Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1066 —Norwegians defeated the English at Fulford. 1198 —Richard I. defeated the French at the battle of Gisors. 1327—Edward- 11. of England’ murdered in Berkeley Castle. 1356 —English defeated the French at the battle of Poitiers. 1415—Owen Glendower,* the Welsh patriot, died at Monnington. 1628—John Rpdicott’s colony arrived at ~ Salem, Mass. 1630—Boston, formerly Trimountain, Mass., named. .. 1653—New England colonists declared war against the Niantick Indians. 1665—The great plague of London reached its-height, ———— 1675 —Bloody Brook massacre at Deerfield, Mass. 1697 —King William’s war ended by the treaty of Ryswick. 1710—Expedition the French sailed from Boston for Port Royal. 1714 —George I. landed in England. 1745—Battle of Prestonpans between the Royal troops and the Jacobites. 1747 —Marquis de Beauharnais ended his twenty-one year term as governor of Canada. 1759—Quebec capitulated to the British. 1762 —St. John's, Newfoundland, retaken fssm the French by theJßritish. 1776 — The first Trinity church, New York, destroyed by fire. Built in 1698. 1777 — Continental Congress left Philadelphia on the approach of the British. .. .British victorious at battle of Saratoga... .British defeated the Americans at Pgoli, Pa. 1792—Meeting of the first Parliament of upper Canada.

1793 —George Washington laid the corner stone of the national capitol at Washington. 1801 —Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, hanged for treason. 1821 —Central American States declared their independence. 1823 —Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey became Secretary of the Navy. 1838 —Opening of the London and Birmingham railway... .Anti Corn Law League formed at Manchaster, England.

1841 —Railway opened between London and Brighton. 1847 —Shakspeare’s house, Stratford-on Avon, bought foft the British nation. 1850 —President Fillmore Bigned the fugitive slave law. 1854—Allies defeated the Russians at the battle of Alma. 1856—The last national convention of the Whigs met at Baltimore.

1857 —Massacre at Mountain Meadow, Utah.. . .Delhi captured by the British.

1860—The American tour of the Prince of Wales began at Detroit ISOI New Orleans banks suspended specie payment. 1562 Battle of Antietam ended". 1563 Gen. Bragg began the siege of Chattanooga.... First day of the battle of Chickamauga. 1564 Sheridan victorious at battle of Winchester... .Gen. Fremont withdrew as a candidate for President.

1868—Revolution in Spain commenced. 1870 — The Germans invested Paris. 1871— Lincoln’s body removed to its final resting place at Springfield, 111. 1873 —Financial panic precipitated by the suspension of Jay Cook & Co. 1881 —Chester A. took the oath as successor to President Garfield. 1891 —The St. Clair tunnel under the Detroit riv-er opened to traffic. 1894 — Chinese defeated with heavy loss at battle of Ping Yang. Korea. 1895 Peary Arctic relief expedition left St. John’s, N. F., on return home. 1898 —Spanish forces began the evacuation of Porto Rico.... French minister of war ordered the prosecution of Gql. Picquart, in connection with the Dreyfus case. IS99 —Anti-trust conference at Chicago ended.