera House, New York, almost wholly destroyed by fire. 1893 — House of Representatives voted to repeal the silvei-purchasing clause of I the Sherman act, rejecting all fres coinage amendments. 1 1896 —Fresh outbreak of the rebellion I against Spanish rule in'the Philip- ! pines. 1902 —Violent eruption of Mont Pelee. 1 1906—Great reception in New York in honor of William J. Bryan on his return from a trip around the world.