Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1154—Henry 11. crowned King of Bug* land. 1500 —Columbus arrived a prisoner in Spain. 1562—Huguenots defeated at Dreux. 1686—Sir Edmund Andros, first royal governor of New England, arrived in Boston. ■* 1773—Destruction of cargo of taxed tea in Boston harbor by citizens disguised as Indians, known as the “Boston Tea Party.” j 1775—British Parliament passed an act for confiscating all American vessels and impressing their crews into the British navy. 1780—United States Congress appointed Francis Dana minister to Russia. 1780—Bank of the United States began to discouht. 1793 —City of Toulon retaken by Napoleon from the British. ISO3-=-The United States took possession of Louisiana. .1812 —Bonaparte arrived at Paris from his Russiati campaign. -- 1845—Battle of Moodkee. ISlS—Park theater, New York City, destroyed by fire.... Louis Napoleon took the oath of allegiance and was proclaimed President of the French Republic... .Asiatic cholera appeared among United States troops in Texas. 1851— J. M. W. Turner, eminent English landscape painter,, died in obscurs lodgings in London, under an assumed name. , 1852 — Pegu annexed to the Indian empire. 1859 First train crossed the Victoria bridge at Montreal. 1860— The passport system abolished in France by Napoleon 111 South African Republic established, Paul Kruger president. 1861— Federals attempted to blockade the channel of Charleston harbor. .1863 —Gen. Grant established his headquarters at Nashville. 1804—Gen. Hardee escaped from Savan- » nah with 15,000 troops.... President Lincoln called for 300,000 volunteers. ISGs—Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution proclaimed. 1874 —Italian parliament voted an annuity to Garibaldi..... Emigrant ship Cospatriok burned at sea, with lost of 465 lives. IS76—All awards made in payment of the Alabama claims, leaving surplus of about $8,000,000. ISB3—Cantilever bridge at Niagara Fails , opened for traffic. 1884 — -World’s industrial cotton exposition opened in New Orleans. 1885 — House of Representatives passed tlie presidential succession bill. 1891—Violent earthquake in Sicily. - 1894—War between China and Japan declared ended. 1897—William Terriss, eminent English actor, assassinated. TS99 —House of passed the currency bill. 1900—Martial law proclaimed in Cape - Colony.. . .Gen. Leonard Wood assumed office as governor general of Cuba. 1903—United States Senate passed Cuban reciprocity bill.