Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1191—Richard I. defeated the Saracens at Arsouf. 1207—Wallace defeated the English at Cambuskenneth. 1456 —Mohammed 11. repulsed at Belgrade. 1522 —Circumnavigation of the globe completed by the return of .Magellan's ship to Spain. 1544 —Valparaiso, Chili, founded by Pedro de Valdivia. 1547—“ English defeated the Scots at Pinkie. 1565 —French sailed from Port Royal, S. C., against Menendez at St. Augustine, F1a.... .Founding of St. Augustine, Fla. 1.. 1584—Sir Humphrey Gilbert lost at sea. 1608— Capt. John Smith elected president of Virginia colony. 1609 Henry Hudson arrived in New York bay. 1631 —Gustavus defeated Tilly at Leipsic. 1650—Cromwell defeated the Scots at Dunbar. 1683—Jean Baptiste Colbert, celebrated Minister of Louis XIV. of France, died. 1751—New style of calendar adopted in Great Britain. 1755—Exile of Acadians from N ova Scotia announced. • 1760—Montreal capitulated to the British. 1763—Detroit relieved from siege by Indians. 1768—Cyclone at Havana destroyed one thousand lives. 1776 —American colonies first called the “United States” by Congress. > 1781 —Lafayette prevented the retreat of Cornwallis into North Carolina .... New London, Conn., burned by British. 172- -rV ? r» t, newspaper exclusively sot commercial tunics issued at Boston. 1800 —Malta ceded to the British. 1804—United States ship “Intrepid” blown up in Tripoli harbor. 1807 — Copenhagen surrendered to Admiral Gambier and Lord Cathcart. 1812 —French defeated the Russians at battle of Borodino. 1818—James J. Wallack made his first h appearance an the American stage. 1828 —Earl of Dalhousie finished his term of office as governor general of Canada. 1835 —John G. Carlisle, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, born. 1838—Ferdinand I. of Austria .crowned at Milan. 1841—President Tyler vetoed the fiscal bank bill. 1846—John Y. Mason of Virginia became Secretary of the Navy... Elias Howe invented his sewing machine. 1850—House of Representatives passed the fugitive slave bi 11.... New Mexico and Utah territories organized. 1852—Brevet Col. Robert E. Lee made superintendent of the West Point Military academy. 1858—Gold found in Tangier river, Nova Scotia. 1860 — Union force under Grant occupied Paducah, Ky. 1861 — First provincial synod of the Church of England met at Montreal. 1862 — Gen. Lee crossed the Potomac and invaded Maryland. 1865—President Johnson issued his sec- — ond amnesty proclamation. 1870 —French repuglic declared and flight of the Empress Eugenie. 1873 — Great Britain paid the indemnity awarded in the Alabama claims. 1874 — Colorado for the first time went Democratic. 1876—Fire at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, destroyed five hundred houses. 1879 —Massacre of British residents at Canul. , 1884 —Parisians demanded that the government declare war on China. 1886 —Apaches under Chief Geronimo surrendered to Gen. Miles in Arizona. 1891—The new Chilean government recognized by the United States.'... Tennessee Legislature refused to abolish the convict lease system.... Centenary of Meyerbeer celebrated at Berlin.... German government removed the prohibition of the importation of American pork. 1893 President Cleveland opened the Pan-American Medical Congress in Washington. 1894 — Twelve thousand tailors struck in New York City against the task work system. 1895 Attempt made to blow up the Rothschild bank in Paris. 1808— United States commissioners appointed to negotiate a treaty of peace with Spain. ...New Westminster, B. C., nearly destroyed by fire. 1901 —President McKinley shot at the Buffalo exposition.