Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1492—Columbus arrived at Hayti and learned that the colony left there had perished. 1499 —Perkin Warbeck, who styled himself Richard TV., King of England, executed. ' ’ 1518—-Cortez sailed from Cuba to captnre Maxico. . 1540 —De Soto left the coast and began this inland march. 1542—English defeated the Scots at Solway Moss 1578—Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s first expedition sailed to found a colony in America. 1626 —St. Peter’s, Rome, dedicated by Pope Urban VIII. 1633 —Ships Ark and Dove sailed from England, with 200 persons to found a colony in Maryland. 1643—Birth of La Salle, the explorer of the Mississippi valley. 1683—Boundary line agreed upon by New York affa"osHHSt?tlCllt. 1755 —Sevcge earthquake shocks felt along the eastern coast of North America. 1758 —Fort Duquesne renamed Pittsburg by the English. 1775 American force took and fortified Cobble Hill, near Boston 1776 British uafder Cornwallis crossed the Hudson to attack Fort Lee. 1794—Jay’s treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed. 1796—French under Bonaparte defeated the Austirans at Areola.... Much property destroyed by tire in Savannah, Ga. 1801—The Pillory used in Boston for the last'Time. 1816—A Philadelphia theater lighted by gas, first in the country. 1832 —Eruption of Mt. Etna; town of Bronte destroyed. 1837 —Montreal used gas for illuminating purposes for the first time. 1851 — Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover mnd Duke mLCumberiand,-died. 1852 — Napoleon 111. elected Emperor of the French. 1860 —Legislature of Georgia voted sl,000,000 -terarm the State. 1863—Battles before Chattanooga, Tenn., began.... The National Soldiers’ cemetery at Gettysburg dedicated. 1867—Committee on the House reported in favor of the impeachment of President Johnson 1871—The Grand Duke Alexis arrived at New York 1874—British immigrant ship Oosrpalrick burned at sea, with loss of 473 lives. 1877—The Halifax fishery commission, under treaty of Washington, rendered its decision. 1883—Standard time adopted throughout Canada. 1889 —Remarkable cliff dwellings discovered in Colorado. 1889— Alaska first demanded representation in Congress. 1890 — Indian outbreak near Pine Ridge, South Dakota... .Battleship Maine launched ait the Brooklyn navy yard.