Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1533—Henry VIII. privately married to Ann Boleyn at Whitehall. 1571—Queen Elizabeth opeded the first Royal Exchange in London. 1786 —Virginia invited the States to • general conference to form a less restricted constitution. 1794—William Bradford of Pennsylvania became Attorney General of United States, 1807 —Congress officially informed of Aaron Burr’s conspiracy. 1814 — Pope Pius Vil. dismissed from Fontainbleau. 1815— Thanksgiving in New Orleans over Gen. Jackson’s victory. 1820—Peru evacuated by the Spanish. 1832 —Mazzini founded “Young Italy”... W. L. Marcy of New York declared in the Senate, “To the victors belong the spoils." 1834—St. Louis Castle, at Quebec,, destroyed by fire. 1845—Congress fixed the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as tbe time for presidential election*. 1854—Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois i*trodiired the Kansas-Nebraska bill ia the Senate. 1850—Steamer Paeifie, with 186 pa—a gers, left Liverpool for New York and was never heard of again. 1865 — Library of the Smithsonian lastitution at Washington burned. 1866 At his own request, Gen. Hood relieved of his command. 1870 — Prince Arthur, third son of Queea Victoria, arrived in New York. 1871 — Statue of Abraham Lincoln aft Washington nnveiled. 1879—British entered Zululand and defeated the natives... .Zulus defeated the British at Isandula. 1881 — Egyptian obelisk placed in Central Park, New York. 1882— Charles A. Gnitean, the asaasaia of President Garfield, sentenced te - death. , -• 1894—Midwinter fair opened at Sea Francisco. 1890 —Fifty-five lives lost in colliery aa> plosion in South Wales. 1901 —Accession of King Edward VIL 1903 —German ships bombarded Sea Carlos over tbe Venezuelan affair. 1905 Samuel H. Piles elected United States Senator from Washington.... Atlantic coast swept by a terrific blizzard. 1906 Steamer Valencia wrecked off Vam couver island, with loas of 117 live*.